No, I’m not talking about new shoes for the girls. They don’t stand yet and so they don’t get shoes. Once they can stand, our daycare requires that we bring shoes, but no shoes for now. I’m talking about new shoes for me.
I’ve been wearing the same pair of black shoes to work five days a week for about four years. This is through travel to Columbus, Atlanta, and Chicago. They’re a pair of ecco shoes and they’re quite comfortable, but this winter I noticed that they’re starting to wear through. The sole of the right shoe is cracked and when it rains, water seeps all the way through and I end up with damp socks. I’ve started bringing an extra pair of socks to work on rainy days.
For a little over three months I’ve been saying that I need new shoes. We tried going shopping for shoes on January 26th, the last day that Agnes’ parents took the girls to their house for the night, but I didn’t end up finding anything I liked that day. Since that time, the girls have been with us every evening and every weekend, so it’s been hard to get out shoe shopping. Either we all make a trip out of it and we bring the girls to the shoe store, or I leave the girls with Agnes for an hour or two. There isn’t really a problem in Agnes taking care of the girls for a couple of hours, but I just felt guilty going shoe shopping when I can also be helping to take care of the kids.
Anyway, for the past three months, I’ve continued to wear these shoes with a cracked sole. I tried to put duct tape on the sole to keep water out, but that didn’t really work. Also, people at work looked at me funny. I also considered getting some shoe goo, but I never quite made it out to the store to look for some. Finally, today we all went out for a shoe shopping outing and I got a new pair of shoes. They’re the first pair of slip-on shoes that I’ve had in quite a long time–I wanted shoes that don’t have laces so that I can manage to put on my shoes while holding Eleanor and Miranda when I pick them up from daycare. They’re pretty comfortable, and I hope they last a good long time.
Try out shoes.com, shoebuy.com, or shoedini.com. They all have free shipping and returns so it’s pretty easy to shop at home and send back anything that doesn’t fit.
Ooh! I hope the duct tape wasn’t that bright silver kind. If so, did you try coloring it with black marker?
Unfortunately, it was the bright silver kind of duct tape. I didn’t color it in with a black marker–I was hoping that people wouldn’t see it since it was on the bottom of my shoe.
bernard, i think ecco can resole their shoes since they’re so expensive… try that. ask the walking company.
i know mephistos definitely does
hey bernard,
shoo be doo is having a sale on selected shoes, including ECCO until 4/30. $50 off if you enter the code REWARDS
here’s the link
http://www.shoobedoo.com/sale3.html