I get so angry sometimes! Mom (I call her Mom now because that’s what big girls call their Mommys) isn’t always around when I do it. If she was, I’d never get to come out of my room at all! But it’s not my fault that I hit Kate and Will and I yell at them. They’re stupid buttheads, and when they do stupid stuff my tummy gets tickly and then I have to move around and do something and the only way to stop my tummy being tickly is to shout or move my arms around, but usually it’s just yelling.

Kate is my sister, she’s seven years old and she has a stupid haircut that makes her look like a boy. I’m not a BIG meanie, so I don’t tell her that, but one time a little boy called her a boy. That make me mad because he wasn’t her sister so he wasn’t allowed to say that, but I didn’t do anything because Mommy was there and I was too scared of getting in trouble. That little boy make Kate cry, which was not nice of him to do.

Anyway, that’s not what I wanted to talk about. Basically, I get really angry sometimes and I can’t really do much about it because I don’t want to. Whenever I get angry my mommy – I mean my mom – sends me to my room and I just read my Baby Sitters Club books until dinner, when she lets me come out. She makes me do something stupid like say sorry to Kate of Will, who’s my brother, but it’s OK because they don’t really care and I’ve been reading my BSC (that’s the abbreviation for Baby Sitters Club) books so my tummy doesn’t tickle anymore. My friends and me are gonna make our own Babysitters Club when we’re 13, and we’re gonna have meetings every week with our own phone number and everything, just like in the books. But anyway, when I come out for dinner I have to say I’m sorry and then everything’s fine.

While I’m eating dinner I used to like to feed my food to Bonnie, our dog who’s a beagle. She was really pretty and Mom and Daddy had her since before I was born, which is a really long time. One day I came home from school and I had had an OK day. Mrs. Cochran said I write really well and whenever she says that my mommy is happy and my Daddy rolls his eyes and says that I’m just like Mommy, but he’s smiling when he rolls his eyes. Anyway, I came home from school on the bus with Will and Kate and when Daddy got home from his work, Mommy and Daddy made us all sit down at the table. I thought something exciting was gonna happen, like maybe we were going somewhere other than Cape May for vacation this summer. I felt really important because we were all sitting down at the table together so it was like we were at a meeting, even though I don’t really know what goes on at meetings, but I bet they were kinda like what we were doing. Then I asked where Bonnie was, because she wasn’t there, and that’s when Mommy and Daddy said that we didn’t have Bonnie anymore. They said she was gone to Heaven because she had cancer and died. I didn’t know what to say so mostly I just said “oh.” There wasn’t anything else that I wanted to say but Will and Kate asked what was going to happen to her kennel and Mary was asleep through the whole thing, but she’s just a baby so it was OK.