An Authentically Genuine Minnesota Fall Bucket List In Photos

With fall just a few days away, as the autumnal equinox is on Sunday, let's take the filter off life and take a real look at a fall bucket list. Life isn't always sunshine, rainbows, and sprinkles. It's your kid having a 'blowout' when you arrive at the apple orchard or actually getting lost in a corn maze with the kids. Here are 10 fun, real scenarios you may find yourself in at some point during this fall.

Wine & Design shared a meme last week that stuck with me, not only for the humor but for removing the 'filter' that we often put life in. I've put some photos along with the funny yet real bucket list items.

1. Buy a pumpkin to carve with your kid/kids. You end up doing all the 'work' for them.

2. Buy a caramel apple at a pumpkin patch, step outside with it, and have a bee/wasp immediately land on it. Throw it in the trash.

3. Make your own Pumpkin Spice Latte, realize the package lied, it also tastes like dirt. Go to Caribou/Starbucks and get a 'real' one.

4. Paint your fingernails a festive 'cocoa' color to celebrate fall. It looks like you stuck your finger in poop. (new parents can relate)

5. Get lost in a corn maze. No really, you get lost in a corn maze and have a small panic attack.

6. Sit down as a family to watch a 'spooky' movie. Spend the next week with everyone in your bed, and remind them dolls don't come to life, and witches aren't real.

7. To celebrate fall you go 'crazy' with pumpkin. Pumpkin bread, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin pie. Everything is delicious, but your pants aren't fitting right.

8. You felt festive and hung up a decorative fall wreath. Thanks to the wreath door hanger, you now struggle to close the door.

9. Share some happy fall photos on social media or for your Christmas cards. You know that you quietly threatened your kids that you would sell them if they didn't behave. (Photographers have stories)

10. You buy a cup of warm apple cider while enjoying the fall colors at an orchard, but you realize for the 30th time you don't like cider, but you like the idea of hot apple cider.

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How many of these can you relate to? A point for each one, a perfect score is 10, post your score in the comments!