A Quacklin Easter by Jacqueline Gibbs (english reading book TXT) 📕

to run and get her toothbrush. Sally ran to the bathroom and back and grabbed her bag and was ready to head to my house. "Oh, my stuffie." She had forgotten her favorite animal, yes her stuff puppy. She had him since she was 2yrs old her mom said. She slept with him everynight no matter where she stayed. I grabbed her bag and we rushed down the stairs. "Daddy, daddy we ready you ready." "Calm down, and Im talking so what do you say?" "Excuse me daddy, are you ready?" Daddy closed his sentence and we were headed to my house.

Daddy buckled us up again and we now going to my house. Daddy pulled to the back of the house, and I was wondering why, was Grandma here? Mommy woke Charles up and we all got out of the car. I helped Sally with her bags and we were headed to my room to play dollies. Daddy opened the door and it was all my family yelling, "Surprise." Another party I thought, why for me. It was grandma, grandpa, auntie petty and uncle dobsie and my cousins Rob and Rose they were only 2yrs old. I looked next to the table where grandpa was and it was a bag of gifts. "Are those for me, grandpa?" "Yes are you the birthday girl?" I shook my head and grandpa gave me a big hug. I showed everyone Sally and told them she is my best friend in the whole wide world. They all giggled, and I went to hug my little cousins. Mama told us to go upstairs and put the bags down, wash our hands and come back down. We did just as told and raced back down the stairs, and this time I won the race. Ma and the family had made me a big dinner, we had turkey, ham, macaroni and cheese, beef rice a roni, greens, cornbread, stuffing, yams, and potato salad. We all sat at the table and grandma said the grace.

We sat at the table the little one's to one end and the adults to the other. Laughing and talking we were having a great time. This was the best birthday in a long time. I had all my favorite people with me, my best friend, my mom and dad, my brother, aunts and uncles and grandma and grandpa and cousins. It couldn't have been any better. We all continued to eat and laugh til we were full. "May I excuse myself mommy?" I held my plate up showing her I was all done. "Yes, if you all are done you can excuse yourself." So the children excuse themselves and we went one by one and washed our hands. I told my mom me and Sally was headed up to my room to play dollies and Charles and the twins was headed in his room. "Anybody wanna race up?" Charles asked. We all was tired so we shook our head letting him know we were not interested in running.

It was now 8:24pm by my bedroom clock and auntie and uncle had decided it was time to go. They called the twins down and me and Charles ran down to say goodnite. "Bye grandma and grandpa, auntie and uncle." They kissed us goodnight and we waved as they left in their car headed home. "Now you all we had a long day, so lets take a nice long bath and prepare for bed." Mommy came up the stairs and ran us some water and one by one we took our bath and headed in our room for bed. Sally was sad, she was looking for her stuff puppy. "I found it, I found it," it was Sally puppy. She grabbed her puppy and kissed him goodnight and mom told us to say our bedtime prayer. We said our prayers with Amen to follow, and she tucked us in and we were off to sleepy land. She walked in Charles room and he was already dozing off, so they said their prayers with an Amen to end the night. Goodnight children mom whispered as she headed to her room for a night of peace.


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Publication Date: 05-15-2009

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