Merry Christmas!

Well, Glimmer, it lookeses likes you'ze been good dis year. Have you decided what you'ze wantmost for Christmas?

Hmmmm....

Ohh! I knows!!

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas.
Only a hippopotamus will do.

Oh noes...please don't tellz me she's going to singmost.

Don't want a doll.
No dinky tinker toy.
I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy.

I can see me now on Christmas morning
Creeping down the stairs...

Oh what joy and what surprise
When I open up my eyes
To see a hippo hero standing there!

Sparkle says a hippo will eat me up but then
My guardian says a hippo is a vegetarian.

*sigh* Smartmost thinkingz, Guardian.

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas.
Only a hippopotamus will do.
No crocodiles
Or rhinoceroses-es
I only like hippopatmuses-es
And hippopotamuses like me too!

...Well...now that you haz THAT out of your system-most...
Will you'ze settle forz a puppy?

GASP!!
A PUPPY!!!

Yeps! A puppy willz workmost too!

Have a faerie merry Christmas!
May (most) your holiday wishes come true!

Love,
Sparkle, Glimmer, and Bowser

Caught in a Web

 

 

What do you meanz there's somet'ings behind meez?

 

 

 

 

Don't worrymost. I gotz dis.

 

Gotta get 'em where it hurtzes!

 

Umm...okayz. NOW I needses some helpmost!

 

I HATESmost dem spiderses!

(No faeries were harmed in the photographing of these pictures...unless you count her pride.)

Autumn

I know that fall officially started back in September, but it's only just now feeling like it here.

I've never really cared for fall.
It always felt like a sad time to me.
Plus, I'm not much of a fan of cold weather.

Of course, it probably didn't help that my previous jobs were always so terribly busy during the fall.
I never actually had a chance to enjoy it.

 

I mentioned my feelings about fall to Sparkle.
I was curious what sort of fae wisdom she would have about it.

"Fall not beez sadmost. It beez a time of change."

"If it waz sadmost, why would the trees getz all prettied up for it?"

I liked looking at it that way.
A few minutes passed, both of us silently enjoying the pretty weather.

 

"Plus, dese pumpkins taste goodmost."

I had to agree with her on that one.
I do enjoy all the pumpkin flavored goodies.

And come to think of it...there's a jar of pumpkin butter waiting in the fridge for us to enjoy.

A Little Discovery

Sparkle and I continued our walk to the far side of the yard, where the large shade tree sits.

Sparkle gasped.
"Ohhh, dis beez a specialmost tree!"

Now, I had always liked this great big tree with its branches that filled the entire back corner of the yard, but I was curious to know what she found so special about it.

"Look, right dere. It haz a heart. Only specialmost trees have heartses."

I am ashamed to admit that I never once had noticed that heart. She was right, there must be something truly special about this tree.

Sparkle and I were happily admiring the tree's heart when we heard a sound (okay, she heard the sound first. I am the "slow guardian" here, after all).
It was a very small sound, but it was so very sad.

"It beez comings from de udder side of de tree."

I'm sure you can only imagine my surprise when I discovered the cause of the sound.

Huddled up against the Heart Tree, was a tiny little faerie.

The poor little thing was crying.

I didn't wish to frighten her, so I very slowly bent down and asked her what was wrong.

"I waz on me way to a newmost home....a specialmost home for meez to live, but I got losted. And nows I's all alone."

I thought perhaps we could help her, and was just asking her where her new home was, when Sparkle rolled her eyes at me and let out a huge sigh.
Apparently, I am exasperatingly slow.

"She waz coming to liveses with US."

I was pretty shocked by this news. Sparkle had told me before she was to be an "only fae." I asked her if she was ok with having another little faerie around the house.

"When a faerie beez called specialmost to a home, not even I'Z can stopses it. She just belongsmost with us."

That seemed good enough to me. Besides, who am I to argue with fae logic?

I asked our new little friend if she had a name.

"I beez Glimmer."





(Bonus Baby Shot:)

The "Magicmost" Woods

Today was one of those rare days where the weather is just perfect.
Typically, it's either terribly hot and humid or bitter cold.

I wanted to take advantage of the day, and enjoy some time in my back yard.

 

 

Of course, Sparkle had to come along.

She was happily perched on my finger, listening as I told her about my favorite corner of the yard, which I had always called "The Woods."

 



 

 

I explained I knew this corner wasn't really anything in comparison to a real forest.

It was really just a handful of trees, but I had always felt so alive among them.

These trees gave me the same feeling I feel even when I'm deep in the "real" woods.

 



 

"Of course dis beez a real forest," she replied.

"And you'ze feel so alivemost beecuz it is a magicmost forest."

 

 

Magic? I knew my little fae must be teasing me.

I had spent many, many hours among these trees, and never once had I seen anything magical.

Magic forests were for places far away, across the oceans. Not somewhere as ordinary as my backyard.

I was curious (and probably a bit hopeful) though, so I asked her if any magical creatures lived here.

 

 

 

"Of course dey do. What wouldz a magicmost wood beez without magic folkses? Just look over heres...How can you t'ink dere not somet'ink magicmost living in dis tree?"

 

 

She did have a point.

 

 

"De signs beez everywheres. You'ze just haz to look."

 

I was quite excited now, and asked why they wouldn't come out and join us.

 

"Dey don't t'ink you'ze readymost yet."

 

I was pretty disappointed with this news, but at least it was promising. If I wasn't ready "yet," that at least meant I might be one day.

 

 

We continued on with our walk, Sparkle now pointing out all the evidence of magical creatures to me.

 

 

(To Be Continued...)