Spellcheck

I'm not much of a speller.  I'm very thankful for spellcheck and use it often.  The squiggly line underneath the word spellcheck is reminding me that I need to run the spellcheck.  I'm thinking it is not a word.
I've been known to change what I'm going to write in a handwritten note (which I love to do!) because I'm not sure of the spelling of a word.  I can tell you how to spell develop.  It doesn't have an "e" on the end of it.  I discovered this my senior year in high school when Mr. Mulder made me write it one hundred times.  I am aware now.  I also didn't know how to spell "who" in third grade.  Not one friend would tell me and I had to go and ask Mrs. Pothoven.  (Her name has a red squiggly line.)  Seriously--the English (or as Noel says Anglish) language has so many crazy ways to spell things.  "Who" begins with an "hhhh" sound.

Recently, I've developed (an "e" in this one!) another reason to dislike spelling.  My children.  I love my children, but the oldest are into spelling.  That isn't true.  They are into writing and can not spell!  I do not like "Mom, how do you spell Bryce?  Mom, how do you spell from?  Mom, how do you spell I hope you are having a good day today?"  Drives me crazy.  Plus, they don't want me to write it so they can copy it.  They want me to spell it letter by letter.  I know this is good.  I know I should be happy that they have an interest in letters and in sounding things out.  I also know that I don't like standing in the kitchen slowly saying letters, repeating them over and over, and messing it up because they didn't hear me or I didn't hear them.  Suddenly  "love" is spelled lovvve.  One of the many blessings of my children learning Mandarin in school is that they can't ask me how to write anything!  I haven't a clue and can announce that with a certain amount of pride.