How to Embarrass Your Kids in Three Easy Steps

champion-slides

Step One: While getting ready to go to Target, decide that since it's a warm, sunny day, you'll wear slip-on shoes with no socks. NEW slip-on shoes. Step Two: Realize after twenty minutes of walking around at Target that the backs of the slip-on shoes are sliding up and down against your bare heels and raising painful blisters on both of them. Decide to shuffle over to the shoe department and buy the first pair of comfortable shoes you can find. Step Three: Find the PERFECT pair of Champion slides, with footbeds filled with some kind of gel and covered with satiny fabric, so that each step you take feels like having pillows strapped to your feet. Take off the evil slip-on blistermakers and put on the slides. Which are attached to each other with a piece of white elastic string. Which you can't take off because you don't have scissors in your purse. Step Three Continued: So you have to WALK THROUGH THE STORE with your shoes ATTACHED. Because there is no way you are putting the … [Read more...]

Nearly Wordless Wednesday-Retail Therapy

lindseyhobo

I am emotionally wrung out. The last week has been unusually stressful around here, with Chris experiencing pressure and stress at work, me getting way behind on work, the kids picking up on it and being less cooperative than usual-I'm pretty much feeling like I could implode at any time. So today, I did some shopping and bought myself totally fun things just for ME, and it made me feel better! Payless is having a BuyOneGetOne sale, so I bought two pairs of shoes and TWO handbags. I bought: The "Lindsey" Hobo except in Brown The "Vivien" Satchel except in Rose (Love it SO much) These "Trista" sandals from Montego Bay Club And Champion Slip-Ons similar to these except in beige with pink flowers, I couldn't find a link online anywhere. The box says "Pink Ferris" Even at BOGO, the price was much higher than I normally spend on, well, anything ever, but just this once I wanted NEW stuff instead of thrift store stuff, and I love everything I bought. My husband might … [Read more...]