Introducing: "Frannie"

Frannie is my niece and goddaughter. She is 10 years old, 100% Jersey girl, and zany. She loves Mae West quotes, her cat and One Direction so much that she cries whenever she hears their songs.

She face-times me when I need it most and always makes me laugh. I love her.

This is her playing her new trumpet. She had only had it a week so all she could play for me was the middle part of the Rocky theme song. It was unrecognizably awful. I told her it was great and she was a natural.

Frannie in character- this time she is "Sharpay." When I asked her why she wasn't in school and why she was drinking wine in the middle of the day she told me in her combination black girl/southern drawl voice that she was 16, old enough to drink, old enough to drop out of school.