12-10-12

     We just got hit with a bunch of snow. It is white....Here. It is not so white at my school because people trample the snow with their dirty boots, but that's mostly in the field.
     My Christmas piano recital is coming up. I am playing "White Christmas" and have been practicing it a ton. I think my family is sick of it because even I am and I'm playing it. I'm also playing "Tomorrow" and "A Journey in the Arctic." My piano teacher and I renamed "A journey in the Arctic" because we are not ready for it to be winter yet. Now the song is called "The Seesaw".
     We made Christmas cookies yesterday. We made snowman cookies. In the snowman cookies, we have to use sugar. In order to make the cookies healthier, we put sugar in the raw in the cookies. Sugar in the raw has a brownish tint to it. The dough turned out kind of a brown color. It was funny. I guess our snowmen will actually be dirtmen. Have a verry MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Oh, and one more thing. If you make snowmen cookies, DO NOT USE SUGAR IN THE RAW! THEY WILL LOOK LIKE DIRTMEN!

 

 

Your friend,

 

Madelyn Joy

    





    





12-9-12

     I am very excited for two reasons. First, I am in the Christmas program that our Sunday School is doing. I am an angel. Also, my friend and I asked my teacher if we could do a play at the end of the year since we are the oldest kids in the school. My teacher said yes and also told me that I could write the play. I can't wait to do the auditions. We are going to have a bunch of people help us.
     I am also very excited because my mom and I are going to see "The Nutcracker" that my ballet studio is showing. I could not be in it because I was gone the day of the auditions. There are only about 4 or 5 kids in the whole ballet studio that aren't doing it. That either means that I'm insane or unique. I would rather be unique so I take it that way.
      I can't wait for Christmas. Can you? The Christmas Eve service is the best part of the whole season.
     One more thing. I was at Sunday School today and I saw a sticker that said "Jesus is the reason for the season." Remember that when you're out and about this season.
    

12-8-12

     I am so sorry that it took me so long to get back on the blog. 
     The tree is up and decorated. People are running around the town, doing last minute shopping. The scent of pine needles lingers in the air. It's like a true life version of the song "Silver Bells".
     I also have other news. I sent in an application for the camp "Author Quest". It had to be 100 words at least. Mine was about 300 words or so. Anyway, last night, my mom called me downstairs from my room. She was holding a printed e-mail. She acted like it was really bad news. She handed me the paper. I was about half-way into it when my mom pointed to the last line and told me to read it. It said 'See you in June, Madelyn'. I was so happy. I finished reading the e-mail and jumped for joy. It was the best news that I had heard in quite a while.
     Some other things have been happening as well. I won an award for my essay about patriotism and freedom and also started to do Reading Olympics. In Reading Olympics, you have to sign up. Then you have to read at least seven out of the twenty-five books. If you do that, you get on a team. The local competition is in March. Whatever team wins that gets to go to the finals. I already qualified.  Right now, I am reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackier Robinson. It is awesome. I would recomend it to anyone.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!