Once Upon A Time...

...In a far away kingdom, there was a beautiful maiden.

haha, sorry y'all we're not making up stories today. I'm actually referring to the TV Show. Have you seen it?

Let me back track a little bit in case you're like me and had no clue until now. The show airs on ABC. Currently they're in season 4. Which of course means this is the year Josh and I decide to tune in. We had zero intention on getting hooked. It airs on Sundays and we usually don't have a "Sunday" show now that True Blood is gone. So we flipped it on during the season premiere this year and we were hooked. HOOKED, y'all!

So naturally we did the smart thing and started with season one. Except we're still watching new episodes of season 4 every Sunday too. Y'all I'm telling you this show is so good.

Quick summary: The Evil Queen from Snow White casts a curse on all enchated folk which causes them to get stuck in Maine and lose their memory. Snow White and Charming have a baby, but they send her away to keep her safe. She's the key to breaking the curse. On her 28th birthday she comes back to the "kingdom" (Maine) and the curse starts to break. Throughout the season we're introduced to all of the characters and they explain more about their different stories.

Things I Learned (about stories I thought I knew) that I find fascinating.

Rumpelstiltskin is everywhere. Not even kidding a little bit. Apparently he's not just the gold-spinning / baby stealer that we knew and loved. He used to be a regular man... with a kid. He got his powers from killing some sort of "dark one" and inherited the powers. He then abandoned his kid and proceeded to intertwine himself into everyone else's lives. What I've found out from season 1 is he is "Beast" from Beauty and the Beast, in season 2 he's the croc chasing after Captian Hook, and he makes an appearance in just about every other story. Not even kidding. But his character is so funny to me.

There used to be 8 dwarves. Yes, 8. Stealthy Dwarf was killed by Prince Charming's father's guards.

Prince Charming, btw isn't even a real Prince. He had a twin brother  that Rumplestiltskin stole and gave to the royal family. His twin brother was supposed to fight a dragon, but got killed by some random bad guy so in order to keep a deal with King Midas going bad the King had Rumple get the other twin (Charming). Are we still following along?

Gepetto is an orpahn. Rumplestiltskin (see? I told you he's everywhere!) gave Jiminy Cricket a curse to kill his own parents. Instead it was given to Gepetto's parents; turning them into little wooden puppets. Jiminy was so guilty about it that he wished upon a star to change the parents back. The fairy godmother couldn't change Gepetto's parents, but she was able to change Jiminy into a cricket so he could be Gepetto's conscience.

Josh cracks me up when we're watching because if he's not paying attention to the time and he thinks the episode is almost over he'll yell at the TV "don't you end yet!" haha. love that husband of mine.

This weekend we just started watching season two. I'm telling y'all this is such a great show. At the end of a lot of the episodes in season two Josh and I will look at each other and go "Dun dun dun!" at the same time. haha. The plot thickens.
There's also much more that I've learned in season two, but I'll share those for another day. For now I predict several more late nights after the kids are in bed to get all caught up. 

Have y'all seen any of the seasons? Which is your favorite?