Long ago in my girls life, I use to tell them a story I made up to them at bedtime. Lots of times I would tell a sort of "social story" about something going on in their life. ( FYI social stories are little stories that teach interpersonal communication and how to interact in an effective and appropriate manner). Somewhere in all of these stories my girls started asking for stories about lots of different things from Hello Kitty to bunnies. A favorite among them were what became "The Giant stories".
As time has gone by bedtime has become less 'complicated' and now consists of a prayer, primary song and a kiss goodnight. Recently as I was tucking the girls in Emily asked me if I would tell her a giant story. Jane got really excited and we all settled down in Jane's room and I told them these two beloved stories. In case they want to someday tell them to there kids here they are.
"Once upon a time there were two tiny little fairies. These fairies had a special job to take care of a big beautiful meadow full of flowers. Each day the Fairies spent there time caring for the meadow and making the flowers so lovely. One morning the Fairies went down to the meadow and discovered that somebody had been in the meadow killing the flowers. This made the Fairies very sad. They didn't want their flowers to die. That night instead of going home the fairies hid in some trees that were on the edge of the meadow to wait and find out who was ruining their beloved meadow. After some time the Fairies heard BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, and they saw the biggest giant they had ever seen come into their meadow. This giant went around the meadow squashing the flowers and laughing the whole time, saying "what fun it is to squash these horrible little flowers"!!! The fairies where shocked! What should they do? The giant was so big and they were so little. How could they stop him from ruining there meadow? One of the fairies suggested that they go talk to the wisest fairy in all of fairy land. The next morning they rushed to her door to ask her how they could stop the horrible giant from ruining there flowers. The wise fairy listened to there plea, thought about it for a moment and then said "Perhaps we should make some fairy dust that would stop the giant from wanting to come to the meadow." The Fairies spent the remainder of the day helping the wise fairy make this special potion. That evening they waited with their fairy dust for the familiar sound. Soon they heard it, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM. The giant appeared ready to squash the flowers. The fairies were so small and couldn't be seen by the big giant they hurried and flew up to the giants noise. Quickly they sprinkled some of their magic fairy potion under the giants nose. The Giant suddenly started to sneeze and sneeze and sneeze. He sneezed so much that when he finally stopped he said out loud "I must be allergic to these flowers, I'm getting out of here". Off the giant went and never came back and the fairies and the meadow lived happily ever after"
"Once upon a time there was a fairy named Emily. One day Emily decided she wanted to go play in the forest. She went next door to ask her special friend Jane if she wanted to come along. Both of their parents said it was OK if they made sure to be home by dinner. So off flew Emily and Jane into the forest. Both of the girls had such a fun time flying over the flowers and around the trees. Suddenly the fairies looked up and saw the biggest house they had ever seen. Jane looked at Emily and said "Giants must live here". They flew quietly up to the window and looked inside and saw that nobody was home. Emily then noticed that another window was slightly cracked open. Just big enough for two fairies to slip into the house. In the house the fairies saw a huge couch. The TV was ginormous. They flew into the kitchen and saw the biggest fridge, sink, stove, plates and glasses they had ever seen. They then flew up the large staircase and into a bedroom full of toys that belonged to a 'giant girl'. The fairies had so much fun playing with all the giant toys. There favorite was playing in the giant girls doll house. It was the perfect size for the fairies, who were the size of barbie dolls to play house. In fact they played so long they lost track of time and before they knew it they heard a great big door open and close. Oh no said Emily the giants are home. Soon they heard sounds of feet coming up the stairs. Quick we better hide said Jane. They both jumped into the toy box and froze like Barbies. A little girl, who was really huge to the fairies, stormed into the room and quickly started looking for a lost toy. She looked in the doll house, under her bed and then opened up the toy box. She found the missing toy and didn't notice notice the fairies who were laying very still. The fairies heard the girl run down the stairs and back outside. Emily turned to Jane and said "Quick lets get out of here". The fairies flew to the door and looked down the stairs and noticed the cost was clear. They bolted to the window as fast as their tiny wings would go. As soon as they got to the kitchen they saw the mother giant coming into the room. They ducked into a cup to avoid being seen. To their dismay they saw the mother come pick up the very cup they were hiding in. The giant picked up the cup to fill it up with water. Just as she turned on the sink the phone rang. The mother giant set the cup down and walked out of the room to find her phone. Relieved the fairies quickly flew out of the cracked window and made it home just in time for supper. The End
