My Hero

          My hero is my older sister Caitlin. She is my hero because she makes me laugh, she is someone I can talk to, I have a lot of memories with her, she is nice to everyone she meets, and she is beautiful. She also makes really good decision.
         She makes me laugh and gives me someone to talk to. She is someone who even on my worst days can make me smile by telling a joke or making a funny face. If I am having trouble with something she will come and sit by me and just let me talk.  She gives me advice and does things to make me smile. She always knows what to say and she says it at the right times.
         We have always been really close so I have a lot memories of with her. We used to share a room so at night instead of sleeping we would go and spy on our parents. Also we would dress up as spies and sneak around our house. We still do stuff together like watch movies or get ice cream and hang out. We just can't do it as much because she is married so we don't see each other as much. I love the chances I do get to see her though.
          She is nice to everyone she meets and she is beautiful. She is always nice to everyone which just makes her more fun to be around. She has never been mean to me or really anyone else that I have seen. She is also really pretty even if she sometimes says she isn't.
         She also makes really good decisions even though she isn't very decisive about lots of things.  When it is important she makes good choices,  like who she was going to marry, or that she wanted to go to college,  and that she wanted to go on a mission, and what she wanted to major in.
       My hero is Caitlin because she is funny, good to talk to, we have a lot of memories, she is nice, beautiful and makes good decisions. She is a really good role model and I am definitely very lucky to have her.

Aphrodite's Jealousy Changes the World

       A long, long time ago the world had no color. Everything was black and white, just like in an old photograph.  That is everything except for the rainbow. This is the story of how the world became colorful.   
     Up on Olympus a strikingly beautiful lady was sitting at her mirror doing her beautiful but colorless hair.  Her name was Aphrodite and she was not just anybody, she was a goddess.  In fact, she was the goddess of beauty. She smiled at her reflection.  She had made plans to see her newest mortal suitor, Spartus, so she had to look perfect. When she was done with her hair she turned to the closet to pick an outfit.  When she was done getting ready she headed down to the ground where her suitor would be waiting.  Aphrodite was fashionably late, but of course he was still waiting patiently.
       "Hello my lady," he said as he bent to kiss her hand.
         "Hello," she said, giving him a dazzling smile back.
       "You look beautiful today."
         She flipped her hair over her shoulder, "Oh this is nothing really, just something I threw on."
       They began to walk down the paths.  He stopped and looked up and smiled as he saw a rainbow.  Aphrodite looked up too and knew that one of the gods or goddesses had put it out like they did every so often when they thought the world was boring and colorless.
         "It's amazing!  Isn't it so unique!" Spartus exclaimed. "It's the most beautiful thing in the world!"
          Aphrodite's good night was ruined as soon as he spoke those words.  The most beautiful thing in the world?! What about her?!  She was way more beautiful than that rainbow even if it was beautiful in a different way.
           "Are you okay?" he asked looking worried. 
         She gave him a fake smile,  "Fine I just need to go home."
         Spartus looked disappointed, but did not argue.  "Okay," he said as he turned back to the rainbow.
        When Aphrodite got back to Olympus she stormed angrily through her home, throwing stuff everywhere.
         "How dare he say that rainbow is more beautiful than I am?!" she screeched as she threw her pillow at the wall.  She looked out the window and could still see the rainbow.
        "If I had color on me I would be more beautiful than anything!" she growled.
       That gave her an idea!  She would take some of the color and put it on herself.  Aphrodite left immediately and went to the rainbow.  First, she would do her hair.  She looked at all her choices and finally decided on one which was a gold color.  She pulled out a hand mirror which she had brought with her and looked at her reflection.  It was amazing.  Her hair was gorgeous!  She kept adding colors and soon her eyes were the most sparkling emerald green.  Then she did her clothes - using the shimmering colors of the rainbow.   Soon she was more beautiful than she could possibly have imagined - and she was already unimaginably beautiful.  She decided that it wasn't fair for only her and her one outfit to have all that color, so she took some extra color home with her.
         When her home and everything in was all the colors of the rainbow, she realized she still had some extra blue.
        "Hmmm, what should I do with this?" the goddess wondered.  Aphrodite decided to throw it up as far as she could at the sky and it turned part of it a lovely blue. "Well, that will give the world some more color.  Now to show the world there is no beauty that can compare to mine!"
      As she walked down the streets people stared and gasped as she passed.  Aphrodite was just stunning.  Spartus ran up to her, "Wow! You look beautiful Aphrodite!" She smiled at him then turned and walked away.  She would not be seeing him again.
        When Aphrodite returned to Olympus she went to her home and was surprised to see Zeus sitting on her couch.  He looked very out of place in all the color.  And he did not look happy. "Aphrodite, what were you thinking?!"
      "I was thinking that I needed to prove that I am the most beautiful and not that rainbow."
     "Do you ever think before you act?!  What about the rest of the us?   Hera and the other goddesses  are insisting that they get color as well. What do you want me to do about that?!"
    Aphrodite smiled, "You can give them color, too.  I know that I will still be the most beautiful."
    Zeus laughed, "This is not a contest Aphrodite.  But I will have to give them color to stop the bickering."
     Zeus made sure that the rest of the gods and goddesses all got to choose rainbow color, too.  Soon the mortals started praying for color down on earth.  Zeus agreed that the world would be a better place with color.  He ordered everything to have color and now the world is no longer just black and white. And it all started with a rainbow and a jealous goddess. The rainbow is still put out every once in a while as a reminder of how our world got color.  The rainbow is still beautiful and unique and has all the colors beautifully in one place.