One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Treasure

Each year we go to the beach and each year we arrive home with several sea shells. I usually keep the prettiest or the most unique ones and put them in a bowl in our bathroom. Last summer Uncle Josh found a really big shell and gave it to the kids so when we got home I wrote his name and the year inside so we would always remember that Uncle Josh gave it to them.

Well, I happened to find a shell in John Brady's room over the weekend. A few months ago Brady cooked some oysters and some of the shells ended up in the yard. John Brady found this large oyster shell in the yard and had written in it just as I had done with Josh's shell!

Even though his letters didn't make sense, his little heart did!



Here's John Brady's treasured shell with dirt still stuck to it!