My mother and I “wrote” a narrative of my daily life when I was about Mara’s age. Mom recently sent it to me, and Mara and I read it together. Her favorite part was when my little sister Mary used to pretend she was my dog! Mara just laughed and laughed and laughed. When we finished reading, Mara said, “I wish our days were like that.” I told her that her days were fun and exciting too, and of course, she wanted to make a book with me. She has been asking to write a book almost every day, so today during naps, Mara dictated and I typed.
Since I haven’t blogged much lately, I figured I might as well share Mara’s perspective on things, beginning with her morning:
When I’m laying in bed, I hear Micah, and sometimes he comes in while I’m still resting. The sun is half-up. Sometimes Micah is not up yet. If he is still sleeping, me and Riss play together, but before long, he pops up in our room. Every morning Micah and I play together. The playing can last long. Me and Micah like playing tracks! Me and Carissa like dressing like princesses. She just got some princess dresses. They’re pretty. I have some too. I even have Rapunzel dolls.
When Mommy wakes up, it’s time to get ready for our day! We put on our clothes, and Mommy nurses the baby.
When we go downstairs, first we do our work. And this is our work: Micah lets out the puppies. I empty the bathroom trash and put in a new bag. Carissa opens the blinds.
We empty the dishwasher till there is nothing in there. Mommy does the glass things. Micah does the plates and puts them away. He also does the sippy cups; he puts the lids together. Carissa does the baby spoons. I do the silverware. I do the bowls too. We stack them neatly. We stack the ones that look like others together when we put them in the drawer. When we’re putting them in there, we put them in a nice, neat stack. It might sometimes look like a lighthouse!
Now it’s time to eat! We might sometimes have eggs, cereal, or maybe waffles too. We can have lots of different kinds of foods! Every morning we have fruits. After one of our meals, it’s vitamins.
After our breakfast, it’s time to play. The baby plays with us for a little bit. Then Mommy puts him to bed.
We do school and exercises. At exercises, we do jumping jacks. We do jump rope. There are push-ups and crunches. After that it’s schooltime. We do charts at school. I learn to read. We do sight words. Sight words are like “mother,” “here,” “his,” “has,” “father,” “orange,” and “are.” After charts, the baby is maybe up.
Now it’s lunchtime. Mommy feeds us first. We have for lunch vegetables and fruits. We also have yogurt with it sometimes. Even cheese sandwiches too. We can have peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. We also have chicken nuggets. Sometimes with our vegetables and fruits, we have pretzels that are like sticks, except they have twisty hairs, like a braid! [Rolled Gold Honey Wheat Twists]
These days every day I take medicine that I like after every meal. I like it.
We sometimes play. Then we go to naps. After that, I need to go potty. Then I play. Sometimes the kids aren’t up yet. When they are, we play together. We play train tracks in Micah’s room; we like to play Legos sometimes too. In my room, I play Legos too. I also play princesses. Sometimes I dress up as a princess! I can be Rapunzel too. Ariel—I have two Ariel dresses. I have one that’s shorter. It’s the one I like the best because it’s prettier. The other one is longer. It is bluish-greenish and does not have as much sparkle as the other one. That’s why I like the other one so much.
Then we eat dinner after playing. After that, Daddy comes home from work. Sometimes when he comes home from work, we go downstairs together in the basement and watch something. It’s our time together. Micah and I go down there together. We sometimes do it when David and Carissa are asleep. Sometimes we have time to watch another.
Sometimes we do baths before going to bed. That’s the times when we don’t get to go downstairs with Daddy. I don’t like them, because I feel cold at the end. In baths I wash my hair. We have to put conditioner and shampoo in.
Me and Carissa’s favorite bedclothes are a dress! I wear a Rapunzel dress. Cinderella is on Carissa’s. Mine has flowers on the back. Carissa’s has heels and shinies.
Then we go to bed. We sometimes read a book before bedtime. We even sometimes sing a song and pray. This is all before bedtime. I hear music. My favorite song starts with this: “Joyful, joyful we adore Thee. . .”
Church Days
On church day, we do the same things we do on the other days, except the funniest thing is that we wear PJs down to breakfast so we don’t get our church clothes covered in food!
When we’re done eating, we go upstairs to put on clothes. And then Daddy, when he wakes up, puts on his clothes. That’s on the days when he doesn’t go to work.
Our church changed where we sing after our school. It used to be before our school. After our school, we come and sing. Then we play with friends for a little bit. Then we say good-by.
Me and Micah sometimes ride our bikes and sometimes go in the stroller or sometimes walk.
Then we go to lunch. We sometimes get time to play before lunch. After naps, we do the same things we do on the other days.
The End
Wonderful!