Shoes

Ok, I am more of a morning person than a night person. Since having kids, I'm usually in bed and fast asleep by 9pm. Being a morning person means that I'm usually cheery in the morning and grumpy by nightfall. Battling allergies and a bit of a cold this week and still dealing with the time-change has made me a bit of a not-any-time-of-day person. So this morning, I am running around doing the last minute things, like redoing Katie's hair for the 5th time, trying to get Zachary to finish brushing his teeth (good heavens he must have some really clean teeth) when I get a minute just long enough to throw on my sneakers. I get them on and take the first step and realize there is something inside my shoe touching my big toe. Well, considering that we have played on a playground full of pebbles the past several days, I just give my foot a jiggle and think this will dislodge the item long enough for me to get Zach to school - as it is now beyond the time we are supposed to be departing. No such luck - it lodges underneath my big toe and I feel more against the other toes. Considering that I have had the terrorizing experience of having spiders and crickets (not to mention a cockroach) in my shoes in years past - I decide that I must remove the shoe and find out the contents - good, bad or ugly. Preparing for the worst, I remove the shoe and out pours a load of ..................... goldfish! At first I was really ticked off because good heavens how long is it going to take me to get all this greasy, crunched up cracker out of my shoe. The more I cleaned it out though, the funnier it got. Neither kid has owned up to it - though both were cracking up - I think it must've been a group effort as the goldfish were pushed all the way up into the toe area so they wouldn't be readily discernable. That means that someone smarter than a 2 year old had to have helped................I wonder who that could've been.......hmmmmmmmmmm......

For all who are wondering, I am still cooking dinner 4 nights a week and Mike takes the weekend duties. He still is the culinary wonder and loves just opening up the cookbook and preparing something new and different. We are still doing Mexican Food Mondays - but this month we saved almost $400 just from taking the difference between the cost of home cooked meals and restaurant meals. That's more than enough incentive to keep us cooking - not to mention me dropping 4 pounds!!