You have to kiss a few frogs, before you can find a prince. Who comes up with this stuff? Why on Earth would ANYONE want to kiss a frog, even as it is meant in this case, if you suspect that he or she might be a “frog,” why would you want to kiss them? I think that the Grimm brothers were laughing when the wrote this; although from what I’ve read the story originally had the princess break the…
I remember telling ghost stories at sleepovers when I was a young girl. Some of the common ones made their rounds, but there were on or two that even now kind of spook me out. What is about scary stories that we like so much? I stumbled across Enchanted when I was looking for my “E post” for this challenge and couldn’t get the story out of my head. It ALWAYS creeps me out when kids are used in the…
Fairy tales abound with mysterious creatures, but I think my favorite one is the dragon. I love how the dragon is portrayed as either a villain, like with Saint George, or as a hero like in Pete’s Dragon. Not too long ago, Build-A-Bear had Toothless that you could buy and I dragged my daughter over to get one. Turns out that I wanted one more than she did, but since I didn’t want to share we got two. True story….
If you think about it, Cinderella is a character that many can connect with. I’m not talking about being swept off your feet by Prince Charming (my hubby’s going to grin here), but I’m talking about housework! Perhaps some of you have had mean step-siblings or parents. But I think most everyone can connect with the fact that after basically waiting on family hand and foot, you deserve some kind of medal for not strategically hiding their dead bodies under…
A staple in the world of tales, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, is not only a cute story, but also a cautionary tale that we reference to our children to help explain the importance of telling the truth. So everyone knows that lie=bad and truth=good. But what about those “little while lies?” The ones that so many of us tell on a daily basis to make people more comfortable or to avoid conflict? Come on, you know which ones I’m…