WALL ART
I was having a sad day today because I was all alone. I have a big broom that I share with my sisters and there are lots of things to do. In our room we have a table and we draw lots of things for daddy and mummy and uncle John, but not Alex cause he’s mean. Today my sisters went with mummy to the museum, and I had to stay home cause I ran off without telling where I was going, and I made mummy, and daddy very worried. My daddy is busy today painting some of the walls in the parlor, and I have to stay in my room. I’m mad bout that but I got to stay here or I get spanked and I don’t like those.
Having to be alone is very boring. Louisa likes to be alone. She played with her baby, and plays house and goes to the store, but I like to play with my sisters. Maybe if I draw a picture for my daddy he will let me come out of my room. At my table are lots of crayons. Well four of them, Green yellow and blue and red.
After I got my paper out, I drew a circle, and made a face, and then scribbled on it. Thats Louisa, and I’m mad at her cause she told daddy and mummy on me about when I runned of. I took out another picture and made stars and a flower. I think my mummy may have this one.
This is too boring. I’m going to go see my daddy now. As I walked down the stairs I smelled paint, and it was stinky. “Daddy I’m done being in my room,” I said sitting on the top step. He was just wearing jeans with no shirt on, and Mummy would have liked that. My mummy and daddy kiss lots, and me and my sisters giggle at that.
“And you have until three to get in there before I come and spank you, do you remember what I said?” he asked. I’m more brave than Louisa and Rebecca so I stayed where I was.
“But there is nothing to do daddy,” I said sadly.
He began to count. “One,” he said. I still sat where I was.
“Two,” he said and started to walk toward me. After I got spanked yesterday for going away, I decided not to get another one, and ran to my room. He didn’t come after me which was very good, but I was still bored.
On my bed sat Rosa, she’s my baby, and I don’t play with her much, but we do talk. “Rosa what do you want to do?” I asked. I held her to my ear and laughed because she thought up a fun game for us.
Rosa told me we should go in mummy’s room and hide daddy’s car keys. I think thats a very grand idea. We snuck out of our room very, very softly, and went down the hall to his room. His keys were on the chair, and we took them and put them in the toilet in his bathroom then shut lid.
After we did that we went back to our room so daddy wouldn’t find out we were out. “Now what do you want to do?” I asked my baby. She made me happy again, because she wanted us to make a picture on our wall.
Once I gotted my crayons, I sat down and began to color. For a little bit I just colored. Then I thought that a picture would look good. I made a rainbow, then I made the sun.
“Elizabeth Christina O’Connell,” I heard my daddy say. I dropped my crown, and stood up facing him. He didn’t look very happy, and I put my hands over my bottom because I didn’t want to be spanked. My mean daddy got our corner stool, and pulled it to the wall, then gave me two spanks and sat me down.
“Don’t move,” he said as I cried. I don’t know why my daddy is so mean to me. I think he hates me sometimes. When he came back he had paint and fixed my drawing, and made it disappear. When he was done, he came back to me, and picked me up, and sat down with me in the rocking chair. I think I’m to big for it, cause I’m five but this time I let him hold me. “Why do you hate me?” I asked my daddy as I hid my face against his chest.
I heard my daddy sigh. “Elizabeth I love you very much, but when you do things that are wrong, then I’m going to punish you,” he said. I just cried more then. I hated being grounded, and I wanted to go to the museum with my sisters. “Daddy I threw your car keys in the toilet,” I said.
I heard him sigh again, but he didn’t get mad at me. When I stopped crying he read me my favorite story, Cinderella, and I went to sleep.
~*~
When I woke up Rebecca and Louisa were playing house, and they made me smile. “I want to play too,” I told them. They brought me my baby and we all had a good time even if I was being grounded.