The Extraordinary Ordinary Family: A fairy tale
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
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Once upon a time, in the far away, wild land of Utah, there lived a little family.
And they were extraordianary.
Just not in the way you might think.
For they were very ordinary.
There were no leapers of tall buildings, no one ran faster than a speeding bullet and there were no magical suits of armor worn to slay dragons.
There was just a family with really humble beginnings.
It all started with a REALLY geeky boy with REALLY unfortunate eye wear:
And a dorky, chubby girl with REALLY unfortunate hair:
Like we read at the beginning of our tale, the boy and girl weren’t princes or princesses or anything glittery and high brow like that. No WAY would either of them qualify. I mean…LOOK AT THEM for Pete’s sake! They were probably more in the stall mucker and scullery maid category, but since this is a fairy tale, we’ll just skip the drudgery of THAT reality for now.)
Anyway…
They left their dorky chubbiness and geekiness behind got married:
(Well, the scullery maid left her dorky chubbiness behind. AND she still looks pretty damn awesome if she says so herself.
…The stall mucker is still TOTALLY A GEEK. With a lot less hair. Which is fine as the scullery maid TOTALLY thinks geeks with receding hairlines are HAWT.
(The scullery maid TOTALLY wasn’t intimidated or threatened into making aforementioned declaration about geek hawtness. Or punished for the crack about receding hairlines or anything. For reals.)
The scullery maid and stall mucker went hand and hand through the world and eventually they were awarded the great honor of being stewards of some of the finest lads in all the land.
Even though they can be total weirdos at times.
In addition to the two fine lads, the family became complete with the birth of a fine, red-headed little warrior.
They were a humble but happy little family in their snug little cottage.
All was well-ish.
(I mean, they WERE still scullery maids and stall muckers and well..scullerying and mucking is a dang hard life at times. Still, the little red-headed warrior made everything as happy as it could be.)
Until one very sad, tragic day when a great curse was put on the snug little cottage and the valiant red-head was taken from them.
They were smited and brought low by a great and terrible grief.
There was nary a joyful sculley nor a happy muck to be seen for a very, very long time.
All was dark in the land.
Very dark.
Still, they had the two fine lads that they loved fiercely and they managed to piece their lives back together, though none of them would ever be the same again.
They still had each other.
And through many trials and hard times, they continued to fight, and cling and stay together.
After six long years passed, full of tears, tissues and way, WAY too many grief-consumed-chocolate-covered marshmallows, something happened.
Despite getting, um…up there in years, the scullery maid grew globe-like and the good fairy of the woods granted the little family in the cottage a miracle.
A wee babe.
Thanks to the fact that the stall mucker is the ONLY SINGLE CHROMOSOME STALL MUCKER IN EXISTENCE THAT IS INCAPABLE OF PRODUCING ANYTHING FEMALE LIKE, EVER, a sweet little baby boy was born to fanfare befitting royalty.
Little Prince Butterlump brought joy to all.
He made everything much brighter for the maid, the mucker, and their fine lads. He filled their little cottage with love and laughter and more peace and happiness then any of them thought they would ever feel again.
And at the end of our tale, the scullery maid and the geeky hawt stall mucker managed to stay married and with their fine little lads despite rabid dragons, tulgy woods, evil wizards, foul smelling monsters, hideous trolls, pits of despair, piles and piles of manure and all their mucking baggage and scullery-laden issues.
(Which is pretty awesome, frankly.)
And now, dear reader, I leave you with the moral of our tale: Ordinary people fighting through trial and coming out on the other side whole and still full of love?
Is extraordinary.
What makes YOUR family extrodinary?
I’d love to hear what it is.
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Judy Schwartz Haley | CoffeeJitters.Net said...
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Loralee Choate said...
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LOVE the scullery maid and stall mucker!
In our little corner of the world we've got 4 kids and a Daddy off fighting in war for the second time. Mommy holds the fort down at home so he can do his job and come home safe. People seem to think what we go through is extraordinary, but for us its just about living life and enjoying the time we have together whenever we can have it. -
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Oh my goodness - our story is much too long to post in the comment section so I'll try to keep it short and to the point
She met He, they fell in love and got married. He went back to school while she kept her dead end job. Then she decided her dead end job was much, much, much too dead endish and she would be 40 someday, with or without a degree, and so she quit her dead end job to go back to school as well. She immediately got pregnant. He and she had a beautiful baby girl. Then, while she was still breastfeeding, she found out she had stage 3 breast cancer. Now she is loving he, taking care of baby girl, and finishing school, all while kicking cancer's ass.