Full moon

There's a big bright full moon hanging low in the sky tonight. It's beautiful. I hope you get to see it being round and shiny wherever you are tonight.

Story #1 (this one was actually a 4am comfort for my first daughter when she tried to crawl in bed with me and I made her go back to her bed).
Once upon a time there was a princess. But she was sad because always was sick with a cough. So she stayed in her room a lot. But then one day a knight came and asked if she'd like to go for a ride with him. Because she didn't do very much she didn't have much strength. But she went with him for a very short ride on the back of his horse. Then each day they would go for a further ride. Sometimes the knight would walk the long way back to the castle from the stables. Each day the princess had a little more strength until she finally was able to ride her own horse. Eventually they fell in love and were married. And when they were king and queen they funded a lot of science research into plants that would help cure chronic coughing. And that made life better for a lot of people. The end.

Story #2
Once upon a time there was a very confused cloud. Instead of raining rain or snowing snow, this cloud rained antigravity rain. [What's antigravity daddy?] Well, whenever the rain fell on things, those things would float up to the sky. So if it rained on some grass, it might pull up out of the dirt and float up. Or if it fell on a car, the car could float up toward the sky. When the rain dried off, the grass or person or car would slowly sink back down to the ground. Sometimes the rain fell on penguins or ostriches. They loved it the most because they don't normally get to fly. But when this cloud rained on them they could fly around for a nice long time, which they enjoyed. The end.

Out of bed #1: Daughter: I had a scary thought! Me: What was your scary thought? I thought that there was a giant with six plus, I mean infinity plus one heads and 42 plus three arms. And so I came out. Me: Oh, that's easy. All you have to do is tell a silly thing to the giant and he'll laugh and clap. And because he has so many heads and arms, watching him laugh and clap is really funny. Daughter: No, because even if you say something nice or funny to a giant, he will still be a meanie. Me: Well, since giants aren't real, we can think whatever we want about them. Daughter: Oh, ok. Then I tucked her back in bed. Actually on the floor next to her sister's bed, which is where she wanted to sleep tonight. This isn't actually unusual, so we just roll with it.

Random other: J made delicious homemade thai coconut and peanut butter curry tonight. It was great. She really also enjoyed having root beer (a very occasional treat) and naan. The girls ate a little bit of peanut-butter toast and some red bell peppers, which is at least kind of in the same food vector. Anyway, thanks for delish foodstuffs awesome one. And thanks Marno for the recipe - it's really good.