Some days are good and some days are really great and some days are bad and then today was worse than anything invented (that ever happened in the history of everything!)
Somebody called me 'BOSSY' and I am NOT bossy. And that does it! Because it was Kara who was one of my friends... who was almost not my friend anymore. At least that's what I thought at school today.
It all started when Ms. Clay divided us up into Solar System groups. Kara and Luci and I got to be in a group. We didn't know which planet we would get...except no one got Pluto anymore because it is not a planet now; it's still out there just like it always was, but it doesn't count the same as it did before Scientists changed the rules about planets a bit. So we could do a report on: Mercury or Venus or Earth or Mars or Jupiter or Saturn or Uranus or Neptune. Those are the eight planets for now...oh, and we can report on The Sun (which really isn't a planet either...but since it is smack dab in the middle of everything and all the planets circle around it...we get to include it in the reports). AND my group chose The Sun out of all the tiny folded papers in Nathaniel's baseball cap. I was so happy that Luci chose that bitty paper because I know how to draw a Sun very good and PLUS...I had great ideas for our group.
We whispered because we wanted our report to be very secret and very awesome without anyone stealing our great ideas. "Come on Kara and Luci, let's go back by the pencil sharpener so no one will hear our plans. Seems like Jace and Jonathan and Samuel got Mars and I heard them say that they were going to wear green face paint to do their report and maybe even hand out Mars candy bars. Hailey and Caitlyn and McKenzie chose the paper that said: 'Earth' and so they got the moon (and two balloons) automatically. Soon all of the reports were drawn and Nathaniel got his hat back.
Each group got a balloon and a stack of newspapers. We had to rip the newspapers into strips and then we dip the strips into ooey gooey sticky stuff and it is called paper mache and we took turns putting them all around our balloon. Tomorrow the whole Solar System will be dry and we can pop the balloons underneath and poster paint the planets!
I told Luci to smooth the gooey strips just a little bit better because you can't have a Sun with too many sticky outy parts too much. I told my group that we should make a poster about the Sun and that we should use orange and red and yellow paint on it because I know about paint and colors and stuff, that's all. Well, I told Kara to look up about the Sun in the encyclopedia by Ms. Clay's desk and told Luci that we should all wear Sun colors when we do our report.
I said, "I think Luci should start and talk about how we would all die if we didn't have the Sun...because we would...we would just flop over and die dead. We need it every day. She could tell about how the Sun gives us the Light so that we can see things. Without it, we wouldn't see anything and would probably just fall over our shoes and stuff all the time...except without the Sun we wouldn't even need shoes because we wouldn't be here."
Then I told Kara that she should talk about how the Sun is not really a planet because it is really a Star. The biggest one, because it is the closest to us. She could tell how the Sun is burning up. It is made of gas that all stays together somehow and it has burned for billions of years and hasn't burned up, because it is like the metal inside a toaster and it glows but doesn't really burn. It is called nuclear reactions...but that is the part that we might skip a little until we read about that some more with our dads. Anyway, that's why the Sun makes us feel warm and gives us heat and that is why we love summer time so much. I told Kara that she should read about all of that, but I could tell that Kara didn't especially know about nuclear reactions either so much. But I told them that I could talk about the names of the Sun. I looked it up and in Latin (which is another language where they don't speak English like us, they call it the 'Sol'. And to some people who speak in Greek because their parents didn't teach them to talk like us...it is named Helios...but we will just say Sun because we do know how to talk in English. So I think I will talk about how the Sun is 109 times bigger than the Earth and that there are 300 billon stars in our Galaxy but the Sun is the closest star of all of them and so it is our favorite.
And right then, just as I was going to go get the colors all picked out for our planet and poster painting tomorrow, Kara said that she wasn't going to do the part that I wanted her to do. And I told her that we had to do all of the parts and that was hers. Then she said, "You are so bossy Hadley K, you are not the Sun you know...we don't all have to go around you all the time...what about our ideas? OH MY. I just stood there. It felt like my shoes were paper mached to the floor with all the sticky paste stuff. I froze. I couldn't move. WHAT? I am NOT BOSSY! Luci froze with me for a minute. Then Kara said, "Fine, then you two can do it by yourselves...because you think you have ALL the good ideas." and she went back to her seat and pouted til' recess. I looked at Luci. Our report was going to be very horrible and awful now. "She has to help us Luci...Ms. Clay will be soooo mad." And I was getting a little mad too. BOSSY! Who me?
Bossy is what little kids do. They tell everybody what to do and where to be and how to play and where to sit and what to say and what to eat and how to think and they tattle about everything and they never listen to anybody until their mother says: "Honey, quit telling them what to do, you just take care of you...let me be the mom." But I wasn't doing that! I just had some really great IDEAS and I was JUST HELPING MY SOLAR SYSTEM SUN GROUP so we could do a super special report, that's all!
