Lake Charles, Louisiana, April 6, 2014~

Howdy from Cajun Country!!

This is your friend, Amerycal Grace Richard, writing.  I am now ten years old (or will be on July 4 this year).  Hope this finds y'all well and happy!

Well, I'm not exactly happy: it's raining cats and dogs out there: we're under severe weather watches and warnings, including the possibility of large hail and tornadoes.  I don't like storms; they have always scared me.  I pray we don't get anything too scary here!!

In the meantime, I'm trying to entertain myself and try to keep my three-year-old brother, Creighton Eriq, outta my things.  It's not working too well; he's already ripped up two of my paperback books and I'm ready to BRAIN HIM!!!!

I don't do that to his things; why, then must he ALWAYS get into MY stuff????

I want to slam him on his head with my crutches, he irritates the fire out of me!!

I'm now walking with crutches.  Have been doing that for nearly two years; I love it 'cause I have more freedom and can go anywhere I want without much trouble.  Better than being stuck in my wheelchair all the time (though if we go somewhere like the zoo or to a festival, or to the mall, the wheelchair comes with us 'cause there's just too much walking and I would get tired out quickly).  

I've been growing: I'm now nearly as tall as Maman.  I'm still short, but nothing like I was.  I had a serious growth spurt last year; I gained six inches in height!!  I can wear Maman's clothes!!!!  

And she can wear mine!!  We're always borrowing from each other!  :)

I'm now in the fourth grade.  Or will be once school starts back up in August (four months from now).  I just hope I have a better teacher this year; this year's teacher, the one I have now, Miss Nicely, is anything BUT nice.  She is MEAN!!!!!  Not so much at me, but at the other kids; she is always getting after them and people are always getting into trouble.  I think she personally likes to hear the sound of her own voice ....  I don't really care for her ....

Well, I hate to run, but the tornado sirens are blaring and the sky is turning mighty dark; I pray we don't get hit by a severe storm .... it's also thundring and lightning like sixty outside; I don't like this ... pray we make it through in one piece!!  I will write again soon; sorry for the long delay in updating my story!  Take care; God bless!  Pray we make it through this bad weather!!

~Amerycal.