Leaving

We sold are house and we are leaving New Mexico today.

Winning story!

This is my story: 

 Small, the little lost penguin

Small was a little penguin and he wanted to be with his mother. His father told him that he would have to wait and that they could not go to her. He remembered his mother going to get food and leaving him with his father, but he wanted to find his mother and be with her.

One day Small decided that he would go and look for his mother. He knew that he couldn't tell his father or his father wouldn't let him go. One day when there was a thin sheet of snow falling, he was able to slip away quite easily. After about half an hour he started getting quite cold. He discovered that if he curled up he would warm up very quickly. So he continued curling up every half an hour or so. The journey was long and he got very lonesome. Once he found a midge to play with, but it soon flew away.

Day after day, Small continued tracking his mother until he was miles away from the colony. One day, after a rather bad snowstorm,he saw a hawk circling above his head. He remembered his father telling him to run to a fully grown penguin if he ever saw a hawk. But now, there wasn't anyone to run to! Small panicked and ran-- smack!--right into... his mother! His mother scared away the hawk and they started their journey back to the colony.

The journey home was hard because Small's mother was young and did not know the way back. She had planned on following the other penguins. They saw a wolf once and hid in a small cave. After a few days, Small began to get worried because they had gone further than he had gone to get there. His thoughts were interrupted by a call that was not his mother's. There were more penguins about! Then, moments later, he was looking straight into the face of his father! They were home!

Small grew up to be a fine big penguin and told his story to his children and grandchildren, and they passed it on to their children and grandchildren; that is how I came to know Small's story.