It is not good to be angry at anybody...and so I tried my best...but that really made me mad red hot like the Sun when she said: BOSSY. Well, fine. I will write down that the Sun is 863,040 miles across and maybe tomorrow Kara will read about that to our class and I will do her other part. Maybe I should have been in the Saturn group because I like the ring around Saturn and we could use a little hoola hoop or something to show that. They would like all my ideas.
After school, I asked Luci if she thought I was BOSSY. "I'm not, am I Luci?" She started to bite her bottom lip which she always does when she is thinking really really hard. "Luci, just tell me what you are thinking right now." I said. The she asked me a question instead. "Hadley, you know how you like to think of great ideas?" I answered "Yes" because I do like to figure things out. "Well, what if Kara said all her ideas and you didn't get to say any of yours?" I had to think about that because Luci had a very good question and she is my very best friend. "You mean what if she decided about everything (what I talked about for my report and what you talked about for your report and what she talked about for her report) and what colors we should paint our Star and what we should wear?" Luci nodded her head. "No way! She can't do that. She can't make up all the decisions. NO WAY!" I said. OOPS.
And then I got it. That is what I had done. I WAS BOSSY! OH NO! I forgot to listen to Kara's very own ideas. PLUS, I forgot to listen to Luci's ideas. "Luci, did you have ANY ideas?" She said that she had a great idea, but we ran out of time at school and now we ran out of time again because we were at her house. WOW! I am BOSSY. And now I wonder what Luci's idea was?
I burst into our house and told my mom the whole yucky story about my day. She was reading a library book, but when I got to the BOSSY part...she put it down and looked right at me. "Mom, Kara is soooooo mad at me that I think she will ruin our whole report. I am going to tell her that she has to do it. She can't ruin it for Luci and me. I will make her do her part tomorrow." My hands were on my hips and my mind was made up about that girl.
Was I ever having the worst day of all time. Plus, I might flunk out of school if that report isn't good and then I will never get to have a real locker or go to a higher grade. But mom had an idea and my day changed to 180 differences.
"Hadley, honey, may I tell you a story about the Sun? Grandpa told it to me when I was little?"
At first, I thought she was changing the subject...but then I remembered that other people have good ideas too, and so I listened real close to see what her idea was.
"Once upon a time the wind and the Sun decided to have a contest. They saw a man on the sidewalk and they decided to see who was the strongest. Their idea was to see which of them could make that man take off his blue coat the fastest and then they would know who was strongest. So the wind blew and blew. The wind blew very hard trying to blow the man's coat right off...but he pulled his coat tighter around him. Every time the wind blew, the man pulled the coat closer. Finally the wind was all blown out and the Sun tried. Out came the smiling soft sunshine and spread rays all around the man. He started to smile and began to get warm. Soon he took his blue coat off and enjoyed his walk in the Sun."
I could see what my mom was saying already. Her idea was to be warm and kind to Kara like the sun, not to be mean and cold and blow and blow like the wind because that would make her mad again. I cannot make her do the part I say. "Mom, what would the Sun do to take the pouty stuff off of Kara so she will help us?" Then mom picked her book up again. "I want to hear your idea about what to do, right after you set the table," she said.
I knew what I had to do. Right after dinner dishes, I called Luci to see what her idea was for the Sun group. She had a super idea about cutting our poster into a round circle and stuff. Then I called Kara and she almost hung up on me! She was still pouting. How can anyone pout that long? She could have been playing instead! But I kept thinking: Sun, Sun, Sun, and so I was warm and kind and nice and sweet and polite and I said I wanted to hear what her idea was. She had a great idea too! She wanted to bring a light bulb to school tomorrow because: The Sun is so bright that it is equal to 4 trillion trillion light bulbs! That is 4.000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 of them! OH, that is something that I didn't even know about! And she wondered if we should tell everyone not to look right at the Sun because it would hurt their eyes very bad, maybe even to blind and stuff, and then we both had the idea that we could all wear SUN GLASSES!!! Very cool! I will call and see if Luci likes that idea too. Then we talked about Luci's round poster idea and I could hear Kara start to smile right over the phone. PLUS, she said that she liked my idea about giving every one a yellow smiley sticker because that was sorta like little suns on their hands.
My hand is getting tired from writing all of this. Ok journal, help me remember about other people's ideas too. I don't have all the ideas. I never ever in a million years ever want to be BOSSY again. No WAY! I know that Heavenly Father made the whole Galaxy and the Sun and all of the Planets...so I know He can help me be a little bit kinder to people. Thats what I will ask Him to Please help me with.
