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Greg found his old Body Blankie in his mom's closet. Greg wanted to wear it to school without his mom knowing. He put his school clothes over the Body Blankie but he relized it was a bad idea. He got too hot in P.E. and when he tried to take it off the zipper broke. He had a test in history and he thought it was a good idea to use his magic 8 ball. His teacher thought he was cheating.

Greg convinced his mom to get him a phone. Greg's mom gave him her old phone to use but he couldn't text his friends and he had to share it with Manny. Greg wanted to join an after school club but none of them seemed intresting to him. He would join the yearbook club and all he had to do was take pictures of people and the school would pay him $5 per picture.

Greg find Roderick's 8 ball under his bed. Greg decides to use it to help him on little things to do. When Greg's mom told him he should go outside the 8 ball said no, so Greg hid in his mom's closet. When he was in there, he found a bunch of old parenting books that his mom used.

Greg's family was going through photo albums trying to find Greg's great grandma's diamond ring. In one picture they see that she has the ring on and in the next picture she doesn't. They think that she put in in one of the plastic eggs. So, everyone goes outside to try and find it while Greg is inside finding it.

Every Easter Greg would do a Easter egg hunt in his great grandma's backyard. When she started getting older, she would have random things in the eggs like a napkin. Greg was not to excited to be going over to his grandma's house because he did not want to talk to everyone so he sat in the bathroom until it was time to eat.

When Greg was little, he used to sell his artwork to his relatives to make a little bit of money. Since Greg is older they won't buy his artwork. Now, Manny is selling his artwork and he is making more money than Greg ever did. Greg isn't looking foward to going to his Grandma's house for Easter because there is nothing to do.

Greg's family is coming to visit for Easter. His mom has mom has 4 sister and he doesn't like none of them. The oldest one isn't married and she doesn't know how to handle children. The youngest one has 2 boys that are out of control. The other aunt does fourtune telling.

Greg was tired of his mom trying to find friends for him, so he decided he was going to be friends with a kid down his street named Fregley. Greg invited Fregley to sit at his lunch table and Fregley ate Greg's food. When they were walking home, Fregley threw all of Greg stuff out of his bookbag because they were getting chased by the Mingo kids.

Greg was excited he finally got new shoes but he was scared to mess them up. Greg decided to put plastic bags over the shoes when he was walking to school. Greg threw the bags away when the bottom of the bag was tearing.