My name is Erin Brown and I’m 7 years old!  I just moved to Minisville, Maine, and I’m not sure I’m really excited about this.  I left all my friends behind and now I’m all alone here.  My mommy, Dairie Brown, said that we had to move here for daddy’s job.  I begged and begged them not to come here.  I wanted to stay in Ohio.  I told daddy I didn’t care what we had to do, he could even work as a butcher!  But no.  We had to move.

I don’t try to make mommy mad.  I really don’t, honestly.  But I think it’s like when I get really tired.  I get angry too when I’m tired.  And she’s not been sleeping well.  They think I don’t hear them, but when daddy comes home…  I’ve been kinda having trouble sleeping lately.  Maybe it’s the new house

I met a girl and her name is Hope Wilson and she’s kind of mean when you first meet her, but she gets nicer later on.  And Hope invited me down to the Creek so we went down to the Creek and we played and splashed around.  Mommy got a bit mad because I got mud in my hair and she told me a lady shouldn’t get mud in her hair, but I had a lot of fun and Hope was really nice to me and really glad I have a friend.