Shoes and Excess

We have an overabundance of shoes here in Jaj-ville. They seem to multiply like rabbits. Too many shoes. But Molly is doing her part in helping to control the shoe population. Which isn't always a good thing. She chewed a pair of Tigger's shoes...she seems to like his the best...so I had to buy him a new pair. And then a note was sent home on Monday telling me that Tigger's shoes are leaving marks on the gym floor. So I had to buy him another new pair. And even though there was a sticker on the bottom of each shoe saying they were non-marking shoes, they still left marks. Which means if it's raining out, like it is today and yesterday and has been for most of the past month, he can't participate in indoor recess or gym class since they use the gym...and his shoes leave marks. I could take them back to the store and get a refund, but they light up. And if I did take them back, it would break his heart. So yesterday I found a pair with completely white soles, and they were on sale. So I bought them. And I showed them to Tigger this morning, and surprisingly they light up too. Except they have 2 little hearts on each side. I didn't mean to buy girly shoes - they look like boy shoes, and the lights flashing are red and ugly green and you can really only tell that they actually have hearts if you're looking at them closely. But still. He loves them. So now, for my 7 year-old child we have a pair of sandals - new from Florida because Molly chewed his old ones, church shoes, spiderman shoes which were his indoor shoes but we can't use them anymore because of the marks (his classroom is carpeted so all the kids need indoor and outdoor shoes), brown outdoor shoes which are fairly new because Molly again chewed his old ones, the new Cars light-up shoe which we can't use as indoor shoes but Tigger loves them and is now wearing them as his outdoor shoes, and the new girly indoor shoes. Oh, and spiderman winter boots. A little excessive.

But you think the shoe thing is excessive? Husband is now sporting 3 cell phones. Count 'em - Three. He has his old one, which a lot of people know the number, but it broke and now only works on speaker phone, the new one he's trying out but has lousy signal and if you leave a message on that phone, it's at least 45 minutes before he even knows he has a message, so he's pretty sure he won't be buying it, and the most recent new one from Chickie-Poo from a competetor company. And he wears them all on his belt. One guy noticed them and said My Gawd man, you only have 2 ears! And you know the really sad thing? He's had all three ringing at once as well as someone trying to reach him on the office phone. A little excessive.

So speaking of excess, I need more coffee.