Monday 26 February 2007

My Three Wishes...

When I was a little kid, I used to write down wishes on bits of paper and put them under my pillow, or sometimes, hide them in odd places in the garden, for the fairies to find. I always half-expected that they would be gone in the morning, or that the paper would have gone blank or something like that. They didn't, but I still believed that the fairies had read them..

One time, just before my seventh birthday I think it was, I got a big shock, because under my wish on the piece of paper was another line, in sparkly gold writing, which said, ' Wish noted and filed. Action will be taken.'

And on my birthday, I got the thing I wished for--which happened to be a fairy princess doll, dressed in the most amazing dress that looked like it had been cut out of sky, and gleaming silver shoes. She had a wand, too, and a crown, and beautiful wings that looked like those of dragonflies. And there was a little card with her, in the same gold sparkly writing as before, which read, 'My name is Princess Celestine. I'm on a visit to your world, so please look after me.'

It was a doll like I'd never, ever seen in the shops, and for a long, long time I was sure it proved that fairies existed...

Anyway, I'm not a little kid any more, and I don't believe those sorts of things anymore. But I still like writing wishes down and seeing if they'll come true. This time, though, I'm not going to do it on a piece of paper, but on this blog. Just in case the fairies are up to date and read blogs these days instead of bits of paper!

These are my three wishes, oh Fairy Godmother of the Web:

1/To win the lottery so Aunt Jenny doesn't have to scrimp and save all the time and we can stop worrying about money;

2/To have something exciting happen to me, because I want to be a really good bestselling writer one day, and how can you be that, if nothing ever happens to you but going to school every day and hanging out with your friends on weekends;

3/A pair of silver shoes--and not the sort that dance you to death, or anything horrible like that, just a really nice pair of silver shoes that fit me perfectly and look really good. The sorts of shoes Princess Celestine had, but my size.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

well Rose I reckon your 3 wishes are OK but the one about silver shoes is a bit weird..Mum used to have a pair of those, they were real high silver sandals with sequins on the top..she wore them to dances and so on and then later they got put in the dress up box and mim and me used to take turns at getting around in them..

Unknown said...

i'd love to win the lottery too! i'd go for a trip round the world and have a real spending spree..the silver shoes are ok but i think the 'exciting thing to happen' could be a bit dangerous, Rosie!

Unknown said...

for once i agree with maddy! careful what you wish for, Rose! Exciting things can be exciting in a bad way..

Unknown said...

well, yes i know that, still it's no good asking for wishes you don't really want, is it? anyway don't suppose anyone's really out there listening so it doesn't matter..