Jigsaws

My mother often quoted “Have one and spoil the child.” She said this because I wanted another sibling. She thought this was intended as exhortation rather than warning. The mother’s instinct to spoil her only child was thereby reinforced by a higher authority. I was so spoiled that on the day my parents unexpectedly came to pick me up from elementary school in the middle of the morning. I was about nine at the time I told the teacher that it was probably because that new game I wanted just came out. In fact it was to go to Norton 's where my grandmother was dying. I was also spoiled because I was always sick. I spent so much time away from elementary school that my school called Social Security to visit our house to see what was going on. …show more content…
I collected all sorts of cards, Toys, and comics. I loved arranging my things whatever they were putting them into some kind of order. I still love doing this. I spent much of my time doing jigsaws: things that you can do on your own. My mom had a particular way of doing jigsaws. We sorted out the side pieces then filled in the middle. Our approach to jigsaws was rigorous. I remember all them afternoons playing games on my own. I played Monopoly on my own.

A few years of playing by myself, I discovered another activity: reading. I had read book after book after book. I was so use to being bum elf that I thought my whole life would be like that. Well guess what that thought only lasted until I was fourth teen and my mom told me she was pregnant.

This was shocking but also hear warming. Even though I knew is was going to be 15 years old then my new brother or sister I was just happy to have a sibling. I was thinking that I don 't have to be alone anymore and that I will have someone to play with. Them thoughts was me being naive. I was so excited I thought about playing with a newborn know that they can 't even support they own