writing email

on our drive back to ohio madelyn was writing in a notepad matt had given her (i didn't realize that she had a pen back there too...).  she told me that she had been practicing her letters and numbers and now she could write small like me.  she had asked me once how i wrote so small and i told her that it took practice and that she could do it some day too.  then she told me that she was "writing an email because that is what you always do."  it hurt a little.  i do tell her that i have to "write one more email" more than i would like.  but now thinking back, she was telling me that she was writing an email as a joy, not as a 'wait until i am done' sort of task.  mommy guilt over.  love.