some truths are hard to swallow

Friday, January 28th, 2011 at 4:54 pm

I couldn’t remember if it was embarass or embarrass. I’m a slow speller lately.

Gabe was sitting beside me watching as I tapped out a post because it had to do with him. He found what I was writing to be quite funny.
When I said outloud that I thought my spelling of embarrass could be wrong the ten year old looked at me funny.

As I so frequently do, I clicked my convenient little spell checker button and found that not only had I spelled embarrass wrong, but two other words also needed correcting.

Mom! You spell words wrong sometimes?

Of course. What, do you think I had memorized the entire dictionary or something?

His reply had a ring of disappointment in it. He shrugged and said, I just thought you had.

And so starts the growing pains that come with the discovery that sometimes your parents use that spell check button.