Friday, August 12, 4:18 PM. Trevor.

Everyone is gone. At first I was scared. I am not scared anymore. My mom and dad take care of us. I miss my friends and Mimi and Papa.

We eat supper at night. The food we have now is not so good but I still get my favorite that is macaroni and cheese. After supper we do Bible time. We read the Bible and talk then we pray. Then we sing. We take turns for who gets to play. Garrett plays guitar or I play piano or Claire does. I am the best. Mom has a very beautiful voice. Dad has a terrible voice, but he knows so he sings quiet.

We play games. Claire always likes to play charades and her ankle is mostly better. We also play Twister and Boggle and UNO and hearts sometimes. My favorite is Settlers of Catan. Claire hates it but that’s okay because it only lets four play. We never used to play paper games so much. I like it.

After that we clean the kitchen. We take turns who. Dad reads to us. He has read to us a long time, but now he reads longer. His voice is bad when he sings but great when he reads. We read Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. We read The Lord of the Rings before, but we stopped. It’s not scary, but Mom says it’s too scary right now. I have nightmares sometimes and so does everyone and Mom says we don’t need extra help being freaked out.

We are very busy all the time. I help Garrett take care of the pools. We have to take our trash down the street because there are no garbage trucks.

We made a garden in the backyard. We need fresh vegetables. The store doesn’t have any. Mom says nothing grows here except tomatoes and peppers and squash. The good news is winter is far away. I wanted to grow pumpkins for Halloween. There might not be Halloween. There is no one else’s house to go to.

Claire and I like to explore. Claire limps but she can ride the bike. Mom doesn’t like us gone but we have walkie-talkies and she checks on us like every five minutes.

Dad brought me tons of Legos. If I get bored I build things. I get bored a lot. I built a coyote out of all gray bricks that can move its legs and head. I built a spaceship and a city and the spaceship came and blew up all the buildings. Louis Armstrong broke my spaceship. Garrett says he probably thought it was a bird.