When dad got home, he gave me a big hug and said, "Hey Sunshine! How was your day?" :)
Somebody called me 'BOSSY' and I am NOT bossy. And that does it! Because it was Kara who was one of my friends... who was almost not my friend anymore. At least that's what I thought at school today.
It all started when Ms. Clay divided us up into Solar System groups. Kara and Luci and I got to be in a group. We didn't know which planet we would get...except no one got Pluto anymore because it is not a planet now; it's still out there just like it always was, but it doesn't count the same as it did before Scientists changed the rules about planets a bit. So we could do a report on: Mercury or Venus or Earth or Mars or Jupiter or Saturn or Uranus or Neptune. Those are the eight planets for now...oh, and we can report on The Sun (which really isn't a planet either...but since it is smack dab in the middle of everything and all the planets circle around it...we get to include it in the reports). AND my group chose The Sun out of all the tiny folded papers in Nathaniel's baseball cap. I was so happy that Luci chose that bitty paper because I know how to draw a Sun very good and PLUS...I had great ideas for our group.
We whispered because we wanted our report to be very secret and very awesome without anyone stealing our great ideas. "Come on Kara and Luci, let's go back by the pencil sharpener so no one will hear our plans. Seems like Jace and Jonathan and Samuel got Mars and I heard them say that they were going to wear green face paint to do their report and maybe even hand out Mars candy bars. Hailey and Caitlyn and McKenzie chose the paper that said: 'Earth' and so they got the moon (and two balloons) automatically. Soon all of the reports were drawn and Nathaniel got his hat back.
Each group got a balloon and a stack of newspapers. We had to rip the newspapers into strips and then we dip the strips into ooey gooey sticky stuff and it is called paper mache and we took turns putting them all around our balloon. Tomorrow the whole Solar System will be dry and we can pop the balloons underneath and poster paint the planets!
I told Luci to smooth the gooey strips just a little bit better because you can't have a Sun with too many sticky outy parts too much. I told my group that we should make a poster about the Sun and that we should use orange and red and yellow paint on it because I know about paint and colors and stuff, that's all. Well, I told Kara to look up about the Sun in the encyclopedia by Ms. Clay's desk and told Luci that we should all wear Sun colors when we do our report.
I said, "I think Luci should start and talk about how we would all die if we didn't have the Sun...because we would...we would just flop over and die dead. We need it every day. She could tell about how the Sun gives us the Light so that we can see things. Without it, we wouldn't see anything and would probably just fall over our shoes and stuff all the time...except without the Sun we wouldn't even need shoes because we wouldn't be here."
Then I told Kara that she should talk about how the Sun is not really a planet because it is really a Star. The biggest one, because it is the closest to us. She could tell how the Sun is burning up. It is made of gas that all stays together somehow and it has burned for billions of years and hasn't burned up, because it is like the metal inside a toaster and it glows but doesn't really burn. It is called nuclear reactions...but that is the part that we might skip a little until we read about that some more with our dads. Anyway, that's why the Sun makes us feel warm and gives us heat and that is why we love summer time so much. I told Kara that she should read about all of that, but I could tell that Kara didn't especially know about nuclear reactions either so much. But I told them that I could talk about the names of the Sun. I looked it up and in Latin (which is another language where they don't speak English like us, they call it the 'Sol'. And to some people who speak in Greek because their parents didn't teach them to talk like us...it is named Helios...but we will just say Sun because we do know how to talk in English. So I think I will talk about how the Sun is 109 times bigger than the Earth and that there are 300 billon stars in our Galaxy but the Sun is the closest star of all of them and so it is our favorite.
And right then, just as I was going to go get the colors all picked out for our planet and poster painting tomorrow, Kara said that she wasn't going to do the part that I wanted her to do. And I told her that we had to do all of the parts and that was hers. Then she said, "You are so bossy Hadley K, you are not the Sun you know...we don't all have to go around you all the time...what about our ideas? OH MY. I just stood there. It felt like my shoes were paper mached to the floor with all the sticky paste stuff. I froze. I couldn't move. WHAT? I am NOT BOSSY! Luci froze with me for a minute. Then Kara said, "Fine, then you two can do it by yourselves...because you think you have ALL the good ideas." and she went back to her seat and pouted til' recess. I looked at Luci. Our report was going to be very horrible and awful now. "She has to help us Luci...Ms. Clay will be soooo mad." And I was getting a little mad too. BOSSY! Who me?
Bossy is what little kids do. They tell everybody what to do and where to be and how to play and where to sit and what to say and what to eat and how to think and they tattle about everything and they never listen to anybody until their mother says: "Honey, quit telling them what to do, you just take care of you...let me be the mom." But I wasn't doing that! I just had some really great IDEAS and I was JUST HELPING MY SOLAR SYSTEM SUN GROUP so we could do a super special report, that's all!
