Last week was a shoe emergency week. I've tried very hard to avoid this for quite awhile & been successful, but all of a sudden, it caught up to me. Ryan's only shoes had holes, Jared's shoes had holes, and Jacob didn't have any sandals for summer. We headed to Big 5. We found super duper deals on athletic shoes and even a pair of Sunday shoes for Jared. Woohoo! No sandals for Jacob and they had NOTHING to fit Ryan for athletic shoes, but they had this super duper deal on Heeley's. Ryan thinks Heeleys are the coolest and has been wanting a pair for years. I think Heeley's are totally impractical and just asking for accidents. Not to mention that they aren't allowed at school, they're heavy, and usually expensive. But, this is summer, it was the only pair of shoes in Ryan's size & he was desperate, and they were a good deal, so yeah, I caved in and he got 'em! He's fallen a few times, but he's generally gotten the hang of them this past week. Back to the shoe quest -- Ryan still needed some athletic shoes and Jacob didn't have sandals, so I ended up at Famous Footwear a couple days later. After searching the store for what seemed a bazillion hours and going through tons of boxes, I found exactly ONE pair of athletic shoes in his size. Thankfully, it was a pair I thought he'd actually like and I was right. The price --ridiculous. Oh well, bite the bullet, the kid's gotta have shoes he can run in. Let's hope they last throught the summer -- he's so hard on shoes. The good thing was that with their buy one get one half off sale, Jacob's sandals only cost $7.Friday, June 19, 2009
i finally gave in
Last week was a shoe emergency week. I've tried very hard to avoid this for quite awhile & been successful, but all of a sudden, it caught up to me. Ryan's only shoes had holes, Jared's shoes had holes, and Jacob didn't have any sandals for summer. We headed to Big 5. We found super duper deals on athletic shoes and even a pair of Sunday shoes for Jared. Woohoo! No sandals for Jacob and they had NOTHING to fit Ryan for athletic shoes, but they had this super duper deal on Heeley's. Ryan thinks Heeleys are the coolest and has been wanting a pair for years. I think Heeley's are totally impractical and just asking for accidents. Not to mention that they aren't allowed at school, they're heavy, and usually expensive. But, this is summer, it was the only pair of shoes in Ryan's size & he was desperate, and they were a good deal, so yeah, I caved in and he got 'em! He's fallen a few times, but he's generally gotten the hang of them this past week. Back to the shoe quest -- Ryan still needed some athletic shoes and Jacob didn't have sandals, so I ended up at Famous Footwear a couple days later. After searching the store for what seemed a bazillion hours and going through tons of boxes, I found exactly ONE pair of athletic shoes in his size. Thankfully, it was a pair I thought he'd actually like and I was right. The price --ridiculous. Oh well, bite the bullet, the kid's gotta have shoes he can run in. Let's hope they last throught the summer -- he's so hard on shoes. The good thing was that with their buy one get one half off sale, Jacob's sandals only cost $7.
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3 comments:
This is epic. I am so excited for Ryan.
I have been lobbying to get Heelys for Ethan for years. This is awesome.
And you shall keep lobbying. Unless you buy them while I'm gone, or he saves up his own money, it ain't gonna happen!
For the record, when I had to buy Ethan new shoes in March and blogged about it, they lasted exactly 2 months :P. I found myself at Ross after wandering through Sports Authority and Target with no success and got a sort of ugly but pretty sturdy pair of shoes for 7 bucks. So far, they seem to be the winning shoe style and aren't showing all that much wear yet a month into them.
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