Sometimes I wonder what happened to Cinderella after she married the prince. Sure, he carried her off into the sunset on his strong and trusty steed, but I have some clues alluding what happened to her after she left her oppressive step mother and greedy stepsisters to live with her tall, dark and handsome prince in the palace.

Everything was love and unicorns in the way of a fabulous honeymoon.

Then Cinderella got knocked up.

And everything in the way of love and unicorns went south with two screaming babes complete with rancid diapers and sheer exhaustion. Her once deep and meaningful conversations with the prince were now constantly interrupted by the children's interjections and various career driven distractions. As if things weren't hard enough, the kingdom's economy went to crack, so the prince, however helpful he tried to be, was forced to let all the palace help go. There Cinderella sat, with no help from her furry animal friends, due to the elicit pest control within the palace walls. They were no longer welcome. And quite often, as she scrubbed the toilets (all twenty seven of them) she desperately wondered where the heck her so-called fairy God-mother was every time she received a post card from her marked "Tahiti," "Barbados" or "Scranton."

And then one day, while she was scrubbing the carpet to salvage it from stain remnants of the latest diaper explosion, her oldest child sheepishly brought her the pieces of her glass slipper. It had been completely shattered in a presumably innocent game of racket ball in mommy's closet. Cinderella laughed hysterically because not only would her foot no longer fit in said glass slipper, but the final symbol of her past life simply didn't matter. She wore sweats all the time, anyway. Those slippers wouldn't really match her day to day attire.

Oh the irony of it all.   

So, I have a strong belief that Cinderella escaped to the palace with her prince, only to find her responsibilities doubled, and her life, though wonderful, completely overwhelming. Her expectations of love and a life of glamour completely distorted by the plethora of Disney movies she caught in a glimpse while hemming her step mother's latest ball gown. 

And they all lived (Realistically) Happily Ever After.