Wednesday's Words on a Friday

 

The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.

The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.

If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.

This month the words/prompts are supplied by Charlotte and can be found here

This week's words/prompts are: 

1.party  2.chance  3.note  4.faucet  5.black  6.idea 

and/or: 

1.jelly  2.leather  3. books  4.root  5.amusement  6.pardon

also including Charlotte's colour of the month "writing pleasure purple"

Here is my story:

Ian pulled back the quilt and climbed into bed while Jane tidied the hairbrushes. “I was talking with Dr Border,” he began, “He thinks a small party for Halloween might be a good way for Carly to meet a few people her age, she has made remarkable progress this year, and I think it might be time.” Jane wasn’t so sure, but agreed Carly had made progress. “If we keep it very small, no more than six other kids, we could probably manage,” she said. “I think at least one other parent should stay too.”

“That’s a good idea,” said Ian. “I have my notepad here, lets think of an amusement or two that we know Carly could handle, we know she likes Halloween movies and cartoons, what can we do from those, apart from an apple bob and decorated pumpkins?” “Let’s not take any chances with the colour scheme,” said Jane, “it will have to be black and purple mostly, I think she’d love to dress as a witch with her purple leather boots and the decorations can be all shades from pale mauve to deepest aubergine.”

“I’ll get some other ideas from a couple of people at the office that have small children, that way we won’t do anything that might overwhelm Carly.” “And we’ll have to keep it short, a game or two, some food and a bit of free play,” said Jane. “What foods do we know that are purple?” asked Ian. “Grape jelly, and, oh gosh, I don’t know anything else that’s purple!” said Jane. “What about blueberries? They’re almost purple and we could have a cake with purple icing?”

“That could work,” said Jane, “and maybe the other kids could each bring something? They know what they like to eat and it might encourage Carly to try something new too.” Ian said “if we have it in the late afternoon, there would be enough daylight to have a purple mask painting game, we get some white masks at the $2 shop and let the kids paint them. I can hook up a faucet to that old whisky barrel and fill it with purple paint. Water based of course.”

“I’ll speak to the crew at work tomorrow and see who can come and what they can bring. When I get home, I’ll mention the idea to Carly. If she balks, I’ll have time to beg everyone’s pardon and tell them it’s a no-go” “Excellent idea,” said Jane. “I’ll take her to the library tomorrow and well look at some Halloween storybooks, I can suggest she might like to try what she sees in one or two of them.”

“If this goes ahead, we’ll keep Christmas very low-key so she doesn’t get overwhelmed,” said Ian.