Little Jill

I just went through a box of my old things that were stored at my parents house. (It has been sitting in a trunk in my house for 3 years now.....).

We kept a journal in 4th grade. Some days were "free writing" and others were assigned topics. I get the feeling this was the first year they taught us D.A.R.E. Here are a few excerpts. Not much has changed :)

Nov.29, 1989
The thing that worries me the most is that people are taking drugs and it might get worse. I thnk that it should be against the law to even sell cigarettes. That way people who smoke wont smoke anymore. I also think that if people make cigarettes they should get arrested.

Dec. 1, 1989
I think boys get it easy because boys go and look for an easy job so he can leave the girl at home and have her do the chores. Boys just load the dishwasher. We unload them and dry them and put them away. We also have to take care of the children like getting ready for school and carpools.

March 14, 1990
If I was asked to make a ten minute speech, I would talk slow and the subject I would talk about would be about drugs. I would talk about drugs because I would want everybody to know all the harm drugs do to you.

March 29, 1990
No, I don't have too many chores, and if I could assign chores, I would keep the ones that my dad does. The ones my dad does is make hot chocolate in the morning, and come home at night and eat dinner, or help with homework.

May 8, 1990
On June 28, it is my birthday. I am going to get my ten speed bike. I cant wait. This time, my bike will be brand new. It wont be one from the garage that everyone has used. I can't wait.

June 1, 1990
I don't know if I will do as my parents expected when I grow up. I think I will do better than they hoped I would do or at least I hope so. But I don't know what I will be like when I grow up, I only know one thing that is going to happen when I grow up. It is that I will still have my sisters that I hate but won't hate them then, and I will always have my family and friends. But you have to play it by ear to see how you are going to be later on.

June 6, 1990
When I am 30 years old, I will have a job which is teaching. I will have a nice house, and when I wake up, I could go downstairs and have coffee on the table, then get dressed. I would go to school, teach and have fun. I would also be planning in the summer to be a camp nursery school teacher. After school was out I would sit down, grade papers, clean my desk, and do whatever teachers do when school is out. Then I would go home, and take some school stuff home to do too. I would go home in my red sports car, because school is too far away for the van. I would be home by about 3:00 and probably about 3 hours later my husband would get home. On my way home I would pick up my two toddlers and go home to cook them dinner or pick something up. Then after dinner, I would sit down and relax. My two 2-year olds could be in bed. My husband would be doing work like paying bills or still trying to put Amy & Leslie to bed (the kids had names????). After that my husband and I will eat because we would have already fed the children. Then I would relax and feed my hermit crab, turtle, and bird. In the morning at the breakfast table my husband would sit down and eat breakfast, and leave for work. I forgot to tell you about my house. It will be white and peach, it will be a two-story house in California so that in the summer on weekends we can go surfing. We will keep the surfing boards in the airconditioned garage along with rafts to go in the pool. I will have a playroom in the garage for the children. Inside will be my room with a water bed, and mirrors, and a big bathroom. The children will share a room.