Journal entries of a 6 year old...oh boy

Keera's school journal entries came home today....they do a lot of writing.

Most of it reminds me of what a six year old should and is writing, but then there are those entries that are just so "keera" like.

For example....one whole page was devoted to what she had done one Saturday and then at the very bottom it said, "My sister went looking for a homecoming dress.  It was too short."  (Great....I'm sure her teacher laughed over that one.)

Then there was the Thanksgiving one, which got everything perfectly right...with a little personal editing.  "On Thanksgiving my cousins and I played football.  It ws girls vs boys.  The boys won that because every one on the girl team was bad except me.  I kept getting hurt.  I was the only one who got the goals on the girls team."  (She is right...she is the only one who scored). 

The Halloween entry states, "My mother stole some candy from my brother."  Accurate, but embarassing.

And the scariest entry of all is the one that Bob and I got talked to about at parent-teacher conference time.  The teacher showed us the journal and we smiled as we read through cute entries...until we got to, "if I was a butterfly entry....."I would go in my house and take all the food from my brother Connor and I would steal my sister's jewlery .  I would steal my mom's necklaces too.  I would steal all the ice cream in the whole universe.  I would steal all the money in the universe. Even my family's money."  Yes....we were asked about this journal entry.  She does live in a family of 4, where food is taken out from under you and jewelry of a 14 year old and mom is not shared with a 6 year old (yes, she has her own play jewelry) and older siblings threaten to take her money.......oh dear, we are bad........

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