Ode to the Pink Sparkly Jelly Flip Flop

Recently we went through a period of mourning.

You see, when you are 3 and you receive a pair of pink glittery jelly flip flops with glitter inside the jelly part you are over the moon.

When you are 3 and your Nana gives you these pink sparkly jelly flip flops not only do you sleep in them the first night you get to her house and receive them. You put them on each morning the very nano second that you get out of bed and you wear them until the moment your mom makes you take them off.

When you are 3 and you have such shoes you absolutely lose it when your brother thinks of touching one speck of pink sparkly-ness that is on your flip flops. Not only do you lose it, you make sure that the squeal is so ear piercing that it could shatter plastic.

When you are 3 no matter how badly your feet sweat in pink sparkly jelly flip flops, you soldier on. You don't care that sand from the park, the yard or any parking lot gets on the sweaty flip flop and makes you look like your mom let you walk through wal mart with no shoes.

This is because you are 3 and you have pink sparkly jelly flip flops.

When you are 3 and you put your pink sparkly jelly flip flops through heck day in and day out sooner or later your flip can flop no more. And that's, when you don't understand that Target doesn't always carry a toddler size 9 of replacement pink sparkly jelly flip flops.