The New Year

     New Years, in my opinion, is a time to make resolutions for yourself that you don’t

follow through on. Last year, I tried to not complain when my parents asked me to do chores, which didn’t happen. You have to make resolutions that are possible, and in my family no one creates ones that are possible.

     My little sister, Natalie, made a New Year’s resolution to not get scared at night and stay in her bed. That resolution failed on January 1, 2013. You see, my parents did not to tell my little sisters about the shooting in Connecticut. Unfortunately, my sisters know how to use this thing called the Internet, and were able to discover the misfortune on their own. Ever since they discovered that a man went into a school and shot children, they couldn’t go to the bathroomalone, fall asleep with the light off, or fall asleep at all. This also occurred on December 21, 2012, when the world was going to “end”. To make it so that they weren’t scared, I showed them Emma Louden’s blog post called, “We Are Not Going to Die (At Least Not on December 21)”.

     Back to January 1. It was time for Natalie to go to bed. After any vacation she usually gets nervous for the first day back and totally freaks out. This time, it was more than freaking out.Natalie was sobbing and sweating. I was the lucky one that had to go down to her room andcalm her down. I got there, and told her that Connecticut was really far away, and no one woulddo that here, blah blah blah. I then gave her my phone to text my older sister Katie with if she got too scared. Ten minutes later, Katie had 21 new text messages.

Here is how the conversation went:

1. Still scared Maddie get down here

(No Response)

2. Please Quick

3. Now

(No Response)

4. I’m so scared <3 Nat

5. Maddie please come quick

(No Response)

6. MADDIE

7. Can’t sleep

8. Maddie

9. Maddie

10. Maddie

11. Please come quick <3 Natalie

(No Response)

12. I’m tired, but I can’t sleep

13. Please

14. I’m crying and can’t stop

15. I’m sweating like crazy please please

(No Response)

16. Come

17. I don’t want to go to school

18. Bring tissues now now now now

19. Maddie, you said you would come. Will you get mom if she doesn’t get mad?

(No Response)

20. Please

21. Bring mom

Black- me
Blue- Natalie

     You may think that I’m a bad sister for not responding, but in all fairness Katie got the text messages, not me, and she didn’t tell me that she got them. Anyway, the next thing I know Ihad a sobbing sister standing at my bedroom door, and she was asking to sleep in my room. I let her, but on the first day of the new year, Natalie had failed her resolution. The next morning, Igot up for school, and stepped on her head. Whoops! I had forgotten that she had come in. My family is awful at New Year’s Resolutions.

Brigitte painted this on my computer for Natalie when she found out that Natalie had been scared.