Storytelling Around the Breakfast Table

Yesterday morning, the youngest three sat there over their cereal bowls and told stories for about half an hour straight. These were real-life stories, perhaps slightly embellished. It made me think of family story-telling time in the Little House on the Prairie books.

They took turns telling about and reliving their experiences on the waterslide when they went on a field trip with Grandma and Granddad. It got quite melodramatic at times. The most amusing part to me was that they were all there on that trip; and yet, when the storyteller would pause, one of the listeners would eagerly ask, "And then what happened?"