So where were we? Oh yes, the conclusion to my titillating cliff hanger from our shoe (mis)adventures from yesterday!

I let her purple crocs stew in that trash can for about a half hour, while I stewed on what I was going to do.

They were only $4 and they are almost too small. But I could hand them down to my girlfriend Sharon who also has two young daughters… they have a lot of life left in them! I hate to be so wasteful. But on the other hand I want Maxine to know that I say what I mean and I mean what I say!

From your replies I know you all know the inner torment this created!

Class ended and we walked to the door. As I approached the garbage with Maxine perched on my hip I lifted the top as we peered over the edge and looked into the garbage can.

Yup. There they are. “Do you really want to throw them out?” I asked her.

Yes, was her reply.

“What if we get them out and give them to Haylee?”

“YES! Let’s give them to Haylee and buy me new shoes!”

Crap. She’s got it all figured out.

So yes, I snagged those shoes out of the can and now Sharon is thanking her lucky stars she’s got such a great friend who gives her fabulous hand me downs that were pulled from the trash.

Washed and ready to go.

An unexpected twist just this morning though! Maxine came down to see her purple shoes in the delightful pink bag and said she wanted to wear them.

Sorry, kiddo, you trashed them!

“I’m sorry I threw them out Mommy!”

Ava even chimed in with her 5 year old wisdom, “It’s not too late! They are still here! Did you tell Sharon yet?”

Well, yes, thanks to the blog, I’m telling her right now as a matter of fact. Shoes were retrieved, yes. But no, you agreed to hand them down, conversation over.

Someone please send the link to this post to Maxine’s psychiatrist some day, ok?

But even before Maxine had a chance to renege on her shoe offer, I woke up this morning feeling like it was a juice day – except I got downstairs to discover we were out of cucumbers.

I really love cucumber in my green lemonade! They give such a cool, fresh taste, not to mention those suckers deliver a lot of liquid for a little price. I was feeling a little overnight oaty this morning too so I quick prepped some oats to soak for a couple hours and then decided to hop on my bike to head to the corner grocery store to snag a cuke. I’m planning for today to be a rest day so I can take full advantage of the girls being with Ellen and cross off as many things on my to do list as possible. I welcomed the excuse to take a short little ride to the store first thing, it was the perfect start to the morning.

It’s worth noting here that I really hate using plastic bags, especially for just one or two items. I paid for my essential ingredient, declined the offer for a bag and stuffed my cucumber in my pocket. Upon approaching the road and intersection though I started to wonder if maybe was today was the day I should have accepted the offer for plastic bag.

Is that a cucumber in your pocket or am I just happy I’m making juice today?

Yeah, I’m just happy I’m making juice. And happy I made overnight oats too.

Half a smashed banana, 1/2 cup of rolled oats, a scoop of almond butter and some unsweetened cocoa powder and unsweetened chocolate almond milk soaked for a couple hours and topped with sliced banana right before eating.

I kind of wish something would have happened to my shoes on the way to store to get a cucumber. Like I fell and my shoes slipped off and tumbled into the gutter and were unreachable. Or maybe my overnight oats could have slipped from my hand and covered my sneakers in chocolate oat goodness. But alas, neither of these things happens and I have no fun “karma’s a bitch” way to tie the two parts of this post together – wouldn’t that be perfect though? Unfortunately I can’t make this stuff up.