How It All Began - " Bedtime Story " & " Song Creation "
THE ORIGINS OF BEANY WEANY
This was where it all started!
Most weeks, I would have a DADB (Daddy and Da Boyz) Night where mom got some much needed "there's human life outside these walls" time, and it'd just be me and the little guys.
Part of those weekly adventures was ending the evening with the eagerly awaited bedtime story session of "Knights of the Porterboy Table"! Every story was uniquely it's own. Some, I'd prep a little in advance, and others would be entirely made up as it was being told. However, every tale involved the three boys in some aspect, and usually began with them waking up in the morning and coming downstairs to breakfast. After eating their imaginary wild breakfast menus, there would be a knock at the door - and the mystery would begin! They would giggle, shout out their suggestions, and so love to be a part of the story!
This... is one of those nights. :)
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A few weeks after, the Beany Weany saga was still alive and well. We were out at the family cottage with our cousins, which is a common gathering of laughter, fun and spontaneous creativity. We all delighted in the bedtime story retelling, so I grabbed a nearby guitar and thought 'why just have it be a chorus, when it could be an entire song!" :)
See if you can tell how different the story was back then. It's changed quite a bit from the original!