Welcome to Make-Up, the Kids' Bedtime Stories podcast. Get ready to listen to fun and non-scary stories that I make up on the fly without preparing.

I tell these stories to my five-year-old son as part of his bedtime routine. Thanks for listening.

So this story is a request from a listener in Ireland who wanted a story that includes

Martha and Hazel and a playground and a cake.

And we also want to add a fire to it.

Once upon a time, a long time ago, in a faraway country named Ireland, where it rained so many times,

there was a girl whose name was Hazel and Hazel was six years old and she had some special things that she

liked to do one of the things that she liked to do the most whenever she had a kid umbrella

was to twirl it around in her hands and make it go upy and downy. And sometimes, Hazel would even

open up the umbrella while she was in her house. But Hazel's sister, Martha, was so good at breaking umbrellas.

And Hazel used to always have to tell Martha, Martha, that is my Princess Elsa umbrella.

Don't break it. And Martha would say do do do da do da do da and

Hazel would teacher that's not nice to say that one day the rain had stopped and Martha's

mama and Hazel's mama decided to take them to the playground.

So they got in their car and they both got strapped into their car seats.

And Hazel said that her car seat was a little too tight.

So her mama had to loosen it a little bit.

And Martha said that she wanted to

drink some apple juice and the mom said no apple juice just water and she drove

in the car and while it drove it started to rain but instead of raining regular

rain it was orange juice that was coming down.

Now, in Ireland, it gets pretty rainy, and sometimes the raindrops are big, and sometimes the

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