This month I read We’ll Always Have Summer” by Jenny Han. This story was about A teenage girl named Belly and her whole life she has been in love with the Fishers. Susanna was like a second mother to her, Conrad was her first love, and Jeremiah was her first real boyfriend. Now, after two years, Jeremiah gets down on one knee and offers belly what she has always wanted… to be Belly Fisher. As Jeremiah and Belly head back to Cousins Beach to plan their wedding, Conrad comes home to tell Belly he made a mistake when he broke her heart. Now Belly must confront her feelings for Jeremiah and Conrad and face a truth she has possibly always known. She will have to break one of their hearts but who will it be? I enjoyed the book so much because it always kept me on the edge of my seat. You never knew what was going to happen next because one second Belly was in love with Jeremiah then the next she catches feelings again for Conrad. All the characters in the story were so unpredictable and it really made the book fun and exciting but also, romantic and moody. My favorite character in the story was Jeremiah. He was my favorite because he always wanted there to be no tension and always so considerate. My favorite trait that describes him is caring! I think he was my favorite because we have similar ideas in life. We always want everything to be exciting and a fun adventure but wants everyone around us to feel cared for and wanted. An example of him being caring is when he says “What kind of flowers do you want for the wedding?” (pg. 101) This quote stood out to me because it showed me how much Jeremiah wanted this wedding to be special for Belly. Sometimes all a girl needs to feel special is to be able to pick out something so small like flowers in a wedding! My favorite quote from the story is from Conrad. It says “ when Conrad Fisher told a girl, he loved her, he meant it.” This quote felt meaningful because not often do you come across a guy that won’t say things just so you will like him. Conrad only says things that he means when he means it and not for any other reason at any other time.

The quote that I am choosing from Dumbledore is “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, when one only remembers to turn on the light.” This quote means that you can always find happiness even if you feel like you can’t but the only way to find it is to have hope in finding it. I have experienced this when I was incredibly sad, emotional, and thought that one of my goals of getting a dog before August wouldn’t happen. Every time I tried to have a serious conversation with my dad about getting a dog he would just shoot me down right away every single time. Then I saw the light in the situation and thought one day I will 100% get a dog even if it means next month or next year. I tried my best to understand my dad’s reasoning and once he saw that I was excepting his rules he trusted me and my family with a dog and we did get one before August! Thanks for reading my blog and I will see you next time on Charlottes Key to the World.

My hero is my mom. My mom is my hero because she does so many different jobs and I find it jaw dropping. Here is all her jobs! She owns and works at a laundromat, she does dishes all day for four people, she is a housekeeper, babysitter for two children, takes care of a crazy dog that acts like she drank fifty cups of coffee, she helps out her better half with all of his work, is a personal taxi driver for all of the children she knows, is a personal tutor for the children that she lives with, and she gets all this done every single day as a stay at home mom. I could only dream to be as persistent, persevering, and as strong as she is because what she does in a day would take me a week! My mom is and always will be there for me, and no matter what, will help out in any, and I mean ANY way she possibly can. It could be from helping clean up a mess that she wasn’t even apart of, or making her kids lunches and preparing their backpacks for school the next morning. These are only a few of the reasons why I deeply admire my mom.

My word of intention for 2024 is persistence. There many reasons for why I am going to focus on this year. I am going to stay persistent with daily routines. Doing this will make me feel accomplished and ready to strive my best and work my hardest. Another thing I would like to stay persistent with is downtime from electronics. I know that sometimes I will try to set a limit for myself on my phone but get carried away and stay on for too long. For me to do this I will set a screen time limit for myself on all of the apps that I feel I use most. It will lock the app completely so I can’t even access it. For me it will be a sign that I need to get up and get active! I would like to stay persistent with putting myself first more. I am very used to putting everyone I know first and I am not focusing enough on taking care of myself and asking myself, “Do I feel like I have put time into myself and do I feel ready for what is coming?” This is why I would choose persistence for my word of 2024 and I hope to see you next time on Charlottes Key too the World!

This month I read Its not Summer Without You by Jenny Han. This book was about Belly Conklin and Jeremiah Fisher trying to bring Conrad Fisher (Jeremiahs brother) home because he has college finals and he was going to miss them. He was at the summer house but little did Belly and Jeremiah know, Conrad was trying to get the summer house back. Mr. Fisher which is Conrad and Jeremiahs dad, was trying to sell the house because he thought it was no good having it, if Susannah was gone. They all go through ups and downs together. Belly has always dreamed of marrying Conrad but who knows. She may get caught in between both of the Fisher boys and to her, make the biggest decision of her life. Will it be Conrad, or Jeremiah? I loved this book so much because the way Jenny Han used very descriptive words made me feel like I was a main character in the book. I believed that I was there in the moment, interacting with the characters and been there with them throughout the novel. My favorite character in the story was Jeremiah. He was my favorite because he always wanted there to be no tension and always so considerate. My favorite trait that describes him is optimistic! I think he was my favorite because we have similar ideas in life. We always want everything to be exciting and a fun adventure. An example of him being optimistic is when he says “Maybe part of me needed that, someone to look up to.”(pg. 168) He was very optimistic here because all he could think about was how he was always the underdog compared to his older brother Conrad. But when life gave him lemons he made lemonade! My favorite quote from the novel was from Jeremiah and he said this. “Maybe part of me needed that, someone to look up to.”(pg. 168). This was my favorite quote because it made me realize that there will always be a bright side but you just have to find it. It will always come to you eventually.