Anna and Jennifer

The following is an excerpt from the journal I kept when I was seven. For your enjoyment, I have not altered or corrected any spelling, but some punctuation has been added for clarity. This type of thing is lost in translation, but I also want you to know that it was written in fairly decent cursive.

Anna & Jennifer

PROLOGUE
(Had I known what a Prologue was in 2nd grade, this would have been it.)

I wish my name could be Jennifer because it is a pretty name and because it is a populer. This story about two little girls.

CHAPTER 1
Once upon a time their were two girls named Anna and Jennifer. They were both populer, but Anna was nice to people that looked diffrent and ugley but Jennifer onley liked the populer girls. They were in 3rd grade. Jennifer had a friend that was a boy. She called him her boyfriend, but Anna didn’t have a boyfriend. Then one Saterday Anna and Jennifer went to the store and Jennifer wanted to see if Anna would steal, but Anna would not steal. Then on Monday, the two of them sol a new girl. Her name was Sensila.

Jennifer came up to Sensila and said, “Hey, Sillya, you don’t have make up? If you don’t have make up, you arn’t cool, plus there are to many scares on your face.”

“S-so,” she said fritendly.

Anna said, “Hi Sensila, I’m Anna. Where are you from?”

“Nashville, Tennisea.”

“Welcome to Michigan. You will like it in Allegan. North Ward is a nice place to go to school.”

“Thank you Anna. Is that girl over there your friend?”

“You mean Jennifer?”

“Yeah.”

“Yes, but she is mean sometimes. I get use to it. You will, too.”

“I sure hope so.”

“Do you have any firends?”

“No.”

“I will be your friend.”

Jennifer: “I hread that, Anna! You aren’t cool, you are hanging out with a geck.”

Anna: “She is not a geck! Just because she is uglie don’t mean she is a geck! You don’t even know what she looks like on the inside!”

Jennifer: “Whatever Anna!”

THE END

we've come so far

The semester is officially over. Although I was home, I managed to make it through my fair share of finals — a total of six papers. I enjoyed researching and writing papers on my view of the end times, the Mormon view of the afterlife, and my philosophy of education. I think I did a particularly killer job of writing a worldview integration lesson, featuring Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

And now I’m done.

Well… now the wedding orchestration heats up, I guess you could say. Yesterday, we had the lady who is doing our decorations come to the Lakeview Lodge to do some brainstorming and dreaming about what will be arranged. My dad began setting up our chuppah - the canopy under which Kevin and I will be married. It’s already so beautiful! My mom bought all the card stock and linen paper we need for our programs, and we’ve begun putting them together! It’s all going to be so beautiful!

This coming week, I will be a bridesmaid in one of my best friend’s weddings… exactly a week before my big day. What a way to get a person in the mood for weddings! I’m certainly excited to see the two of them - both great friends of mine - joined together.

Only eleven days till it’s my turn, though! And praise God for His faithfulness in getting us to this point!

Although it’s Christmas break now, and I’m going to be bustling around getting stuff ready for Cindy’s wedding, and then Christmas and my wedding after that… and the honeymoon… I’ll be sure to update at some point soon!

Happy Holidays! God bless us, everyone!