Big Foot's Curse

This week I decided that I wanted to buy new tennis shoes. If you haven't been shoe shopping in awhile, there are some crazy colors and styles out there that's for sure. And it has been some time since I bought myself some shoes because let's face it, once you have kids they consume all of your time, money, energy, money, patience and money. So in between buying Thing 1 and Thing 2 new shoes and clothes and whatever else comes up, I forgot about myself. So this is my mission to buy new shoes.

My issue is that shoes now are either too flashy, too colorful, too crazy or too expensive. (I can no longer justify spending more than $50 on shoes for myself.) Or the shoes just didn't fit which is why this post is titled Big Foot's Curse. See I graduated high school a size 8 1/2. After Paige was born I think I went up to a 9, sometimes 9 1/2 and sometimes wide depending on the style of shoe. Then after Chase, I permanently settled in at a 9 1/2 -10 and usually wide. As if wrecking my belly wasn't enough those kids had to stretch my feet. I always was happy with my shoe size because at 5' 8.5" tall a shoe size of 8 1/2 really is pretty small (in my opinion). Now I feel like I have small tug boats for feet and certain shoes make those small tug boats look like barges. Needless to say I don't like shopping for shoes.

A few days ago I began my quest for new shoes. I spent about 45 minutes in Rack Room Shoes with no success. I walked up and down every aisle so many times I think the sales clerk thought I was casing the place to steal something. Then I went to Dick's and found a really nice pair of Under Armour shoes, on sale and not too crazy flashy. I loved them but the problem was that I needed a half size bigger and Dick's didn't have it. Big Foot's Curse strikes again! Tonight I just spent over an hour at the mall (with family in tow) and didn't find my perfect pair of shoes. So over the next couple days I will check the surrounding Dick's stores to see if they have the shoes I like in Big Foot's size.

Hello again!

So it has been WAY too long since I have even touched this blog. Originally it started out as a way for my husband and I (although mostly me because we all know who the better writer is - sorry honey) to update far away friends and family on the happenings of our two children, Paige and Chase. Well that never happened. So I am giving it a second chance. Although I would like to change the URL, not that I don't like my daughter's name (I did pick that name with the help of the husband - thank you baby) but I don't want it to seem completely about her especially since we have Thing 2...I mean child number 2 added to the mix. If anyone knows how to change that, please enlighten me.

Now I would like to use this blog to still talk about things that are important to me; mainly my family, but I would also like to speak my mind (ha!) about other things or just be able to go off on random tangents about whatever I feel like and I know that the people reading this will be cool with that because they are my peeps and like me for who I am. So if you don't care then please don't read. I am not one of those people who air all my dirty laundry on social media sites for the world to see and for "friends" on those sites to wonder "I wonder what is going on there?" or "I wonder what happened?" or "Is she talking about me?" because that is not me at all and anyone that knows me can tell you that. I am more private when it comes to my personal life unless I really know you and trust you with my private details of my life. Anyway...see there I go off on a random tangent and if my husband was reading this he would say I am crazy and he is probably right. So I digress.

My goal is to just write about topics that are relevant to my life at the moment. Or topics that get people thinking and sometimes my own crazy opinions when I get into the mentality that I can solve all the problems in the world. I am thinking about food and wine, kids, cleaning, school, travel...you know...just life. But I am going to try to stay out of politics. That's not how I roll.

So enjoy if you decide to read what I have to say. I am not looking to change anyone's viewpoints. I am just trying something new because I have seen a few friends blog and I want to try. Who knows maybe it will lead to something?

Update

Wow! It has been over a year since I have updated this page. So in the past year this is what has happened...

Chase Burton Sarver was born on May 12, 2009 at 7:21 am and weighed in at 9 lbs 7 oz (3 oz smaller than his sister) and 20 1/2 inches long. So now Chase is one year old and almost 24 lbs and 30 1/2 inches long. He is saying the normal words "mama", "dada", and has his own words for dog and a few other things. He is 100% all boy! He would rather walk and climb than sit and listen to a book. He is into everything and notices it all. I had my easy child first and this boy is really putting me thru the run around.

Paige is finishing up pre-school. She still has another year before Kindergarden and is super-smart already. She should start in the fall based on her intelligence and maturity but she unfortunately misses the cut off. She is into Breyer horses now. Paige is also a yellow belt in tae kwon do. She has been taking that since September 2009. She also plays soccer and excels at both.

That is pretty much the past year in a nut shell. The kids are keeping us busy to do too much else.

Paige and baby brother update

A lot has happened lately. Paige started pre-school at St. Mark's this January. She goes Tuesday and Thursday from 9-12 and loves it. She is learning how to cut with scissors and socialization skills and of course manners. We have seen her grow in the short time she has been there. And it give Mommy a few hours to herself twice a week. She adjusted wonderfully to school. I drop her off and the director takes her from the car and she walks into the building with her backpack then at pick-up time they bring her out to the car. She has show and tell every Thursday and also music and movement class. She will be going three days in the fall.

On the baby front, everything is looking good. We have a stroller and car seat now thanks to Grandma and Great-Grandma. We've also bought a few outfits, including one he may come home from the hospital in and have picked out some paint colors for the nursery. His estimated due date is May 17 so we are looking around May 10 as his birthday. Talk about a Mother's Day present. And we are just about 100% sure his name will be Chase. Paige is excited to be a big sister and enjoys looking at baby stuff in the stores.