A funny thing happened on the way to the photo shoot…

So, yesterday, the Monsters and I headed out to get our family pictures done. We always have some interesting conversations in the car, but this one made me laugh for like, an hour.

I don’t know how but we got on the subject of names. Both my kids have names that are because of certain actors that I had a big time fangirl crush on. One is Elijah Wood and the other is Christian Slater. Well, I’ve told my kids this before, but I guess they’re getting to that teenage “WTF?” stage, because everything I do embarrasses them, which of course, is HILARIOUS to me.

Neither one of them actually knew the name of either actor, so I had to tell them what roles they played.

So angry!

So for Christian Slater, I told them he was Will Scarlett in the Prince of Thieves. I probably could have found a better role, but I was driving and didn’t have access to IMDB to mention more and I was having a serious brain fart.

And Christian Slater was totally hot in the Prince of Thieves. He had that brooding, angry look going for him. Of course that’s the one I remember.

Seriously, I had such a crush on this kid back then.

Anyway, of course, for Elijah Wood, I had to mention Frodo from Lord of the Rings, even though the very first movie I’d ever seen him in was Huck Finn and I was like, ten or so when that came out. Maybe twelve.

Yes, I’ve adored Elijah Wood since the early nineties. I grew up loving that guy, and he’s the same age, so it’s like he grew up with me. LOL.

Remember how I said I like to embarrass my kids? Yeah. So, I was talking about Frodo and Sam and how they were so close they were like brothers, and then I had a moment of awesome… and I decided, because I thought it would be cool, to tell them I was going to call them Frodo and Sam from now on.

So yeah. My kids officially are now known as Frodo and Sam. They hate it. I love it. It’s awesome.

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