2nd Chapter- Karen's Families
On Fridays, I think about the weeken. I like weekends. Mine are usually nteresting. Guess what. I have two families. Every other weekend I go to daddy's house. In between, I live in mommy's house. This is because my mommy and daddy do not live together. They are divorced.
When I was little, I lived in one house with my mommy, my daddy, and my brother Andrew. ( Andrew is 4 now, going on five.) It was a big house. I was very happy. But mommy and daddy are not. They bagan to fight. Finally they told Andrew and me about the divorce. After the divorce, Mommy moved into a little house, and daddy stayed in the big house. ( That is the house he grew up in. Both houses are in Stoneybrook, Connecticut.) Mommy took Andrew and me with her.
After a while, Mommy and Daddy both got married again. But not to each other. Mommy married a man named Seth. He is my stepfather. Daddy married a woman named Elizabeth. She is my stepmother. Most os the time, Andrew and I live with Mommy and Seth. But every other weekend, and on holidays and vacations, we live at daddy's big house.
Here's who lives at the little house. Here's who live in the little house: Mommy, Seth, Andrew, me, Rocky, Midgie, and Emily Junior. Rocky and MIdgie are Seth's cat and dog. Emily Junior is my pet rat.
It is lucky Daddy's house is big, because here is who lives in it: Daddy, Elizabeth,Andrew, me, Nannie, Kristy, Charlie, Sam, David Michael, Emily Michelle, Shannon, Boo-Boo, Goldfishie, and Crystal Light the Second.
You see, Elizabeth was married once befor she married Daddy. Kristy, Charlie, Sam, and David Michael are her kids. ( They are my stepsisters an stepbrothers.) Kristy is thirteen. She baby-sits. I just love her. She is he best big sister. Charlie and Sam go to highschool. David Michael is seven like me. (But he does not go to my school.) Emily Michelle is my adopted sister. Daddy and Elizabeth adopted her from a faraway country called Vietnam. Emily is two and a half. ( I named my rat after her.) Nannie is Elizabeth's mother. She helps take care of us kids.
Okay, on to the pets. Shannon is David Michael's puppy.( She is big for a puppy.) Boo-Boo is Daddy's cross old tomcat. And Goldfishie and Crystal Light are fish. They belong to Andrew and me.
I have nicknames for my brother and me. I call us AndrewTwo-Two and Karen Two-Two. ( I got the idea from a book Ms. Colman read to our call. It was called Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang.) These are good names for us because we have 2 houses and 2 families, two mommies and 2 daddies, 2 cats and 2 dogs, and 2 of lots of other things. I have 2 pairs of sneakers, one at each house. I have two stuffed cats. Moosie stays at the bog house and Goodie stays at the small house. I even hve two pieces of Tickly, my special blanket. Plus, Andrew and I have clothes and books and toys at each house. That way, we do not have to pack much when we go back and forth.
Guess what else I have two of. I have 2 of best friends. Hannie Papadakis lives across the street from Daddy and one house down. Nancy Dawes lives next door to Mommy. Hannie and Nancy are in Ms. Colman's class, too. We call ourselves the three musketeers. Sometimes being a two-two is hard, but mostly it is okay. On the day of the mat quiz, I did not mind it. I was looking forward to a big-house weekend.
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