My story!

The Pen Pals

"Dear Rachel, How are you doing? I am good…" Violet read out loud the letter that she was writing to her pen pal, Rachel. “I hope she gets this soon! I love to get letters back from her, but she has to get this one first!"

"Oh, Violet, dear, don’t worry. You will get something from one of your four pen pals soon I am sure," Violet's mother said as she walked into Violet’s room.

"Oh, I am sure I will, too, but I’m just not very patient, am I?" Violet said with a big smile.

"Well, you do need to realize that three of your pen pals live across the Atlantic Ocean and only one here in America."

"Yes, you’re right. I just enjoy getting things from them like Elsie my sister enjoys getting things from her friends in Arkansas.”

"I understand, dear. Well, I need to get supper on,” Violet’s mother said.

"Alright. I’ll go and put this out in the mailbox and come in and help you."

"Good girl!"
The letter
Later that evening after Violet's father went out to get the mail, he hollered, “Elsie, you got something from your friend!"

"Oh, yes! I’ve been expecting something!" Elsie said.

"Oh, joy! Is that all that’s in the mail?" Violet asked.

"No, there are some bills and, oh, what’s this? Something from Magdel!"

"You must be joking, Dad," Violet said in surprise.

"I’m not. Here it is," and with that Violet's dad put a letter down in front of her that had her name on it.

"Oh, you’re right!"

Violet ran to her room, plopped down in her bean bag, and read the letter. Then she went right to work on writing Magdel.
Still no letter
The next two weeks went by and Violet hadn’t received anything from any of her pen pals. She was very frustrated. "Mom, I haven’t received anything for two weeks," Violet complained to her mother on a bright sunny morning in March.

"Violet, you must be patient. You need some sun. Why don't you get your jacket and go outside with Elsie?"

"Oh, alright," Violet said as she went to the closet. As Violet went out she saw Elsie reading another letter. “Oh great, Elsie got another letter from her friends.”

Elsie, seeing the expression on her sister's face, said, "Sister, you always must remember what mother says. Three of your pen pals live far away and only one lives in America.”

"Yes, I know. Now please leave me alone. I’m going for a walk."

“Violet, let me come with you. I could knock some sense into my cute little sis.”

“Alright, you may come. But don’t start yelling at me, k?”

“I won’t yell at you!”

The talk from her sister
“Violet, you need to take this advice and think about it, okay?”

“Yeah, yeah, I’ll think about it.”

“Rachel is in Mongolia, and Magdel and Joreth are in South Africa. They may not write back to you as soon as they get a letter like you do. You run to your room and start writing them back as soon as you’ve read the letter. They probably read your letter and then write a letter to you a little later. Do you get it now?”

Violet stopped walking and turned to her big sister and said, “I realize that. It’s just been hard. You get a letter every week from your friends and I don’t.”

“My friends write a lot. They will sit down and write as soon as they get a letter. At least it seems like it. Don’t worry, girl. You will get a letter - maybe just not as soon as I get letters from my girlfriends. Oh, I think you’ll survive! You do get letters pretty often from Leanna in Ohio, by the way!”

“I know I’ll survive! You might just have to live with a few complaints.”

“Oh, I don’t mind! Just not all the time, okay?”

“Okay!” Violet said as she hugged her sister.

“That’s good. Well, sis, I think you have learned your patience lesson.”

“You do? That’s good. Maybe I’ll understand that a little better now. Love you, Elsie!”

“Love you, too, Violet!”
She decides
“Mom, I’ve decided to just send letters of encouragement and be a good friend. Even if they do not reply as quickly as I want them to, I will still write them often! That way they can receive letters and know that I am here for them!” Violet announced.

“That sounds just fine! I know they’ll appreciate that. They are not as fortunate as we are. They may go through rough times. You already know Magdel has,” said Violet’s mother.

“Yes, mom, I know. I love my pen pals!”

“And I love you, Violet Ann!


This is my story that I wrote for the magazine I get!

I have four pen pals and their names are, Magdel, Joreth, Rachel, and Leanna!

See you all!

Luanna

Our Vacation!

Our Vacation to Salem, Ohio!

If you all would like to see pictures please go to my dad's blog at: www.mjwsjw.wordpress.com


The kid cousins are Erica 7 and Christopher 4 (which are brother and sister) then all of these are brother and sister: Brian 16, Kayla 13, Courteny 10, and Alyssa 7.
Erica and Christopher are Ken and Carol's kids. Carol is my dad's cousin. And then the other kids belong to Drew and Melonie. Melonie is my dad's cousin also. Then in some of the pictures there might be some pictures of some older people, those are my Great-Uncle Joe and Great-Aunt Freda which are Carol and Melonie's mother and father. Uncle Joe and Aunt Freda have two other boys also, but they were not able to come. Randy and Darrian and their families. Randy and his wife and maybe his daughter were going to visit Darrian!!

Well, ttyl!

Comment soon.

BTY: we just got home today!

LUANNA

New Meredith Anne pictures!

Hi! Here is a few pictures mom took today of Meredith!!
Have a good weekend!!



Luanna Wright

Scary!

This morning like at 1:00 or 1:30 6 different cars were set on fire. One of those cars happened to be my Grandpa Englund's.

http://www.kmbc.com/news/15572637/detail.html?rss=kc1&psp=news&gg=true

Please watch the video clip on this site. The car that is right behind the lady is my Grandpa's. You can see Grandma and Grandpa's house in the background.




http://www.kctv5.com/news/15572218/detail.html
This video on this site is where my Grandpa talks on the video.

Please remember them. We all must thank God that the car that they park really close to the house did not get on fire. At least Grandpa's car was older and parked by the road.

Luanna

My Baby Brother!

Hi,

I just wanted to let all of my readers (which may not be many!) know that it looks like I am going to have a baby brother! Is that exciting or what? We will have to get adjusted, for sure!



Here is a picture of my little brother!



Luanna

Today is the Day!!!

We are getting a sonogram today at 4:00!

I will tell you what it is going to be soon!

LJW

Picture of Meredith Ann Williams :)

Hi! Here she is today! Is she not a cutie? Post on my blog and tell me what you think of the little one! She fell asleep in my arms today while I was watching a video!!! Cutie!

Luanna =)

Babysitting job =)

Hi all! How are you doing?

Mom has taken on a job of babysitting her cousin (and mine) Lynette's baby, Meredith Ann.

She will be babysitting Monday, Wednesday and Friday of weeks here for a while.

If I help out alot (which I will she is so tiny and cute) I will get payed some of the money!!!

I fed her all by myself (which almost everybody can feed a baby even Julianna!) and then of course she just had to spit up on me! I can hold her standing and sitting and I think she likes me!!!

(P.S. mom will get payed the money and then maybe I will get a little of the money!!)

Well, Gotta run!

Luanna