I mean, MY MOM AND DAD WERE COMING HOME THE NEXT DAY! All in capitals! Me and Tess were so excited, with a big, huge, humongous, capital E. Aunt Flora started singing the song that Snow White sings when she’s cleaning up the dwarfs’ house. It’s the one that goes: “Just whistle while you work and hum a merry tune.” It has a lot more words; but we didn’t know what they were, so we just sang that over and over. We also did some tap dancing and some jumping on furniture, and it turned out that cleaning up can actually be sort of fun. Tess was in charge of picking toys up off the floor, and I was in charge of putting them away. Aunt Flora was in charge of vacuuming and dishes and anything else she thought of. All of a sudden, between the singing and tap dancing and cleaning, I heard the doorbell ringing and ringing, so I ran and opened it a crack. “Finally!” yelled Rosemary T. “Just a second,” I said. “I’ll go tell my aunt I’m going outside.” I shut the door and started to run to Tess’s bedroom, where Aunt Flora was vacuuming; but Rosemary T.
