FW: Children

---------------------- Forwarded by Judy Hernandez/HOU/ECT on 10/04/2000
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Angela Barnett
10/03/2000 01:54 PM
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Subject: FW: Children

---------------------- Forwarded by Angela Barnett/HOU/ECT on 10/03/2000
01:49 PM ---------------------------

"Curley, Kim" <KCurley@tmh.tmc.edu< on 10/03/2000 01:00:38 PM
To: "'ANGELA.BARNETT@ENRON.COM'" <ANGELA.BARNETT@ENRON.COM<
cc:
Subject: FW: Children

< -----Original Message-----
< From: loretta-henry@reliantenergy.com
< [SMTP:loretta-henry@reliantenergy.com]
< Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2000 12:51 PM
< To: Nikki V Carter; Curley, Kim; R Fitzgerald;
< Shannon_Henderson@mail.bankone.com
< Subject: Children
<
< To my child(ren).....
<
< Just for the morning, I am going to smile
< when I see your face
< and laugh when I feel like crying.
<
< Just for this morning, I will let you
< choose what you want to wear,
< and smile and say how perfect it is.
<
< Just for this morning, I am going to step
< over the laundry, and pick you up
< and take you to the park to play.
<
< Just for this morning, I will leave the
< dishes in the sink, and let you
< teach me how to put that puzzle of yours together.
<
< Just for this afternoon, I will unplug the
< telephone and keep the computer off,
< and sit with you in the backyard and
< blow bubbles.
<
< Just for this afternoon, I will not yell
< once, not even a tiny grumble when you scream
< and whine for the ice cream truck, and I will buy
< you one if he comes by.
<
< Just for this afternoon, I won't worry
< about what you are going to
< be when you grow up, or second guess every decision
< I have made where you are concerned.
<
< Just for this afternoon, I will let you
< help me bake cookies, and I won't
< stand over you trying to fix them.
<
< Just for this afternoon, I will take us to
< Mc Donald's and buy us both a
< Happy Meal so you can have both toys.
<
< Just for this evening, I will hold you in
< my arms and tell you a story about
< how you were born and how much I love you.
<
< Just for this evening, I will let you
< splash in the tub and not get angry.
<
< Just for this evening, I will let you stay
< up late while we sit on the porch
< and count all the stars.
<
< Just for this evening, I will snuggle
< beside you for hours, and miss
< my favorite TV shows.
<
< Just for this evening when I run my finger
< through your hair as you pray,
< I will simply be grateful that God has
< given me the greatest gift
< ever given.
<
< I will think about the mothers and fathers who are
< searching for their missing children,
< the mothers and fathers who are visiting their
< children's graves instead of their bedrooms,
< and mothers and fathers who are in
< hospital rooms watching their children suffer senselessly,
< and screaming inside they can't handle it anymore.
<
< And when I kiss you goodnight I will hold
< you a little tighter, a little longer. It is then,
< that I will thank God for you, and ask him for
< nothing, except one more day.............
<
< Please pass this on to other mothers and fathers. I
< think that we get too involved in our daily routines that we tend
< to forget what great gifts our children really are.
<