For at least a week Gooseberry has been hosting semi-nightly "scabes". On the first night she announced it was time for the scabe and we went, "Okay, what do we need to do?" and she got extremely confused: surely we should know what a scabe is???
Eventually we got an explanation. A scabe is a nighttime party. You have to turn off all the lights. And that's when the flashlights come out. In practice, it often also includes a little tikes story dream projector, but that does not replace doing story time at bedtime a few minutes later. Given the fact days are getting shorter[1], I imagine this will continue to be a celebration and it will slowly creep earlier and earlier. Perhaps we'll even get to have a dinner scabe?
Regardless: you too can have a scabe. I think I recommend it even.
and this may be a major influence on the concept: a month ago we couldn't really have a scabe before bedtime, it is required to be Dark ↩︎