Altamont, Kansas / Population 1,019

Today we are meeting up with my grandma, we call her Grandmaday because my mom would always say "want to go to grandma's today" and in our minds that shortened to grandma day and the name just stuck. We are going to visit precious moments in Missouri so I put on my favorite dress and tights and my Mary Jane shoes and I know Grandmaday will think I am so pretty!

We (me and my older brother and sister) walk alone to the local grocery store a few blocks away. The clerk knows us by name and there is always a wicker basket of free candy by the register. But today is different, we have a little bit of spare change, so my sister tells me we can pick a single candy from the wall by check out. We take the long way home and stop by the fruit tree on the side of the road.

I'm 4 and putting on my socks to go to church on Sunday morning. I wonder what is the purpose of the lace around my ankle. Why can't I pull these socks up higher? And why do they appear to be folded downward but I cannot unfold them? It's time to go.

There is a shed in the garden around back. Its mostly empty but there is a small table with a dirty old type writer. It won't actually type but we pound the buttons so fast anyways! We are office workers or school teachers or writers! We are anything we want to be in the nearly empty shed around back.

I'll be 6 soon! For some reason I live farther away now but we sometimes come back to Altamont and stay with my dad. He's busy working and cannot come live with us in Missouri. Tonight we are having corndogs and Mac and cheese! My Favorite!