When we got home, I was dusty and my sneakers were all muddy. Mom asked us how it was. I just gave her a big thumbs up.
I said, "Do you even know how?" They both looked at each other and said, "How hard can it be?" A Day with Dad and Uncle Tom by Sheila Robins 11yo 121
We ate lunch at the diner. Dad ordered a burger. Uncle Tom ordered the same thing, plus a milkshake with two straws. They both drank from it at the same time, which was disgusting and funny. The waitress said, "Are you twins?" Dad said, "No, but we share a brain." Uncle Tom said, "A very small one." When we got home, I was dusty and my sneakers were all muddy
I scrambled out of bed, my heart thumping with excitement. We were going to the Great Pine Forest, a place Uncle Tom swore was filled with magic and the biggest pinecones in the world. I said, "Do you even know how