My Fifteen Minutes

I know a few of my friends out there are familiar with RFML or for the newbies "Rants From Mommyland". This is far and away one of my favourite blogs.  To be fair, the only one that beats it out is DYAC (Damn You Autocorrect!), which pretty much has me in tears of laughter every day.  (How do you not love a blog that posts accidentally awkward texts?)

Anyway, last year, RFML put out a call for "kitschy" type things from around the home, and I sent them the following picture:

Some of you will recognize this...it hangs next to the man (ahem) door between my garage and house.  My "backdoor", if you will.  It has been hanging there since the dawn of time, and is one of the many items inherited by us when we moved into my grandparents house.

Anyway, after a rather humourous email exchange with Kate and Lydia (the kick ass authors of RFML), they decided to hold a caption contest for my little photo.  Below is the blog post dedicated to that contest.  The comments are rid.ic.u.lous.

Probably the only thing that has made me laugh harder than DYAC...

http://www.rantsfrommommyland.com/2010/12/caption-contest-back-door-friends.html

Off to find something that could possibly top that for this year...

I love the beach...

Today, we decided to go to the beach.

I LOVE the beach...and after last summer, it was finally nice to be reunited.

But I forgot there would be sand.

We arrived, and got out of the car.

And my sandals were full of sand.

We set down our bags and spread out our towels.

And they were full of sand.

In the water, we all splashed and played with the spirit of a two year old.

And my bathing suit was filled with sand.

Silly me, forgot I brought a toddler...

And he ate the sand.

We dried off, "cleaned up" and headed back to the car.

And it, of course, is full of sand.

We headed home in the warm afternoon sun, dirty, wet and sleepy.

And my heart is fully of joy. And sand.