Also, she has diabetes, which is a disease that keeps your body from handling sugar the way it should. (No doubt Janine could give you the full scientific explanation, but I sure can't.) What that means for Stacey is that she has to keep track of every single thing she eats, and she has to be really careful about avoiding sweets. She can't eat Ring-Dings or candy bars, no matter how hungry she is. Also, she has to check her blood sugar all the time and give herself shots of this stuff called insulin, every day. It sounds gruesome, but Stacey makes it seem like no big deal. We all admire her for that.

As treasurer, Stacey keeps track of how much money we each earn. That’s easy for her, since she's great at math. She also collects the club dues every Monday. We hate to pay up, but she makes us cough up the money. We use some of the treasury funds to pay

Kristy's brother to drive her to meetings. Some of the money goes for materials for our Kid-Kits, which are boxes full of games and books (mostly used) and stickers and crayons (those are new) that we sometimes bring with us on jobs. (Kid-Kits are another of Kristy's great ideas, by the way.) And once in a while we break into the treasury to splurge on a pizza party.

The club secretary is Mary Anne Spier. I'll tell you what she's like, and you can try to guess what animal she said she'd be. She's small, like Kristy (who happens to be her best friend)/ and she has brown hair and brown eyes. She recently got a great new haircut, and she looks terrific. She used to dress very conservatively, but that was only because her father insisted on it. He brought her up, since her mother died long ago, and he thought he had to be strict to be a good parent. He's finally loosened up a little, though, and now Mary Anne has some pretty cool clothes.

Mary Anne is very shy, but also very caring and sensitive. She has a romantic nature, which is probably why she's the only one of us who has a steady boyfriend. His name is Logan Bruno, and we all like him.