Hello everyone. This is Ria with a quick note. This is a full episode preview of a story featured on Little Stories for Sleep, a bedtime podcast just for Little Stories premium subscribers. The episode I'm sharing with you today is part of a series I'm calling Wandering Sleep Stories.

These new stories are peaceful, calming, and perfect for that last track on a bedtime playlist.

On Little Stories for Sleep, Wandering Sleep Stories have no intro or outro.

It's just the story framed by soft music.

So grab your weighted blanket, snuggle up, and fall asleep to this sweet tale.

Music sweet tale.

Lavender asked about it the moment, the very moment, she blinked awake from her big sleep.

Didn't even give her mother time to stretch.

Just immediately lobbed questions.

When will it be exactly?

And who will be there?

Will all my cousins be there?

What about lilac?

Do you think lilac will be there?

Oh, I'm so excited.

I can hardly breathe.

Mother Bear studied her lovable, flighty daughter, said,

Please do breathe, my dear. And went off to greet the spring forest with lavender hurrying along behind her.

The questions did not stop.

Each day, lavender dreamed up new things to wonder about. How many types of pie do you think

there will be? There will be pie, won't there? Will I get to try them all? Or will there be a rule about how

many you can eat? Will it run past sundown? I was hoping fireflies would come out

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