Soul in a Bowl 

by Michaella Moore
Grade 4
IDDS

Mmmm...you hear the sizzling of the turkey in the oven.  You can smell that cornbread cooking.  But your not doing the cooking.  You're playing with JoJo in your bedroom.  

Can't wait to eat chicken and sweet potatoes.  Mama tells you to go to the store.  She's out of pepper.  You say look in the cabinets and the drawer.  I know there's some pepper.  I used it yesterday.  Found it, Mama yells.

Then you take a nap and wake up to the noise of green beans going ssss in the pan.  Everybody's in the living room watching my favorite show, "Love and Live with It."  I run into the room and splat down on the fluffy cream chair. 

Dad says wash your hands, in my ear, a whisper so quiet I almost couldn't hear.  But I heard it enough to scream out loud:

TIME TO EAT!