December 11

After a particularly hard preschool pick-up on Friday—which involved carrying my squirming toddler through almost-knee-deep snow—I decided it is past time to invest in some snow boots. I remembered that my friend Molly had gone on a search for boots a while back and that my criteria was about the same as hers (waterproof, warm, easy to get on and off). I saw that Scheels carried the brand she ended up with, and we decided to venture forth to try them on. In the parking lot, Ian insisted on holding Simon’s hand, and Simon gave his best big brother speech about staying close in the store and always holding hands. (I thought I might like it better if I could get all three faces in the pic, and I can’t stop chuckling every time I look at the expressions in this one.)

As it turns out, it’s a good thing that we all went because I tried on one pair of boots (a tall pair), and it took the whole family to get it off my foot—I couldn’t bend my nine-months-pregnant self down, and Jason couldn’t get a good grip. If we had been in better moods and the store hadn’t been such a madhouse, it probably would have been really funny. Needless to say, I did not purchase the pair that I got stuck in.

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