The kids were watching “Reading Rainbow” this morning. There was a really cool book about mummies that told the process of mummification. After the book, Levar Burton – the host – gave us a tour of a museum that has mummies.

During the tour piece of the episode, they performed a CT of a mummy to see the bone structure and then sculpted the head based off of the measurements that they found.

One of my children asked, “Why are they called ‘mummies’ instead of a ‘dead mom?’”

You will never guess who asked the question.

I guess when I die I will be a ‘mummy.’