Why I Like Shopping With My Son

My son and I were on a quest on the day before Christmas. We needed to find a pair of winter boots. Yep, he's been wearing sandels and white socks to school this winter. So we started at Burlington Coat Factory, moved on to Famous Footwear, landed at Marshall's, and finallly bought the boots at Walmart. Along the way, we learned that boots are pretty much the same wherever you go. It took 3 stores to accept that there's no such thing as half sizes in boots. Famous Footwear didn't have his size, and if it had, we would have ended up buying two pair of something, taken 50% off the second pair, and then 20% off the whole deal in order to get the price down to what all the other stores were charging. So keep that in mind if you need to buy cheap plastic molded snow boots.

But Marshalls was where we had THE BEST TIME. Because we spotted the MOST AMAZING SHOES. I got so excited I had to try them on. My boy said there was no way I could walk in them, but I proved him wrong. We giggled and chortled and took pictures, and I have to say, it really is true that if you wear an extra five inches on your feet, you really do look taller and skinnier. Don't you agree?

Oh, come on, don't I look, like, 12 feet tall? I'm an AMAZON! and look at the shoes! My boy says they look like rat shoes. The funny thing is, they didn't even feel like fake fur. They were like threads.

Hey, do you like the way my socks really set off the look? I have a real flair for fashion.

I have to admit, if they had cost $5, I'd have bought them and would be clunking around the living room in them right now. But these precious gems were going for $90, so, sadly, no such luck.

Of  course, this reminds me of a recent trip to the hospital with my Mom. I guess it was on Halloween, because there she was, this itty bitty thing, all snuggled up in the hospital bed, with her feet sticking out, wearing the same socks. At least she wears hers on the appropriate holiday. We have a bit of a thing over here where my Mom buys holiday-appropriate socks for us girls for various events. I'm to the point now where all I own are holiday socks and hand-knitted socks.