The holidays are my favorite time of year and they kick off with one of the best, Halloween. Even as an adult, I love seeing all the houses decorated and how kids get excited about their costumes. It’s so much fun to me to get the house all set up, making cookies that look like fingers. It wasn’t until I was in college that I learned the history behind the holiday. History, to me, is full of awesome stories, and…
I don’t want to bash the brothers too hard, but when I realized that the stories that I was really fond of as a kid were in fact a not as “G rated” as I thought, I was a bit shocked. To say the least. It’s a little disturbing to realize that while Cinderella didn’t have mice, she did have birds that helped her and eventually plucked the eyes out of her step-sisters after her wedding to the prince. Or…
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…