This is a picture of Sneedlet One and my Merrill slip ons, which he refers to as our gatatoes, his variation of potatoes. No one is sure where he picked up calling them potatoes, but one day he just announced that he was putting my "gatatoes" in the closet for me.
I love my Merrill slip ons because men have gotten the short end of this shoelace business for too long. Anything I can put on my feet without tying is a-one by me.
I took Sneedlet to the mall to play yesterday and since I was too lazy to put his tennis shoes on him, I made him wear a pair of cheapo Old Navy flip-flops. He tried to tell me that they didn't fit, but I ignored him. They proved to be a disaster, a fact I discovered only after we were in the store. We had to backtrack to find a missing flip-flop about ten times. I hauled him to the kid's shoe department to find better flip-flops, ones with straps in the back. Once he laid eyes on toddler-sized gatatoes, it was a done deal.
My decision to not tie his tennis shoes was a forty-six dollar mistake in judgment. I proved again that it is the laziest man who does the most work and the cheapest man that spends the most.
I posted a picture of a desert willow yesterday that I took off the internet. I went next door this morning and got a real photo.
This is a picture of the desert willow blossoms blanketing Tracey's yard. It is interesting how the shadows play on the pink background.
Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky
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5 comments:
Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaleee! Did I understand correctly? Did you spend $46 on kid shoes? Sneedlet is a lucky kid, but those gatatoes look very comfy. My kids get the Wal-Mart special. I think $6.49 is more than enough money to spend on a pair of shoes that will be outgrown in a couple of months. I'm so cheap.
I love shoes. feet often get a bad deal, when you think how they carry us around all day. The Gatatoes (sounds like kittytoes to me, and they do slightly resemble a furry cat paw) look nice-- I agree with flawed though, too--size changes times 3 kids-- might make me think twice about gatatoes for everyone! Sneedlet is a lucky kid-- he's a sweetie pie though...
love the pics-- the shoe pic says a lot about your little man Sneedlet. Maybe he was trying to say
Gato-toes.
shadows are cool
I had the knee surgery in '04, and I have to wear old man walking shoes now. No more good-looking shoes for me.
They DO look like potatoes. What a smart kid! (I want a pair.)
Love that last photo.
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