If only we could pick our family...

Hi again! Today I'm gunna tell y'all about one of my family members, who is also a girl and her name, is Aunt Alexandra. Aunt Alexandra and I have never quite seen eye to eye. She has never liked my overalls or,the  way I don't care if I have perfect hair or not, or if my hands aren't always perfectly clean after I play outside. Maybe I just wasn't given the"lady" gene, she took our families stock. And if that is the case, then that really isn't my fault! I mean she stole my ability to be real polite and whatnot. I don't really like dresses and all that, you can't play tag in a dress! Even though my clothes aren't really what Aunt Alexandra wants me to wear, I still admire the way she puts on a tough front. Although she believes that her job is really just to look pretty and do what the men say, she has to be strong right after finding out something sad, like when the news of Tom's escape, they had to pretend like it was a regular old day. That would be real hard, to have to stay calm and collected and whatnot. That could be a useful skill you know, like acting being in a movie, you have to be able to pretend like nothins' wrong, even if everything around you is crumbling. Wow! Aunt Alexandra should be an actor! Shes real good at pretending things, she even pretends to be nice to Cal, but we know she dosen't like her... Anyways, maybe I should try that! I pretend to be training for movie, but instead of being in a movie- I could be training to be a lady! Aunt Alexandra may have been onto something my whole life, she was trying to help me realize that if I want to be accepted as a member of the Finch family, I should be more like lady, and like the members of our family. Aunt Alexandra wrote me, sayin that this was the way to go about bein a lady. In the letter she put all this stuff about how I should dress, talk, eat and sit. I didn't even know there was a wrong way to sit! Aunt Alexandra has always been such a proper girl, she does just what everyone expects of her, just like all our neighbours do. said that if I can do a good job showin her how to act like a proper Finch lady, that she would help me finish the idea by pickin a real pretty dress up for me. I think Ill invite a bunch of other Southern belle's like Cal and Miss.Maudie and we can all have a tea party like ladies! Pinkies out!!!