He's never mentioned in the stories.
Maybe because Cinderella's a little embarrassed...
She may lose one shoe, but it's eventually returned.
Cinder-Ethan manages to lose BOTH shoes.
Not just once.
TWICE!!
In a six-month period.
Ay-yi-yi! You're killing me, kid! And our bank account. Kids' shoes are not cheap!
Luckily, the first pair lost was at the end of summer and it was his sandals that he'd already outgrown. Not too much of a loss. We even tried to go back and get them. I hope whoever took them had a child in desperate need of sandals - even if they were stinky, little boy sandals!
Pair number two went missing just 2 weeks ago. Friday morning, to be exact. Sometime between 8am and 9am, or whenever we heard the beeping from the Recycle truck backing up. Of course, at the time, we knew nothing of the missing shoes.
But let me back up just a bit....
One of Ethan's chores is to take out the recycling. We keep a cardboard box by the front door, behind the recliner. We also keep some shoes behind the recliner. {See where this is going, yet?} Our garbage and recycling is picked up Friday mornings, so Thursday night Ethan put on his shoes, took out the recycling, came back in the house, put the recycle box back behind the chair and carelessly threw his shoes inside the box....
And then I carelessly left them there, not thinking much of it because the recycling had already been taken out....
And then a flattened cereal box got put in the recycling box....
And then Sean carelessly dumped the recycling box into the recycle bin and pushed it to the street early Friday morning....
And then the recycle guys carelessly took our recycle bin and dumped it in their big truck. How dare they not check first for a pair of little boys' shoes!!
And sometime Friday afternoon, while straightening the living room, I noticed the completely empty recycle box sitting behind the chair. Panic set in. And disbelief. Surely Ethan's fancy-schmancy light-up shoes that he's only had a few months or so did not really get thrown into the recycle bin and then hauled off by the recycle truck. Preposterous!
But his shoes were nowhere to be found behind the chair. Or in his room. Or by the back door. Or under the couch. Or anywhere else I was hoping they somehow mysteriously walked off to on their own.
Dang.
$17.99 plus tax, down the drain. Or recycle bin.
And no one to place the full blame on... Ethan shouldn't have put them in the box in the first place, I should have grabbed them out of the box and Sean could have checked the box {or left it - there was only one thing in there. Curse his thoroughness!!} which had to have seemed a little heavy for just containing a cereal box.
Dang, again!!
Not that Ethan doesn't have shoes. These were just the newest and sturdiest of his small collection - which only includes church shoes, plaid canvas shoes and some too-small lace-up running shoes.
Off to Target we went.... After a discussion on how there would be no whining about which shoes he got because Mommy would be picking them out since he had not taken better care of his last ones.
We lucked out. Boy howdy, did we luck out!
While the fancy-schmancy light-up shoes were not on sale, several other styles were. We got TWO!! Count them: one, TWO pairs of shoes for less than the cost of the fancy-schmancy light-up shoes. A pair of brown, casual/dressy shoes for $8.48 - they were half off and look good with jeans OR his khakis for church on Sunday.
AND a pair of super-cool, light-blue-with-dinosaur-skeletons Converse (well, the One Star line that Converse makes) for $8.68!! They retailed for $28.99, which means I got them for 70% off. Woot woot!!
And, fingers crossed, maybe the fancy-schmancy light-up shoes will go on sale between now and Ethan's birthday. Or maybe we'll make a trip down south to the Nike outlet store. Because he kind of still needs a sturdy pair of shoes he can wear outside and not worry about getting yelled at by mom for getting them dirty!
Bottom line: Ethan learned his lesson! And so did mom. And dad.
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