CHAPTER TWO
There were pictures of her Mommy bringing home a newborn Emma from the hospital, wrapped in a yellow blanket decorated with ducks. She was smiling happily as she sat on the big red couch in their living room.
There was a picture of five-year-old Emma playing in the backyard with her Daddy as he pushed her on the swing. She was laughing gleefully as she soared through the air.
There were pictures of Emma with her friends from school and her cousins, eating birthday cake at her slumber parties or splashing in the sprinklers in her front yard.
There were pictures of Emma playing Frisbee with Sammy and sitting on her Grandpa's lap at Thanksgiving.
Emma had so many memories in this house, and so many people that she loved close by. Mapleton was so far away.
Will my new house and new friends be as much fun? Will i make lots of new memories?
Emma stood up with the shoe box of photographs and placed them inside the first card- board moving box. She began to fill the rest of the box with her favorite things-the teddy bear her Daddy brought to the hospital when she was born, the red-and-white jump rope she and her friends used in her yard for hours, and Olivia, her favorite doll.
Emma closed the flaps to her box and picked up the red magic marker her Mommy gave her to label what was inside.
On the front of the box, she wrote in large letters, "Memories.”
