The poor little shoe....

This is a story about a shoe so bear with me...
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So the first few days we were home, Noah had his days and nights mixed up....which was hard. Okay really hard! Okay VERY, VERY HARD! Not so much that I wasn't getting much sleep at night, but that I wasn't getting much sleep at night and then having to entertain a toddler during the day! But now Noah is in a pretty good rythym. Really only waking once to eat and when I awake in the morning I actually feel like I got a good night sleep. But running and caring for both during the day has got me running around like a chicken with my head cut off some days! (although I wouldn't have it any other way!)
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And since I am always running like a chicken with my head cut off, I have done some pretty dumb things. Did I mention I put Meredith shoes on the wrong feet at least twice during the last 2 weeks (and that is only the times I noticed, who knows how many I didn't). In the past two weeks though did manage to get out of the house and to a friend's house alone, with both kiddos and no one was left at home and no one rode on the roof of the van on the way to her house! (oops did I spill the beans I drive a van -- I pretend it is a mercedes) The only thing I did forget on this outing was Meredith's diapers, which is the second time I did this. The first time was at Noah's two day check up with the pediatrician. On both occasions Meredith made some poop that smelled darn right rancid! Thankfully my friends daughter wears the same size diapers and gave us one! No such luck at the pediatrician's office, we just stunk up the place and heard Meredith say "Mama Poop!" about a dozen or twenty or so times.
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But my biggest Ooops! since having two to take care of is something that only affects me! (thank goodness) Well me and my wallet (so in a way Josh too!) Anyway I went to Belks and got some new black heels to wear to my grandpa's birthday party! Well me being me, I actually got a pair of black heels, a pair of black boots, and a pair of red heels to wear to my grandpa's party! I know I now have as many pairs of red shoes as meredith (and trust me she has too many! Her momma loves red shoes!) Anyway I got a pair of black heels for the party. Very cute, match the dress very nicely! I didn't actually wear them to the party though, I wore the red ones. However I fully intended to keep all 3 pairs to go with 1 dress and had plans to wear them sometime soon.
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Back to the story.....
So the black shoes were hanging out in my room with everything else that was out of place in this house. Meredith has played in them a few times this week as well as all the other shoes laying on the floor in my room (including Josh's). I was okay with that, both Meredith playing in them and them laying on the floor. And then on Tuesday I couldnt' take the mess anymore so I started to clean up my room (gasp!) I put the laundry in the hampers, the dirty diapers in the trash, the toys in the playroom, the empty diet coke cans in the trash, cups in the sink and the shoes in the closet! Whew, it makes me tired just thinking of the picking up I did in our room. Then I took the shoe boxes from all the new shoes I had just bought that were thrown haphazardly throughout the room and debated on keeping them and stacking them neatly on the shelf in my closet with the shoes in them. Then I had to laugh at myself and thought....yeah right! Just throw the damn boxes out, they will take up so much room and the shoes will never wind up back in the boxes after I try them on with an outfit, much less wear them. When I wear them they barely make it out the car when we get home as my feet always hurt (I don't wear comfortable shoes).
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So I picked up the shoes, threw them in the closet, the new ones, some old ones and some of Josh's. And then I picked up the bags and boxes and put them by the back door to go out for the trash. Well trash day is Wednesday..... do you see where this is going? And my husband who normally needs 10 thousand reminders to take the boxes by the back door out with the trash, actually picked up all those boxes and bags with no reminder. Wednesday afternoon I was standing in my closet and only saw 1 black heel, so I searched high and low for that other new shoe. And then I remembered, I had never taken the 2nd shoe out the box. The night before the party I tried on the black heel on the right foot, the red heel on the left foot and asked Josh which looked better. He said red, so the black one stayed camped out on the floor and the mate tucked neatly in it's box. Poor shoe never made it to the floor, much less the closet.
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So needless to say I am now in search for another pair of cute, closed toe black heels to wear with a very cute sweater dress! I will need them by Noah's christening, unless I find another very cute dress and then I have to start all over!