...what I forgot the other day! It was to post my favourite entries from the 'What Makes You Smile?' competition that ran back in July, to celebrate the publication of 'Smile! It's Meant To Be Fun'. So here they are (at last!)...
“I went on a
school trip to Iceland and my suitcase didn't arrive, so I had to have new
T-shirts bought by the school, borrow PJs and go without a duvet (or, argh,
eyebrow tweezers – I looked like a yeti by the end). I gave up hope of ever
seeing it again... then as I was waiting for the others to get their bags back
at Heathrow, there was a shout and my teacher held up the suitcase! The entire
group cheered and clapped and everyone else started asking what had happened – even
the teachers were sure it was a miracle!”
Alice
“What made me
smiled recently is when I was moving house and I turned to have my last look at
it forever – cue the soppy violin music – and I smiled. I smiled because I was
so thankful my little room had been so good to me for all those years!”
Daisy
“Today on the
trampoline I did a back flip and it made me happy that I could do them.”
Charlotte
Bailey
“The other
day, I picked my sister (4) up from the childminder, and when we were coming
home we had a weird surge of randomness. Um... yes, we started skipping down
the road singing ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star’ at the tops of our voices and
couldn't stop laughing. It was the most fun I’ve had in ages!”
Kimmy
“What makes
me smile is a clear blue sky with
not a cloud in sight; an ice-cream van with a single tune, and my mum laughing
at a stupid joke of mine.”
Karen
“Cats make me
smile. And dogs. And spending long hours on the phone to my best friend who is
*sniff!* living in a different country to me. Eating egg in bread. Getting
glitter stuck to my fingers.”
Úna
“The thing
that got me smiling was watching my rat and kitten eating out of the same bowl.
They used to hate each other, but in the last few weeks they follow each other
around, and Perry (the rat) even sleeps on top of Cleo (the kitten)!!”
Harpreet
“I have been
in hospital since 5th January. Being allowed home for the weekend makes me
smile. Acting and dancing makes me smile. My brother makes me smile. Reading
books by Karen McCombie makes me smile.”
Sophie