It is not good to be angry at anybody...and so I tried my best...but that really made me mad red hot like the Sun when she said: BOSSY. Well, fine. I will write down that the Sun is 863,040 miles across and maybe tomorrow Kara will read about that to our class and I will do her other part. Maybe I should have been in the Saturn group because I like the ring around Saturn and we could use a little hoola hoop or something to show that. They would like all my ideas.
After school, I asked Luci if she thought I was BOSSY. "I'm not, am I Luci?" She started to bite her bottom lip which she always does when she is thinking really really hard. "Luci, just tell me what you are thinking right now." I said. The she asked me a question instead. "Hadley, you know how you like to think of great ideas?" I answered "Yes" because I do like to figure things out. "Well, what if Kara said all her ideas and you didn't get to say any of yours?" I had to think about that because Luci had a very good question and she is my very best friend. "You mean what if she decided about everything (what I talked about for my report and what you talked about for your report and what she talked about for her report) and what colors we should paint our Star and what we should wear?" Luci nodded her head. "No way! She can't do that. She can't make up all the decisions. NO WAY!" I said. OOPS.
And then I got it. That is what I had done. I WAS BOSSY! OH NO! I forgot to listen to Kara's very own ideas. PLUS, I forgot to listen to Luci's ideas. "Luci, did you have ANY ideas?" She said that she had a great idea, but we ran out of time at school and now we ran out of time again because we were at her house. WOW! I am BOSSY. And now I wonder what Luci's idea was?
I burst into our house and told my mom the whole yucky story about my day. She was reading a library book, but when I got to the BOSSY part...she put it down and looked right at me. "Mom, Kara is soooooo mad at me that I think she will ruin our whole report. I am going to tell her that she has to do it. She can't ruin it for Luci and me. I will make her do her part tomorrow." My hands were on my hips and my mind was made up about that girl.
Was I ever having the worst day of all time. Plus, I might flunk out of school if that report isn't good and then I will never get to have a real locker or go to a higher grade. But mom had an idea and my day changed to 180 differences.
"Hadley, honey, may I tell you a story about the Sun? Grandpa told it to me when I was little?"
At first, I thought she was changing the subject...but then I remembered that other people have good ideas too, and so I listened real close to see what her idea was.
"Once upon a time the wind and the Sun decided to have a contest. They saw a man on the sidewalk and they decided to see who was the strongest. Their idea was to see which of them could make that man take off his blue coat the fastest and then they would know who was strongest. So the wind blew and blew. The wind blew very hard trying to blow the man's coat right off...but he pulled his coat tighter around him. Every time the wind blew, the man pulled the coat closer. Finally the wind was all blown out and the Sun tried. Out came the smiling soft sunshine and spread rays all around the man. He started to smile and began to get warm. Soon he took his blue coat off and enjoyed his walk in the Sun."
I could see what my mom was saying already. Her idea was to be warm and kind to Kara like the sun, not to be mean and cold and blow and blow like the wind because that would make her mad again. I cannot make her do the part I say. "Mom, what would the Sun do to take the pouty stuff off of Kara so she will help us?" Then mom picked her book up again. "I want to hear your idea about what to do, right after you set the table," she said.
I knew what I had to do. Right after dinner dishes, I called Luci to see what her idea was for the Sun group. She had a super idea about cutting our poster into a round circle and stuff. Then I called Kara and she almost hung up on me! She was still pouting. How can anyone pout that long? She could have been playing instead! But I kept thinking: Sun, Sun, Sun, and so I was warm and kind and nice and sweet and polite and I said I wanted to hear what her idea was. She had a great idea too! She wanted to bring a light bulb to school tomorrow because: The Sun is so bright that it is equal to 4 trillion trillion light bulbs! That is 4.000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 of them! OH, that is something that I didn't even know about! And she wondered if we should tell everyone not to look right at the Sun because it would hurt their eyes very bad, maybe even to blind and stuff, and then we both had the idea that we could all wear SUN GLASSES!!! Very cool! I will call and see if Luci likes that idea too. Then we talked about Luci's round poster idea and I could hear Kara start to smile right over the phone. PLUS, she said that she liked my idea about giving every one a yellow smiley sticker because that was sorta like little suns on their hands.
My hand is getting tired from writing all of this. Ok journal, help me remember about other people's ideas too. I don't have all the ideas. I never ever in a million years ever want to be BOSSY again. No WAY! I know that Heavenly Father made the whole Galaxy and the Sun and all of the Planets...so I know He can help me be a little bit kinder to people. Thats what I will ask Him to Please help me with.
When dad got home, he gave me a big hug and said, "Hey Sunshine! How was your day?" :)
