While I was patiently waiting in my car I was listening to music with my baby singing and dancing. I was waiting about 15 minutes till my mom finally noticed I was outside waiting she was busy on the phone talking with her long time ago best friend.
The Impossible Knife of Memory is a modern Young Adult fiction novel. It brings to light issues such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, substance abuse and family troubles. It tells the story of a father and daughter who have been on the road for years, running from their memories. They try to settle down so Hayley can finish her senior year at High School, but their past starts catching up on both of them.
It was a week before my dad told my brother and I than we were going to go fishing with one of his friends. I was like ok it’s just going to be another day of fishing were we only catch about to fish every day. So we went on our day and finally told us something that I thought we would never hear “ Boys we’re going to Nebraska.” “ Why are we going there.” I said “ Because one of my friends invited me to go fishing with him, and he wanted me to bring you guys along.”
when we got there she gave us hugs and we went inside we mostly watched movies sitting on the couch together. now remember. there were 7 people on one couch. of course it was crowded there were people sitting on the arms of the couch and on each others laps and stuff, but it was still fun after a while we left the house going to the mall which was maybe an hour walk from the house on the hill. we did a lot of walking since we didn't drive cars we rode bikes and skateboards or walked.
Next, a couple of days my Stepbrothers came over and just hung out and ate dinner with us. One day my Stepbrothers came over and surprised me with going to a Sports Arena to go play games and go play Laser Tag together. I thought that the Laser Tag was really fun and easy because the other team was all little kids and the team that I was on was all big kids. My little sister had fun too. She brought her friend to play in a play area and also played many games too.
Everybody was coming at 12:00, because we were gunna start eating dinner at 3. As we were getting ready, cleaning the house, cooking the food, it turned 12:00 and we heard a knock on our door. I ran over, opened it, and it was my friend Kasey. A little bit later everybody was their, having fun.
The next day we were going to Hershey park, so my mom said go to sleep early. I said no, I’ll wake up fine tomorrow! Which I did, but I was so tired. So once we were up we needed to call our other family to say what house were going to meet at. My parents then said were going to meet at my
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Then the next day my Nana came to celebrate my 10th birthday. I got a crossword word puzzle book with 50 dollars in it which I thought was a lot. We had pizza, wings, celery sticks and soda from Rudinos with a homemade yellow cake with chocolate frosting and vanilla ice
Me and one of my friends were getting ready for a huge day. We had this super awesome idea to go to Lagoon for the whole day. Opening to closing. We had packed lunches and everything. Right before we were about to leave my house to head to lagoon, my mom asked if she could talk to me.
he wuz comin’ so I wasn’t surprised. He seemed puzzled ‘cause he didn’t know why I wuz not surprised, but I almost hugged him and cried out loud. He wuz glad to see me, so he didn’t wanted to leave me
The next day we woke up bright and early. Today we were going to the outlet mall. Macy and I had so much fun together and doing what we do best, shopping. After the mall we were craving something sweet. We treated ourselves to ice cream.
When we got to our Grandparent’s house, my mom’s family side, in Watertown we had supper and went to church at 7:00. The church was packed so we had to sit in the balcony, and the balcony is cool because it sort of wraps around the top. When we got home we relaxed and just hung out. The next morning I woke up late, and my
After dinner, we all got back int he car and started driving back home. We started singing along to songs on the radio. It was a long drive home, and we all enjoyed the whole ride. Katy Perry 's newest song at the time, "California Girls" was playing on the radio, and my aunt was trying to teach me the words. We were all so happy that day.
We were invited to a friends going away party that day, so we went. While we were there, the atmosphere was so exciting; everyone was laughing, smiling, making new friends, and just having a good time all around. My friend had invited my brother and I to go outside and play on the swings and we did. We challenged each other to see who could go the highest and talked for a little bit, until I felt a buzz in the back pocket of my jeans. It was my phone, so I pulled it out to see who was ringing me.