Once upon a time, long ago in the early 1980’s, there was a small little hobo named Brooke. She wore an oversized vest, an old sweater, rainbow suspenders, moon boots, a bright orange hat, and apparently she didn’t have access to a mirror because she majorly missed the mark with her lipstick and her hair hadn’t seen a comb for days.
Brooke the Hobo was forlorn and melancholy because she didn’t have any friends to play with. Her cardboard box was too small for playdates. To make matters worse, Brooke was being held captive by the ruthless villain, the Chubby Devil!!! So one day she met two fashionable girls with big gold birds on their shirts, capes and skirts, with beautiful hair and faces. To her astonishment, they were super heroes! They were called Wonder Women, and they were sisters, working under the alter-egos Julie and Amy!! And their mother could spin thread into gold.
Brooke was skeptical of their powers and was slightly jealous of their beauty and fashion sense, but soon they became fast friends/cousins, and eventually saved Brooke the Hobo from the evil clutches of the Chubby Devil, who she later found out was the little brother of the Wonder Women, and his name was actually Jeff. And he really wasn’t evil, he was just sleepy and needed a nap.
The End.
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LOVE the photo. It's just so…. YOU.
Your mom is too clever. Are your kids going to be hobos this year?
Dying about this!!! Seriously. Best. Picture. Ever.
Great picture! Thanks for the post, I'll be on the edge of my seat waiting for the next one!
Just great. I love it when I actually laugh out loud. Thanks Brooke!
SERIOUSLY….that photo is priceless! And the story is rather entertaining too! LOVE LOVE it!
LOL. like all day. Way funny.
That was great! LOL. Too cute!
You're killin' me, and the best part is that I know everyone in the picture, that's so funny.
I died laughing as I read your story and looked at the illustration! You are so much fun!!
Just checking….you know, just in case!
Cute photo!! I have a random question for you, I found your blog this week looking for a chore chart for my kids. I am in LOVE with yours. I tried to use the template, but ya know, it just didn't work for me (either I or my photoshop have problems). Would you consider changing the names on yours and emailing them to me if I paid you? I really really love them. If you can't/don't want to, no worries. Thanks Syd – yyendyss@yahoo.com and my blog/family is at schto-za.blogspot.com
I can't believe how hard I'm laughing right now. I forgot how hilarious that picture is. I love the big grin on my face…so proud to be wonder woman. Yours is equally fitting. I love your mom! Lets get together soon and laugh about this all over again. Love you.
Ummm… yeah. It took years for me to get over the emotional scars caused by this photo… thanks for re-opening those wounds.
Jeff (aka: The Chubby Devil)
I have to say, I've never seen a child dressed as a hobo for Halloween. That is the funniest picture!
AWESOME!!!! I am laughing so hard!!
Ha ha! So funny! Good thing your fashion sense has evolved. Wait…I've seen your festive sweaters… 😉
So the stores in the 80s didn't sell cute, fuzzy costumes for my little ones. So what? Better to expose them to the sad facts of what the results/consequences would be of a life spent skipping door-to-door begging for stuff. @#$% Halloween! (And so what if my sister-in-law taught school full-time and had four babies under 5 and cooked dinner every night and probably ironed her crib sheets – anyone could do that AND sew costumes that will HAUNT me the rest of my life!) I'm not bitter.
HA HA HA! Oh Mommy (aka Russ), you are too funny!! I love to tease you about this picture!!!
It's my favorite. Well, the strawberry and watermelon were really cool too. See, you CAN make stuff. 
My son will have a similar story in 20 years…his mom allowed him to be a butterfly! Oh, the trauma and emotional scarring.