Today on the way home from preschool, Marie asked me about mummies. I told her that a long time ago, people used to wrap up people in pieces of cloth after they died. She said, but Scooby Doo has mummies that are alive. Oh, right. So I told her that some people made up stories about mummies coming to life so that they would have a good scary monster, but that it was just made up. Yeah, she said, because now when people die you put them in a cough drop.