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Oct. 30th, 2025
Life with two kids: Wednesday shoes
Oct. 30th, 2025 05:45 pmThis morning Sophia announced, as we were about to leave the house, that she couldn't find her school shoes.
Her black school shoes.
The ones that are and integral part of her Wednesday costume. For the school Halloween disco. This evening.
Jane and I frantically tore the house apart for fifteen minutes and checked *everywhere*. Eventually we forced her, crying, to put on her trainers, promising her that if her shoes turned up we would bring them in to her.
Because we left fifteen minutes late we missed the bus. And so it was that we were halfway through the walk to school when Sophia quietly said "Oh."
And then told me that she'd just remembered that yesterday she'd come home from school in her welly boots, leaving her shoes at her peg.
You'll be delighted to hear that I didn't murder her.
Her black school shoes.
The ones that are and integral part of her Wednesday costume. For the school Halloween disco. This evening.
Jane and I frantically tore the house apart for fifteen minutes and checked *everywhere*. Eventually we forced her, crying, to put on her trainers, promising her that if her shoes turned up we would bring them in to her.
Because we left fifteen minutes late we missed the bus. And so it was that we were halfway through the walk to school when Sophia quietly said "Oh."
And then told me that she'd just remembered that yesterday she'd come home from school in her welly boots, leaving her shoes at her peg.
You'll be delighted to hear that I didn't murder her.