Our cat was safe too， though it took a while to find her.
But everything else in our whole house was spoiled.
What was left of the house was turned to charcoal and ashes.
We went to stay with my mother‘s sister Aunt Ida and Uncle Sandy.
Then we were able to move into the apartment downstairs.
We painted the walls yellow. The floors were all shiny.
But the rooms were very empty.
The first day we moved in，
the neighbors brought pizza and cake and ice cream.
And they brought a lot of other things too.
The family across the street brought a table and three kitchen chairs.
The very old man next door gave us a bed from when his children were little.
My other grandpa brought us his beautiful rug.
My mother’s other sister， Sally， had made us red and white curtains.
Mama‘s boss， Josephine， brought pots and pans， silverware and dishes. My cousin brought me her own stuffed bear.
Everyone clapped when my grandma made a speech.
“You are all the kindest people，” she said， “and we thank you very， very much. It’s lucky we‘re young and can start all over.”
That was last year， but we still have no sofa and no big chairs.
When Mama comes home， her feet hurt.
“There’s no good place for me to take a load off my feet，” she says.
When Grandma wants to sit back and hum and cut up potatoes，
she has to get as comfortable as she can on a hard kitchen chair.
So that is how come Mama brought home the biggest jar
she could find at the diner and all the coins started to go into the jar.
Now the jar is too heavy for me to lift down. Uncle Sandy gave me a quarter.
He had to boost me up so I could put it in.
After supper Mama and Grandma and I stood in front of the jar.
“Well， I never would have believed it， but I guess it‘s full，”
Mama said.
My mother brought home little paper wrappers for the nickels and the dimes and the quarters.
I counted them all out and wrapped them all up.
On my mother’s day off， we took all the coins to the bank.
The bank exchanged them for ten-dollar bills.
Then we took the bus downtown to shop for our chair.
We shopped through four furniture stores.
We tried out big chairs and smaller ones， high chairs and low chairs， soft chairs and harder ones.
Grandma said she felt like Goldilocks in “The Three Bears” trying out all the chairs.
Finally we found the chair we were all dreaming of.
And the money in the jar was enough to pay for it.
We called Aunt Ida and Uncle Sandy. They came right down in their pickup truck to drive the chair home for us.
They knew we couldn‘t wait for it to be delivered.
I tried out our chair in the back of the truck.
Mama wouldn’t let me sit there while we drove.
But they let me sit in it while they carried it up to the door.
We set the chair right beside the window with the red and white
curtains. Grandma and Mama and I all sat in it
while Aunt Ida took our picture.
Now Grandma sits in it and talks with people going by in the daytime.
Mama sits down and watches the news on TV
when she comes home from her job.
After supper， I sit with her and she can reach right up
and turn out the light if I fall asleep in her lap.
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