The Weird and Wonderful World Wide Web

Wanted to share the weird/interesting/disgusting things people type into their search engines and somehow find my blog. 

The most popular search is “Wedding Ring Cartoon”, plus some other variations on that theme.  I would imagine it’s taking people to my blog entitled 42 Years and Counting….

I think the search term “best freckle friend” is just plain cute.  Everyone should all have our own “best freckle friend”, alas us natural redheads are few and far between.  I realize that all hair-colours and ethnicities have freckles but we are the originals.

One that confuses me is “cake birthday children twin man/woman 2 years”.  Umm, are the children twins and the man and woman are 2 years old?  Are the twins 2 years old?  Are the man and woman twins?  So many configurations of this search term that I hope whomever typed it in found what they were looking for.

“Marriage communication cartoons” – don’t look at me for advice about marriage communication.  My ex and I were definitely from different planets when it came to communication, actually probably different solar systems!

“6yo put back diaper” – yay! I wonder why someone was searching this term though. I know it’s a huge thing in my home when my son puts back his diapers after he’s thrown all the unused ones on the floor. Yay for the Tidy Up Song!

Two searches that are disturbing: “son mom hot” and “6 year old girl sex with mom”.  Umm…eww, with a HUGE helping of GROSS on the side.

So, to finish this up on a more positive note, I am pleased that my blog has also been found searching “no wedding rings” (tee hee…) and, more importantly, “words of wisdom inspirational quotes”.  That makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.

Redheads + Sun = Freckles

 

 

 

 

The kids and I spent a couple hours yesterday with friends of ours at a playground near the water. It was crazy hot and sunny out. With 3 redheads and 2 fair-skinned brunettes in our “party”, everyone was sprayed with sunscreen first. DD and her best friend laughed their heads off while they were being sprayed (okay, I did too). DS was NOT impressed. He’s very sensitive to liquid drying, but the feeling was short lived.

 

We also saw and petted some police horses while we were there. DS was even very interested in the horses, which was amazing as he doesn’t go near the horses at my parents’ farm. My kids are now proud owners of “trading cards” of one of the horses…and I deny taking extra time to look at/drool over the police officer in uniform on the front of the card…completely deny it…

 

After spending time with the horses, we all walked over to Pier 4 playground, where there is a very cool replica of a tugboat for kids to play on. Very quickly, the other grown-up with us was dumping water on the kids and they all looked like drowned rats.

 

Today however, the kids and I have been “counting new freckles”. Welcome to the life of redheads! If exposed to sunlight, we freckle. I was fortunate to grow up in a family where my grandmother used to always say that freckles were “marks of beauty” so I seem to have come out of childhood not being embarrassed by freckles like others who freckle easily. Even before my kids had freckles (their father is a redhead too so it was “destined”), I was working on them embracing freckles.

 

Although not a redhead, my dad is very fair-skinned so he and I were always putting sunscreen on when I was a kid, while my mom and brother didn’t “need” to with their darker skin tones. We aimed to use SPF 45 if we could find it…which was very hard to find 30 years ago. I always wanted to get that beautiful tan that all my friends did, but I also knew it wasn’t going to happen. Thankfully, I’m not a redhead that just thinks of sun and gets burnt.

 

My mom gave me a t-shirt once that encompasses redhead vs sunlight perfectly: “Authentic Redhead: Keep Out of Direct Sunlight”. My t-shirt is even in that bright green that ONLY redheads can wear.