A collection of short children's stories.

Nicole's Messy Room

     "Nicole, you won't be allowed to play outside today until your room is cleaned," says Nicole's mother. Nicole stood in the middle of her room with her hands on her hips looking around at her toys, books, and clothes all over her bedroom floor. Nicole thought to herself, "This is going to take me all day, and it's a nice day to play outside."

Nicole slowly started to clean, first, she picked up her clothes and put them into her clothes hamper. Once that was done, Nicole began to pick up all the small toys, while picking up the toys she discovered a few old toys that she hadn't played within a while. The one that stood out was an old toy microphone. "I haven't played with this in weeks I thought I lost it," says Nicole. Even though Nicole was supposed to be cleaning her room, she all of a sudden pretended that she was a superstar with that microphone in her hand. Just for a minute, Nicole sang out loud and danced in front of her stuffed animals until her mother peeked in her room to see how the cleaning was going.

"What are you doing young lady? This doesn't look like cleaning," says Nicole's mother. "I'm almost finished," says Nicole. "I'll be back to check on you in about thirty minutes, this room better be spotless," says Nicole's mother. Nicole quickly got back on track and began to pick up the rest of the toys and clothes, next she straightens her bookshelf, then she made her bed, she even swept her bedroom floor. After everything was all done, Nicole took a look out her bedroom window to see if the sun was still up and it was, that means Nicole could still play outside.

Nicole's mother came back into the bedroom thirty minutes later like she said to inspect. As Nicole's mother looked around the room she had a surprised look on her face. "You did a good job, this room looks amazing, you are now free to play outside," says Nicole's mother. Nicole thought about playing outside then she thought about all of the toys she had found while cleaning and figured she would rather play with them instead.

Nicole played with her old toys right up until dinner time then played some more after dinnern until bedtime. Once Nicole finished playing, Nicole noticed that her room was messy all over again. Nicole already knew what her day was going to be like tomorrow and that's another afternoon of cleaning. Nicole thought to herself, "You never know what you have until you clean your room."

The End