Lying on the couch, reading in a rare silence that permeates our home. Joyfully wallowing in this luxury, shoes kicked off, a good book and a glass of sweet tea.......... perfection.
(This is as close to perfection as I can get in my life without being on a beach, 20 pounds thinner and 10 years younger.)
It isn't long before I hear the patter of bare feet on the kitchen linoleum, the hmmmm from teenager’s lips as she rocks to her little pink IPod. She rounds the corner, looks at me with a smile and sits down. She eyes my shoes, eyes me, and the gracefully slides her thin feet into my shoes; with her eyebrows raised, she tilts her feet this way and then that way.
She shrugs her shoulders, "They ARE really comfortable, but would NEVER wear them, they are, ummmm, like, MOMMY Shoes." (Teenage speak for: they are U.G.L.Y.)
Disdain actually dripping from her voice.
“Hmmm…KAY. News bulletin. I am a mommy,” my weak reply.
“Yeah, but you chose to wear mommy shoes, you could, like, chose to wear cool shoes.”
“I like those shoes.”
“Yeah, but they are not cool.”
“So what you’re really saying that I am not cool.”
She draws herself off the couch, saunters to the doorway, looks over her shoulder and smiles, “Yeah, pretty much.”
OUCH.
15 comments:
Those shoes look waay cooler than my sneakers.
Wonder what that says about this Mommy.
I'm with you. I'll take comfort over cool anyday. Besides, my idea of cool is very different than a teenagers idea of cool, and I'm ok with that.
(P.S. Good to have you back! I've missed you.)
Very. Cute. Shoes.
Teenagers have brain damage. Everyone knows that :D
Welcome back to your new groove.
She still has a long way to grow, lol... I think your shoes are cool! I love the color & they look very comfy!
I always take comfort over coolness. I don't get the shoes that some people wear...and the pain they must be in all day long.
I think they are cool. She probably does too but can't say due to unspoken messed up teenage rules.
Yeah, in ten years, they'll be "retro" and she'll get pissed that you threw them away! :)
I think they are cute and I have to say I am a shoe person. I would choose style over comfort but I think those are great, especially the color! Being 5"2, I only wear shoes with a some kind of heel, wedge or whatever so I can't pull them off but...
They're cute! But I'm a mom too, what do I know?
Ouch is right! Brutal - sigh - another thing I have to look forward too - being totally uncool in my kids' eyes.
Missin' ya!
loooove these
I say at this point go for comfort! I love those shoes anyway!
Where are you? Hope everything's ok.
I love those shoes they look cool to me, but then again i am a mom too!
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