jeanette

hi! i'm jeanette :) i'm 11 years old with an older sister, a younger brother, and a younger sister. my superhero is my dad, he's a genius!

[youngjeannette]

When Dad wasn’t telling us about all the amazing things he had already done, he was telling us about the wondrous things he was going to do. Like build the Glass Castle. All of Dad’s engineering skills and mathematical genius were coming together in one special project: a great big house he was going to build for us in the desert

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why do you want to become a reporter?

I once met a newspaper reporter and I was inspired! 

A newspaper reporter, instead of holing up in isolation, was in touch with the rest of the world. What the reporter wrote influenced what people thought about and talked about the next day; he knew what was really going on. I decided I wanted to be one of the people who knew what was really going on.

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what do you want to be when you grow up?

A reporter! 

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dad’s unfulfilled promise

dad didn’t end up keeping this promise. he tied himself to the bed for ten days to stop drinking, for my birthday present. but when the lady called us poor, he broke our promise.... 

maybe dad isn’t who i thought he always was

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dad's promise

jeannette: “I wonder what life will be like now,”

lori: “The same, [Dad] tried stopping before, but it never lasted.”

jeanette: “This time it will.”

lori: “How do you know?”

jeanette: “It’s his present to me.”

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don’t sink, swim

Dad kept telling me that he loved me, that he never would have let me drown, but you can’t cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is “If you don’t want to sink, you better figure out how to swim.”

[chibird]

A tough puppy with a pink bow has something to say to you! 🎀 You’re doing great for making it through all those days!

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daddy's present

We laughed about the all the kids who believed in the Santa myth and got nothing for Christmas but a bunch of cheap plastic toys.

dad: “Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you’ll still have your stars."

[wobblyshika]

I'm no scientist but I'm pretty sure this is accurate 😂😂

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so funnyyy 

[ripnicolle]

My first time participating a DTIYS and it’s @/beckycas_ on instagram!! This little baby cup with some magical and mysterious drink is the cutest thing ever!

[chibird]

We can never predict life’s ups and downs, or which way it’ll turn us next. But despite not always going as planned, life finds a way to bring us to where we’re meant to be. 

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dad said arizona is our home now... apparently there’s a lot of cacti there? 

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hehe it’s lori, brian, and maureen as bears! 

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That was the thing about the hospital. You never had to worry about running out of stuff like food or ice or even chewing gum. I would have been happy staying in that hospital forever.

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teacher mom! 

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