Catching up with Carly

 There was once a young mother who adored her children. She had four children, two boys and two girls. They absolutely adored the outdoors. Each day, they would spend hours and hours out in the yard, running through the dirt and laughing with one another. They were not kids who enjoyed watching TV or playing nicely with toys. They wanted to be loud, dirty, moving, and in the sun. Always. This happened to work out perfectly for their family because they lived out in countryside. They were constantly surrounded by animals and nature, which made all of the kids very happy.  One day, the young mom came home from work with a very sad look on her face.  "What wrong, Mommy?" the kids asked, noticing she was not herself.  "I have to tell you guys some bad new," she started, hesitating as she saw their concerned faces. "We have to move away for my job. We have to move to an apartment in the city," she explained.  The kids did not say much. They were disappointed, b...

  The King's White Elephant Carpenters lived on a river bank near a forest They noticed a wounded elephant They tended to the elephant, and he was so grateful that he helped the carpenters with their work He would bring them tree trunks, fetch their tools, move logs into the river and more As the elephant grew older, he started bringing his son with him to show him the ways of the work One day the king spotted the beautiful white elephant The king paid the carpenters a lot of money to keep the white elephant for his own                                                                                         Wikimedia: White Elephant 

  How the Turtle Saved His Own Life A king built a lake in his backyard for his sons to swim and play in The boys swam and sailed their boats in it The king then asked some of his workers to put some fish into the lake The sons ran to the lake to see these new additions and they noticed something they had never seen before, a turtle  They thought it was a demon so they got scared They ran back to the their father and the king ordered for the turtle to be killed  when the workers caught the turtle and brought it back to the house, the boys ran away from it and cried  The king, very empathetic of his sons, demanded that the turtle be killed  The workers thought of many ways to kill it  Pound it, back it in hot coals, or throw it into the lake  The workers agreed to throw the turtle into the lake where it will be smashed to pieces by the rocks The turtle hearing all this talk, thrusted his head out of the shell  He demanded to know why they would do ...