A Mommy Story

This mixes two of my favorite pastimes: reading other parent blogs, and winning free stuff.

A Mama’s Rant has copy of Sara Ellington’s book to give away to the person with the funniest picture of a child, along with a short story behind the photo. So here goes.

The set up: I was home alone with Cordelia, and she was playing quietly, so I went around the corner to check my e-mail. She was out of my sight for maybe 5 minutes. I could hear her laughing and playing with something. Hell, I was just happy that she was happy. Finally, I got up to see just what was making her so happy, because she’s not the sort of child to enjoy playing with her toys for more than, oh, 30 seconds.

Here’s what I saw:

Look at her trying to hide the tissue in her hand. The child had found TWO boxes of tissues, and was having a blast pulling them out, one at a time. She was sitting on a soft tissue cloud that she had made herself.

Of course, my appearance didn’t slow her down.

So that’s my entry. I don’t know if it qualifies as the funniest picture, but I found it to be hilarious. And it had a much better story behind it than this one:

I swear her father is not Gene Simmons.

Get your amusing photos in your blogs by Jan. 9 if you want to participate!