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Authors: Lucy Rose: Here's the Thing About Me
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little peeling where I picked at it when I was supposed to be taking a nap, I feel fond of that room.
Our Washington, D.C., house is a city house. Ithas a little white porch with a swing big enough for two people and a pig-shaped weather vane on the roof and no garage because when you live in the city you can walk to a lot of places and take the subway which is called the Metro. I am not one who likes waiting around for rides but I do think it's odd not having a car which we don't because my mom thinks they are expensive and not necessary. Plus, she says, if we need to drive someplace far away we can always borrow my grandparents' station wagon.
Our city backyard is puny but it has a blackberry bush and last month when it was August we got enough of those berries to make one pie big enough for two people and when it was cooked my mom and I sat on the swing and ate it all up.
At my new house I got to pick the color for my room and I picked red which my mother and my grandmother said would drive me crazy but doesn't. Plus it's original and according to my grandfather I am an original thinker.
When I talked to my dad on the phone yesterday, I told him what my grandfather said and my father told me, “I's true, Lucy Rose. You have a one-of-a-kindmind” That is a good compliment, I think.
It's because of my original thinking that I got this book that I am writing in right now. Yesterday afternoon Pop came in from a walk and gave me a little bag from the Trover Shop and inside it was this book that is red on the cover and white on the inside and on the edge is a loop that has a golden pen in it. I think most people who would get a book like this would be at least twenty years old and probably in college. Pop told me that I should write in my red book whenever I think of something that is important or funny which I do a lot of the time.
My grandparents live three blocks away from me in a three-story-tall house that my grandfather has lived in since he was born which was an extremely long time ago. It has NINE porches, some of them on the second floor that you can only get on if you climb out of the window which is something I get to do a lot because my grandmother is on a campaign against pigeons and she sends me out to stomp around and scare them away.
There are some things I like about this new neighborhood. One is that it doesn't feel brand-new on account of I've been here plenty of times with my mom and dad to visit my grandparents. My dad says he will still come to Washington but mostly it will be to visit me.
Another good thing about this neighborhood is that it has sidewalks and you can walk to the Capitol of the United States of America which is the biggest, fanciest building ever. You can walk to the Supreme Court which has an extremely lot of steps and you can walk to Grubb's drugstore and buy Twizzlers and talk to Eddie the pharmacist which I like to do because every time he sees me he says, “What's shakin', Lucy Rose?”
And I say, “I am!” And then I shake all over like I'm going frantic.
Then Eddie says, “You've got more wiggle than a bowl full of Jell-O, Lucy Rose,” which makes me crack up. Eddie has been funny his whole life. I know this because my mom and her sisters, who have the names of Aunt Marguerite and Aunt Pansy, used to work at Grubb's when they were teenagers and Grubb's had a soda fountain. It doesn't anymore because Eddie needed the space for the Beauty Aids counter.
September 15
The thing about original thinkers is that they are not always so great in school but in a lot of ways I am. Considering I am in the third grade, I am excellent at drawing which is the same as my mother and fine at language arts and pretty good at making multiples with dried beans. I play the cello because I am extremely musical which is like my dad who was a French horn player when he was in his high school marching band and it was the best band in the whole state of Michigan. I am not kidding. They won a
Our Washington, D.C., house is a city house. Ithas a little white porch with a swing big enough for two people and a pig-shaped weather vane on the roof and no garage because when you live in the city you can walk to a lot of places and take the subway which is called the Metro. I am not one who likes waiting around for rides but I do think it's odd not having a car which we don't because my mom thinks they are expensive and not necessary. Plus, she says, if we need to drive someplace far away we can always borrow my grandparents' station wagon.
Our city backyard is puny but it has a blackberry bush and last month when it was August we got enough of those berries to make one pie big enough for two people and when it was cooked my mom and I sat on the swing and ate it all up.
At my new house I got to pick the color for my room and I picked red which my mother and my grandmother said would drive me crazy but doesn't. Plus it's original and according to my grandfather I am an original thinker.
When I talked to my dad on the phone yesterday, I told him what my grandfather said and my father told me, “I's true, Lucy Rose. You have a one-of-a-kindmind” That is a good compliment, I think.
It's because of my original thinking that I got this book that I am writing in right now. Yesterday afternoon Pop came in from a walk and gave me a little bag from the Trover Shop and inside it was this book that is red on the cover and white on the inside and on the edge is a loop that has a golden pen in it. I think most people who would get a book like this would be at least twenty years old and probably in college. Pop told me that I should write in my red book whenever I think of something that is important or funny which I do a lot of the time.
My grandparents live three blocks away from me in a three-story-tall house that my grandfather has lived in since he was born which was an extremely long time ago. It has NINE porches, some of them on the second floor that you can only get on if you climb out of the window which is something I get to do a lot because my grandmother is on a campaign against pigeons and she sends me out to stomp around and scare them away.
There are some things I like about this new neighborhood. One is that it doesn't feel brand-new on account of I've been here plenty of times with my mom and dad to visit my grandparents. My dad says he will still come to Washington but mostly it will be to visit me.
Another good thing about this neighborhood is that it has sidewalks and you can walk to the Capitol of the United States of America which is the biggest, fanciest building ever. You can walk to the Supreme Court which has an extremely lot of steps and you can walk to Grubb's drugstore and buy Twizzlers and talk to Eddie the pharmacist which I like to do because every time he sees me he says, “What's shakin', Lucy Rose?”
And I say, “I am!” And then I shake all over like I'm going frantic.
Then Eddie says, “You've got more wiggle than a bowl full of Jell-O, Lucy Rose,” which makes me crack up. Eddie has been funny his whole life. I know this because my mom and her sisters, who have the names of Aunt Marguerite and Aunt Pansy, used to work at Grubb's when they were teenagers and Grubb's had a soda fountain. It doesn't anymore because Eddie needed the space for the Beauty Aids counter.
September 15
The thing about original thinkers is that they are not always so great in school but in a lot of ways I am. Considering I am in the third grade, I am excellent at drawing which is the same as my mother and fine at language arts and pretty good at making multiples with dried beans. I play the cello because I am extremely musical which is like my dad who was a French horn player when he was in his high school marching band and it was the best band in the whole state of Michigan. I am not kidding. They won a
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