While we were out shopping today we decided to pick up a pair of sandals and new indoor shoes for school because he's grown out of one pair of shoes....it's amazing how fast they grow! But all the sports 'super' stores don't carry Tim's size!! Did you know that every single kid in Sarnia is size 11?? Yeah, pretty incredible huh? But it's true - every store would have a bunch of size 10's and a million size 12's....but like 1 in stock pair of size 11 in the ugliest pair of shoes. Arrrrggggg!! Garnet and I drove around to about 50 stores today looking for size 11 shoes and sandals-- they are completely impossible to find!! And you know Garnet -- once he's got it in his head to do something he'll obsess and is unable to think about anything else until the job is done. So yeah, he was ready to pick Tim up from school and drive to London tonight to find a pair of Sandals!! Thankfully we found a pair - sort of settling, (because they weren't as nice as some of the other's that we would have liked) but they met inspection...from both the boys ;)
We were also trying to avoid problems that we've had in the past which probably made for a smaller pool of choices too. The first year we bought him Nike sandals and had to get them re-stitched twice! Last year we got Columbia and they barely made it through the summer also! His Adidas indoor shoes at school had the zipper break off - and now they don't unzip! I realize boys are tough on their clothing and stuff -- but we have been a little dissappointed. So this year Garnet was very thorough in checking all the 'problem areas' out....yes, I walked away at a fw stores and gave the look like; "who's with him??"....but you gotta love him!
And we are finally satisfied!!
xo J
Big Kick
See the cleats??
Pretty cool -- they call for a thumbs up in Tim's book ;)
1 comment:
cool shoes, tim! hopefully we can play soccer with you some time this summer :) you'll have to teach kaeden and ellia all your moves :)
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