Once upon a dark and stormy night a tall
dark spooky man and his wicked witchy wife . . . wait a minute . . . Once upon an ordinary Halloween night a tall not-spooky man and his sweet not-wicked wife dressed up their little baby girl as a ghost by covering her with a white blanket that had two black eyes and a note that said "Trick or Treat". They placed her on her grandparents' porch, rang the doorbell, and ran and hid. When the grandparents answered the door, they simply picked up the baby ghost and took her inside, with no concern whatsoever about how she got there. It was at the point in time, that the tall not-spooky man and his sweet not-wicked wife knew they weren't any good at Halloween hijinks.
In spite of their Halloween shortcomings,
fall happened to be this couple's favorite season of the year. They loved to take walks in the park and enjoy the colorful leaves on the trees, they loved to make dinner-in-a-pumpkin when the weather cooled off . . . and they loved to go to Mueller Park with the whole family for tinfoil dinners and sometimes S'mores, too. They also loved to take trips "over the river and through the woods" to Idaho or East Canyon for Thanksgiving feasts.
Then the couple's next favorite season began.
They loved Christmas so much, they could (and probably will) write a whole story about that holiday alone. White Christmases were especially fun, but winter could seem long if it involved shoveling the very long driveway more than once.
dark spooky man and his wicked witchy wife . . . wait a minute . . . Once upon an ordinary Halloween night a tall not-spooky man and his sweet not-wicked wife dressed up their little baby girl as a ghost by covering her with a white blanket that had two black eyes and a note that said "Trick or Treat". They placed her on her grandparents' porch, rang the doorbell, and ran and hid. When the grandparents answered the door, they simply picked up the baby ghost and took her inside, with no concern whatsoever about how she got there. It was at the point in time, that the tall not-spooky man and his sweet not-wicked wife knew they weren't any good at Halloween hijinks.
In spite of their Halloween shortcomings,
fall happened to be this couple's favorite season of the year. They loved to take walks in the park and enjoy the colorful leaves on the trees, they loved to make dinner-in-a-pumpkin when the weather cooled off . . . and they loved to go to Mueller Park with the whole family for tinfoil dinners and sometimes S'mores, too. They also loved to take trips "over the river and through the woods" to Idaho or East Canyon for Thanksgiving feasts.
Then the couple's next favorite season began.
They loved Christmas so much, they could (and probably will) write a whole story about that holiday alone. White Christmases were especially fun, but winter could seem long if it involved shoveling the very long driveway more than once.
The couple did like snowy stay-home pajama days and drinking lots of cocoa with Einstein bagels, but they were also happy when bits of green started appearing again on the ground and on the trees. One of their favorite spring things to do was walk through Temple Square and wish their own garden would grow so well.
Apparently, however, they weren't so good at Easter celebrations either--at least Easter egg hunts. Contrary to popular belief, the couple tried their very best to be fair "Easter bunnies". Once when their son needed a new bike, they truly felt it was better to give him his early birthday present at Easter, rather than on his birthday when summer was halfway over.
But his sisters will probably insist for the rest of their lives, that all they got that Easter was underwear. Maybe that is why the nice couple started "gift and treat exchange" Easter egg hunts instead.
All too soon summer came and every year it was usually too hot.
But the pretend farmer father did love to plant a garden, water and weed it, and show it off to anyone who would look. His appreciative wife did love to eat his strawberries, tomatoes, corn-on-the-cob and even the squashes. And she loved to decorate with the homegrown pumpkins once fall came back again.
Winter, spring, summer, fall . . .
the couple lived happily ever after in every season, one and all!
Happy Halloween soon!
Love,
your nice, not-wicked witchy Grandma
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