Sparkle Girl's Diary IV

Dear Diary,

I like to go to church with Momma but I was too sick to go today. I might have a cold or I might have allergies. We don't know. All we know is that I have been coughing and sneezing a lot.

Yesterday, I was sitting on the couch when I needed to sneeze. I turned away from Momma so that I wouldn't sneeze on her but I forgot that Kim was sitting on the other side. So I sneezed on him instead.

He said, "Yeewww."

It sounded a lot like the "yeewww" Momma says when sees a dead mole on the front porch.

After Momma went to church, Doobins played and played and played. Momma says he has a really good imagination. She says I have a really good imagination, too. After a while, Doobins said, "Where's Momma?"

Kim said, "She's at church. She will be home in a few minutes."

Doobins said, "I want her here taking care of me."

"Your mother takes really good care of you," Kim said. "You are one of the luckiest little boys in all of the world."

"No, I am not," Doobins said.

I think Kim is right.

Momma came home not long after that. She picked up Doobins and gave him a big hug. I am too big for her to pick up anymore. So she bent down to give me a hug.

Signed, Sparkle Girl

Sparkle Girl's Diary III

Dear Diary,

I have been doing lots of things during Christmas vacation. One of the things I have been doing is shopping. Momma took me and Doobins shopping. Sweet Kathy took me and Doobins shopping. Kim took me and Doobins shopping.

Wild Tim didn't take me or Doobins shopping. He says he has better things to do with his life than shop. He said that, if we wanted, he would fill the back of his truck with water and let it freeze and then we could ride around in the back and slide around.

Me and Doobins liked that idea a lot but Momma said that we couldn't.

Another thing that I have been doing is drawing a picture of the Nativity. I have been adding more things each day. First, I did the Baby Jesus and Mary and Joseph. Then I drew an angel above them. The angel is part of the heavenly host. I learned that in Sunday school.

After that I drew the shepherds. I thought that they would be easier than the wise men so I did them first. I did the wise men and then went back and drew some lambs for the shepherds.

With all the things going on, I have to stop drawing sometimes and do other things. I don't mind stopping to go shopping and I don't mind stopping to eat lunch. But sometimes I am not ready to stop when Momma comes in and says, "Time for Baby One and Baby Two to get ready for bed."

I am Baby One because I was born first. Doobins is Baby Two because he was born second.

I was going to color the picture when I got all the lambs done and maybe after I put in some more angels.

This afternoon I went in to my room and Doobins was coloring my picture.

I said, "Doobins" real loud because I was upset.

Momma came in and said, "Doobins" real loud, too.

Sometimes he means to be mean. I know he didn't mean to be mean this time. But it made me sad anyway.

Signed, Sparkle Girl

More Sparkle Girl's Diary

Dear Diary,

This morning, I was in the kitchen eating diamond cereal with milk, when I heard Momma say, "Yeewww." She said "yeewww" the way she says it when she opens the front door and sees that our cat Poos has left something on the front porch.

Poos likes to give us presents. Momma doesn't always like them. Once, he came into the house with a mouse in his mouth. The tail was sticking out.

When Momma yelled at him, he dropped it. The mouse was still alive and started running around in a circle. Momma yelled again. Poos picked it up. Momma picked him up and threw him out the front door.

He came and sat in one of the windows. Momma closed the curtain.

This morning, when I went to see what Momma was yeewwwing about, there was a mole. Momma closed the door. She went and got the phone and called Kim. She said, "When you come over this morning, make sure that you don't step on the mole that Poos left."

I went and got Doobins so that he could see the mole, too. By the time I got back to my diamond cereal it was soggy so I put some more cereal in it.

When Kim came over, he got a shovel and scooped up the mole and took it around back and threw it in that area under the trees. Momma calls it the jungle. One day, she is going to clean it up and plant some hostas. She said I could go with her to the garden shop and help pick them out.

For now, the jungle is a good place to throw moles.

Signed, Sparkle Girl

Sparkle Girl's Diary (A True Story)

Dear Diary,

On Saturday night, I left a thank-you note for the fairies outside the kitchen door.

The thank-you note was for the necklace they left for me. The necklace had a clear heart on a purple-and-white ribbon. It is very beautiful.

I wrote the note on lavender paper. I started with a big sheet of paper, and I cut a little piece off of it. The note said, "Dear fairies, Thank you for the necklace. Love, Sparkle Girl."

I folded the note and taped it with a tiny sticker that looked like a heart. In case the sticker fell off, I put tape on top of it.

I got some moss and a blue sequin and some flower petals and two helicopters from the maple tree in front of Scotty's house and made a little pile. I put the note on top of that and put a clear glass jar upside down on it.

Before I went to bed, I turned on the light outside the kitchen door so they could see it. The next morning, I went and looked. Everything was still there.

The fairies didn't see it because the light that I turned on was turned off. Mom thinks she might have turned it off by accident.

On Sunday, we turned on the light again. This morning, everything was gone, and the fairies had left me a new present.

It was two clear hearts on a pink tulip petal. I really, really, really, really, really like them.

I called up Kim to tell him about them. At first, he didn't answer. About one minute later, he called. He might have been in the bathtub but I don't know for sure.

He said he was very happy to hear that the fairies had come.

Signed, Sparkle Girl

Doobins and the Light Saber

On the way to see the latest Veggie Tales movie, Doobins said that, if he liked it, we could buy the DVD and bring it home with us.

It was a natural presumption. Doobins and Sparkle Girl see most of their movies on DVDs and, generally, the only question is whether we are going to buy or rent the movie they want to see.

In the process of explaining to him that he wouldn't be able to get a DVD of the movie for months, I told him all about growing up in a time when nothing could be recorded and how, if you wanted to see something, you saw it when it was broadcast or you didn't see it at all.

He was unimpressed.

Lucky for us, he didn't say anything about buying the DVD when we left the theater.

More recently, somone gave him some Legos versions of Star Wars characters. The light sabers were missing. When he said that he needed to get some light sabers, I agreed wholeheartedly. If you are going to have Star Wars men, you definitely need light sabers.

After we found some on eBay and ordered them, he hopped down from his chair, went into the living room and started putting on his shoes.

"Where are you going, Bud?" I asked.

"To pick up the light sabers."

I had to explain to him that not only could we not pick them up right now, it was also going to be at least several days before the mailman delivered them.

I left a while after that. When I checked in with Garnet later, she said that Doobins was perched in the front window keeping an eye out for the mailman.