The latest in my series of looking at that which frightens us.
The last 2 weekends have seen my wife working on Sunday, which has left me alone to get the kids ready for Church.
It’s always fun to try to get Talia dressed and ready for me. From her normally screaming in the bath “daddy sucks” as I tend to pull her hair a bit too much while trying to untangle it in the wash, on through the same again whilst attempting to make the hair presentable.
Normally, I’ve tried to wash her downstairs whilst Jen is asleep. So as to cause as little disturbance to that sleep as possible. And, she loved the basement bathroom…up till two weeks ago.
From the “no shower downstairs”, and the normal crying because “daddy sucks”, I thought she was just not wanting daddy to do the bathing. But, this morning, “No shower. WITCH!”
It seems Talia is under the impression a witch is living in the basement shower….
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Now, I took some time trying to figure out just WHAT she thinks the witch was…and it turns out it’s the exhaust fan over the shower. My best guess is she’s heard the boys telling each other to turn on the SWITCH whilst they shower, and is now convinced that is the witch.
Speaking of the boys…..
Alec has recently become most nervous around the thought of Ghosts.
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I don’t fully know where this is coming from. I’ve blamed the wind closing/opening doors on “it must have been a ghost”. But, he also reads plenty of goosebumps books these days. Not sure why ghosts have caught his attention.
Kyle, meanwhile, has picked up a thing for the Gypsie curse after watching Drag Me To Hell.
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I’ve never really understood the fear of curses myself.
No, for me, there is that one thing that always scared me. Be it in the form of a movie, or of a ‘documentary’, or book, or news article. The very thought of them would keep me awake at night.
Aliens.
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They still possess the ability to make me lose sleep, and keep the light on at night….