Most people have such busy lives that it's sometimes difficult to find time for family. My extended family used to get together for birthdays, holidays and cookouts, but it just isn't happening any more.
Many years ago I put together a family trip to a local corn maze. It was a wonderful way to spend a Fall afternoon. After the maze, we returned to my house for soup and apple crisp and then we visited a local haunted house. We had such a great time that we made it a yearly family "tradition."
Then, in 2009, we all met at the farm and boarded the hay wagon. As we approached the corn maze my uncle mentioned that the corn didn't seem very tall.
I just figured it was an optical illusion assuming that as we got closer the corn would get taller.
We couldn't believe it when we arrived and the corn was not even shoulder high. It was the most pathetic corn...a poor crop, due to the very wet summer we had.
As we wandered around, actually looking over the top of the corn, we joked about "getting lost" and "finding our way out" and we even whined a little about getting our money back.
It was very disappointing.
I'm proud to say that we
made the best of it.
We had a lot of laughs and
in some areas of the maze (not many)
the corn was actually taller than we were.
Laughing about it afterward, trying to justify the money spent, we decided the day was not a total loss:
- the weather had turned out very nice
- we got a fun hayride out of it
- most important of all...we had spent quality time together
So what if the corn maze sucked! The important thing is we carried on our tradition!
It was then that we decided our new family motto:
Here is a video from 2007 - when the corn was actually CORN:
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