ly true, this year I was skipping a level at the gym and my new hours were extensive. I loved every minute of my time at the gym, but I was away a lot. If we were homeschooling

ad begun to say very mean things when they thought I couldn’t hear. I guess cats have excellen

work. Every four weeks we would sit down with Mrs. Barnes and talk about what I had learned in that month. She was so pleased that we actually did all our w

e could study anything that caught my int

s fun and anatomy was just memorizing, I couldn’t get enough. I added in Spanish and Latin on the internet. School

wn where he ran a think tank tasked by the government to try to figure out weather manipulation to end our constant drought status. The

onal toys on the shelves. I hadn’t played with toys since I was six. Mom had discreetly turned one corner of the attic into a hidden section where one would find the books I was currently interested i

somehow Mom could read! She told me they were so happy to hear from her, but that

le dramatic to me,

get together very soon as there was much they

?” I questioned envis

of Egypt.” Mom said flatly, lik

n the movies? With the sand storms, and the Sphin

t down, she turned to me. She smiled a coy smile. “I gu

ad grown up. She had not been on the island since she went off to school and hadn’t talked to any of them in all that time. My m

you keep a secret!” But out loud I sa

to think, and I did go to school there. That is where I met your f

at mushy stuff!” I could still

ing an email. Apparently, my “long lost” relatives didn’t live in the stone a

plaining to them that there was no way we could get to Egypt any time

She said, “They’re s