here even though you’ve been gone for over half a year? If you could still live here, would you?
I wrote myself a note about the houses and I want you to look at it. Writing itall down is helping me figure things out. After you read my notes, please call….
Please, oh, please.
Oh….. and I am trying to convince my mom to send me to summer camp, the same place you are going. (I’m pretty sure that it will work…. because I think that she feels a little guilty about my being so upset about the move.)
Anyway, here’s my notes about the houses.
Amber Brown’s Thoughts about
the Search for the Perfect House!
Okay, let me begin by saying that there is no perfect house….. not perfect for all three of us (me, Max and Mom)….. not perfect for any one of us….. There were some things that we all loved…. some that two of usloved and some that only one of us loved…. and some that we all hated….. All of the houses had the basics…kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms.
We have narrowed it down to two houses….. that’s the good news…. The bad news is that one of the houses is NOT in town….. and the even worse news is that it is wonderful….. a swimming pool in the backyard…. a real in-the-ground swimming pool. There are three stories to the house and my bedroom would be on the third floor in a round room that looks like the tower of a castle…. It is so magical….. I looked out the windows and I could see the swimming pool, the wishing well and woods behind thegarden area….. There’s a fireplace in the living room and one in the kitchen.…
Max and Mom say that the bad news is that the house is a “fixer-upper” and would take a lot of time and money to get it all fixed up. I think that the bad news is that it is two towns away, and I would have to switch schools.
The second house is in town.
There is no swimming pool and not a lot of land.
The house is brand-new and is in “wonderful shape” (the real estate lady kept saying that)….. It’s an okay house, but it is very boring. The one really good thing is that it is in the same new development as my friend Kelly Green (and another classmate, Hal).
Max and Mom like the first housebecause it is so unique…. they like the second house because it is so new, it does not need repairs….. The fireplace in the second house does not have a family of birds living in it. (The first house does!) Mom thinks that the first house is “totally charming.” She likes the second house because it has all new air conditioners, a finished basement, a lot of closets, all brand-new appliances. There is even a continuous-cleaning oven. (I personally think that it’s a little strange to have an oven that cleans itself…. although I do wish that it had a bedroom for me that cleaned itself!!)
Max and Mom say that since she is selling our house, and he is selling his apartment, we can afford either house…. That’s more of the good news…. The bad news is that if we buy the wonderful first house, there will be more money tospend on fixing it up, and we will have to be much more careful about spending money on things like vacations.
If we buy the second house, I can stay at the same school with all of my friends. I will still be able to easily get to the place where my dad lives and I will be able to see the Marshalls as often as I do now.
If I am at the first house, I can invite everyone around here (except for my dad) to go swimming in our pool. Max did say that he would have to teach me how to help clean the pool and it would be my job to take out any frogs or skunks that fell into the pool. (I think that he is kidding….. but I’m not absolutely sure about that.)
Max and Mom are not sure which house is best…. They are going to think about it, and they want me tothink about it, and then we will talk about it. (They are afraid that someone else will bid on whichever house we decide on….. so we have to decide quickly.)
That’s the end of
I wrote myself a note about the houses and I want you to look at it. Writing itall down is helping me figure things out. After you read my notes, please call….
Please, oh, please.
Oh….. and I am trying to convince my mom to send me to summer camp, the same place you are going. (I’m pretty sure that it will work…. because I think that she feels a little guilty about my being so upset about the move.)
Anyway, here’s my notes about the houses.
Amber Brown’s Thoughts about
the Search for the Perfect House!
Okay, let me begin by saying that there is no perfect house….. not perfect for all three of us (me, Max and Mom)….. not perfect for any one of us….. There were some things that we all loved…. some that two of usloved and some that only one of us loved…. and some that we all hated….. All of the houses had the basics…kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms.
We have narrowed it down to two houses….. that’s the good news…. The bad news is that one of the houses is NOT in town….. and the even worse news is that it is wonderful….. a swimming pool in the backyard…. a real in-the-ground swimming pool. There are three stories to the house and my bedroom would be on the third floor in a round room that looks like the tower of a castle…. It is so magical….. I looked out the windows and I could see the swimming pool, the wishing well and woods behind thegarden area….. There’s a fireplace in the living room and one in the kitchen.…
Max and Mom say that the bad news is that the house is a “fixer-upper” and would take a lot of time and money to get it all fixed up. I think that the bad news is that it is two towns away, and I would have to switch schools.
The second house is in town.
There is no swimming pool and not a lot of land.
The house is brand-new and is in “wonderful shape” (the real estate lady kept saying that)….. It’s an okay house, but it is very boring. The one really good thing is that it is in the same new development as my friend Kelly Green (and another classmate, Hal).
Max and Mom like the first housebecause it is so unique…. they like the second house because it is so new, it does not need repairs….. The fireplace in the second house does not have a family of birds living in it. (The first house does!) Mom thinks that the first house is “totally charming.” She likes the second house because it has all new air conditioners, a finished basement, a lot of closets, all brand-new appliances. There is even a continuous-cleaning oven. (I personally think that it’s a little strange to have an oven that cleans itself…. although I do wish that it had a bedroom for me that cleaned itself!!)
Max and Mom say that since she is selling our house, and he is selling his apartment, we can afford either house…. That’s more of the good news…. The bad news is that if we buy the wonderful first house, there will be more money tospend on fixing it up, and we will have to be much more careful about spending money on things like vacations.
If we buy the second house, I can stay at the same school with all of my friends. I will still be able to easily get to the place where my dad lives and I will be able to see the Marshalls as often as I do now.
If I am at the first house, I can invite everyone around here (except for my dad) to go swimming in our pool. Max did say that he would have to teach me how to help clean the pool and it would be my job to take out any frogs or skunks that fell into the pool. (I think that he is kidding….. but I’m not absolutely sure about that.)
Max and Mom are not sure which house is best…. They are going to think about it, and they want me tothink about it, and then we will talk about it. (They are afraid that someone else will bid on whichever house we decide on….. so we have to decide quickly.)
That’s the end of
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