A Day spent with Elizabeth Green!!

It was a beautiful day at the Greens house, the sun was shining the birds were singing and Elizabeth was still fast asleep in her bed…………
“Wake up dear,” said her mother as she gently took off the blanket covering Elizabeth’s head.
“We’ve got lots of work to do, now put on your warm clothes and come join us outside, we’re all busy harvesting the crops!”
“Okay mom, I’ll get ready.” said Elizabeth as her mom left the room. And as usual after she had said her morning prayer she put on her warm clothes and went outside to join her family out in the fields.
“Good morning everyone,” said Elizabeth as she walked towards her family “Is there anything I can do to help??” She asked anxiously.
“Well, you can start by racking the leaves, they’re always getting in the way this time of year!” replied her oldest brother Ralph.
“Of coarse,” she Elizabeth as she grabbed the rake from her brothers hands “whatever you say!!” she said with a big sigh. She had hated racking the leaves but, and somehow she was stuck with it every year.
But although she wouldn’t admit it, fall had been her favourite season of all, and she loved seeing all the different colors of the leaves. But this year everything looked like it came out of a magazine their house especially, with all the different colors of leaves on the trees that surrounded her house, to Elizabeth it looked just magical. But she knew that it would soon be covered with the dreadful snow.
After about 2 hours of working the family all went inside for breakfast and while her mom was preparing the pancakes they all listened to what their father had to say “ Okay everyone listen up” he started “today’s going to be a hectic day so I suggest we all pitch in a bit. First of all this morning I heard it was going to snow in a week so we all have to help with the crops or else we’ll run out of time and not have enough food for the winter.”
“Does that include me??” asked Elizabeth.
“No sweetheart,” her mother replied “you’re only 12 and still not old enough to drive the threshing machine, but I’ll be helping them so I expect you to make us dinner, because I don’t think I’ll have the time is that okay with you??”
“Of COURSE!!” Elizabeth practically screamed “anything for you mom!!”
When they were all done eating their breakfast the men all went outside to continue harvesting the crops while Elizabeth and her mom stayed inside to clean the house up a bit. And by the time they were all done cleaning the house, the church bell rang and it was time for lunch.
“Mom?” asked Elizabeth “the church bell rang do you want me to get something for lunch?”
“Yes dear.” answered her mother “You can get some bread and some dried fruit from the root cellar.”
When Elizabeth got the bread and the dried fruit they all headed to the fields where the men worked.
“Thanks ladies,” said James her second oldest brother “lunch was great! But we should probably get back to work; those crops aren’t going to harvest themselves!”
“You’re right!” said her mother solemnly “Elizabeth dear go start on dinner. The chickens all ready on the kitchen counter so all you have to do is put it in the oven and make us a salad okay”
“Alright mom, I’ll start on dinner” Elizabeth said as she raced off.
And although she wouldn’t admit it she loved cooking and it hadn’t been her first time making a dinner for her family, in fact it had been her 3rd time making dinner for her family and she had enjoyed it very much! But all her attention had been drawn away when her horse gave a big whiney. And suddenly she remembered about the fact that she hadn’t fed her horse in about a day!!! She went into the barn and tried to calm her down with a piece of hay.
“Hey there Margaret don’t be scared,” she said to her horse
“It’s just me Elizabeth; hey you must be lonely in here. Hey I know how about I brush you a bit.”
Elizabeth spent the following 2 ½ hours brushing her horse, when she remembered about the dinner.
“Oh no!!” she said to herself “dinner is in half an hour!!!”
And she raced off to the house. When she got there she darted for the kitchen and put the chicken in the oven as fast as she could, not noticing that she put it on high instead of low. Then she VERY quickly prepared a salad, and she was so proud of herself and decided to take a nap.
15 minutes later Elizabeth woke up to the sound of her mothers yelling, when she looked up all she could see was smoke , then she clicked she had put the oven on high and now if she didn’t take it out very fast the whole house would catch on fire! She was about to take the chicken out of the oven when her mother stepped in. And before she had a chance to say anything Elisabeth said:
“ I’m sorry mom, I left it until last minute and had to rush it all. And I had fallen asleep and hadn’t even noticed that I put the oven on high. Oh Mom PLEASE forgive me!!’
“Of course, I forgive you,” her mother started “ I just aspect you to do as you’re told next time understood!”
“ Yes Mom,” she replied.
“ Good, now go check in the root cellar, there’s a fish in there that your brother caught this morning. We can eat that tonight.”
“Thanks Mom You’re the best!”


THE END!