As I looked into my grandparent’s puppy’s little black eyes, I thought about what brings her joy. You can throw her a extremely annoying squeaker toy, and she will have the time of her life chewing and squeaking that toy. You can pick her up and she will give you thousands of face kisses. So many things bring her joy, and people have to go out of their way to bring us joy, like throwing a party or buying a present. Puppies will basically enjoy everything you do with them. We should be more like dogs and let little things bring us joy too, whether a relative calls you who you haven’t seen in a while or just a plain old hug. I want to be more like Sophie and let little things make me happy.

My heart was beating, my throat felt dry, as I saw about 70 eyes on me and on 2 other dancers. I was in my place as faint music stated playing, and got louder. I start doing my steps and I was smiling trying to hide my nervousness. As I kept doing my dance I saw my 3 of my best friends watching me.

I got more fear inside of me, so I say the Irish steps in my head. We were almost done with the dance and I was tired and hot. I looked over at my dance teacher, a big smile was on her face I could tell she thought we were doing really good. As we finished the dance I hurried over to the side of the room, breathing with relief that I did not mess up terribly. I quickly grabbed a drink of water for my extremely dry throat. I smiled with happiness as I got ready for my next performance of Irish dancing. Again I was smiling and trying not to think about how many people were watching us.

It was that time of morning, the time where I take the dogs outside. I lazily put on my coat and boots not thinking about a hat or gloves, because it has been warmer the past few days. As I took them outside my eyes landed on a fresh new layer of white powder on my porch. A cold wind past through me as I shivered and tried to snuggle into my coat for warmth. I looked over to my dogs who were joyously prancing in the snow, no care in the world. I wondered how something so cold could make them so happy and satisfied. I brought one dog inside as he happily jumped onto the porch. I called in my other dog and it looked as though a frown appeared on his face. As I walked into my warm house with relief that I was finally inside, I thought about how excited I was for spring to come.

” We left the invisibility cloak.” I am at a great part in my book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. When I was reading today I felt as if I were a person in the book. I pictured going to the top of Hogwarts behind Harry, Hermione, and Ron with an invisibility cloak on all of us, and Harry holding a large cage with a dragon in it. We were leaving the dragon for Ron’s brother, Charlie, to pick up. When we all got to the top we dropped the dragon and left. When we got back to ground, we all realized we forgot the invisibility cloak and we’re in plain sight for Mrs.Gonagall to see us all outside of Hogwarts past curfew.

*dog whining*  I lay in my bed wondering if I should let my dog in as I remember it was a snow day again! I look over at my alarm clock, 7:48 a.m. I thought to myself, ” why can’t I go back to sleep after 7:00 a.m?” So I tiredly walk over to my door and let in my dogs. They rush over to my bed and as I am getting back into bed they lick my face. I lay in my bed petting them for a very long time thinking, today is going to be a great snow day.