Two years ago, I wrote Questions for the “Spooks, Creeps, Ghosts, and Ghouls” Giraffe Call. This follows that.
I admit, Juniper joining a Girl Scout troop was not my favorite idea when she broached it.
The troop, like her school, was mixed, which both a point for and against it. Juniper needed more experience dealing with “normal human kids,” on the other hand, dealing with normal human kids sometimes meant she came home crying, because they didn’t live in the same world she did.
Sage and I conferred. Then we debated. Then we bargained. Then Juniper went to Girl Scouts.
First, there was that incident with the Rakshasa. The Girl Scout leadership, you see, is entirely human. They’re entirely human and very, very mundane, and they didn’t know what a Rakshasa was.
I had a talk with them – and a much longer talk with the Rakshasa – and the troop got a second leader. I thought everything was settled. Juniper was having fun. She was even making friends, friends with human girls. She even had her first sleepover – which meant I had a nice long conversation with three human mothers and, in the end, one of of them slept over, too. We braided each other’s hair and watched bad movies; it was like being back at the Pumpkin again.
Things were going well, and the Rakshasa hadn’t eaten anyone (my brownies, she said, helped quite a bit). Then Junie came home with her new friends, crayons, and blank badges. After they’d been working for three or four hours, I thought to ask what they were up to.
Junie looked up at me with her best I’m-innocent-really-Mom expression. “We’re making new badges.” Her friend Mirella was drawing something very very tiny with pen in the middle of her badge.
“New badges?”
Courtney held up her paper, on which, in very careful handwriting, was listed a full description of what had to be the badge Mirella was drawing. “They don’t have enough badges. So we’re making more. This is the pixie furnishings badge.”
Well, at least she was spending time with more girls her age…
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<giggles> “We can fix that!” Which is a fine attitude for kids to learn. Also, I’ve missed Aud & Junie & company, and am glad you’ve found inspiration to write about them again. (And wow, you’re on a mad writing spree in general. I’m surprised the garden isn’t eating all your writing time, this time of year.)
Can’t garden at work! <.< Also, garden right now = "pick stuff, cut it up, toss in pan, ignore for 24 hours."
Ignore for 24 hours … you’re drying lots of things? Oooh! I would love to hear about that. Can I throw that into the mundane prompts pile? 🙂
making sauce, mostly. Drying is next. Sure!
I also like Junie, and am happy to see her again. Also, GREAT idea. I want to see the Pixie Furnishings project. Possibly displayed in a dollhouse? Or donated to a family in need? Next up, new kinds of cookies. Because I bet it is time to expand into new markets to bring in more revenue for the troop…
Good idea!
It is all about the cookies! Tiny pixie cookies, probably blood-meal treats for those who need more protein… Giant cookies… There are lots of possibilities, and I bet I’ve forgotten half the races.