It's a big day for Audrey Treasuresong. Her and her sister are turning six today! And that means she has to enroll in school, which means she gets her first clamshell today! She's going to treasure it so much, it's going to be so pretty, and she will call it Paigie and keep it in her skirt pocket and it will be pink and perfect and all hers!

Mama Clematis has been teaching her the basics of how to use an on-screen keyboard and how to sound out words, and she thinks she's starting to get the hang of this reading thing. Mama Clematis has her doing arithmetic too. She can add four thousand three hundred and eighty two to five thousand nine hundred and thirty one and get the right answer! She is SO GROWN UP! 

It's such a big responsibility being six, but she is going to shoulder it heroically and enjoy its fruits. Because she is a PRINCESS and PRINCESSES DON'T LET THEM SEE YOU SWEAT. 

She galumphs down the stairs of the clanhome and flops down at the kitchen table in her slightly too high chair, and kicks her feet with a little hum. Today is an important day!