Bedtime Stories (a Fun Monday Assignment)

Mommy Wizdom is hosting Fun Monday today and she has an odd request that we write something on one of three topics using certain words. Get the full scoop (and the full list of participants) at her site.

Once again I plodded down the hall, feeling lethargic from a day of playing with my children in their treehouse, endlessly searching for enemies with a homemade periscope. Wanting to do nothing more than curl up with a couple of magazines and a number tequila shots, I turned the doorknob and prepared to make up yet another story so that my children would happily fall asleep.
As I entered the room, I saw both my children snuggled up in my daughter’s bed, complete with her stuffed ostrich and both of our cats.
“So what do you want to hear tonight kids?”
“Something that will give us Goosebumps mom,” chirped my son.
“Definitely not,” I retorted.
“Tell us the one about the prehistoric man who lived on nothing but noodles, soup, and biscuits!” My daughter squealed at the top of her lungs.
“Not again,” moaned my son, “how about the one where the Jedi Knight accidentally lands on earth and tries the Jedi mind trick on a cactus that he mistakes for a person with his hands up!”
“Sounds like a winner,” I said, smirking proudly at my son’s odd sense of humor.