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?