Shoes

Today's trouble begins with shoes. As I got the boys up for school and had them get ready, Zander discovered that he was missing a shoe. We looked all over downstairs: under the couch, piano, coffee table, kitchen table, in my bedroom, kitchen and bathroom. We looked all over upstairs: in the living room, both bedrooms, and bathroom. In the end, we found it downstairs in a corner under the drapes. However, after all the searching, Zander was 10 minutes late to school, which means I have to go in the office to check him into school. Due to our late start, Connor was not able to watch cartoons before he left for preschool, which put him in a bad mood. What a way to start a day. However, things did normalize throughout the day, until I went to pick up Zander from school. Connor was not in a hurrying mood and did not have his shoes on when we needed to leave to get Zander. I told him to just take his shoes and put them on in the car. Connor insists on opening and closing the car door by himself, but while he was trying to close the door, he smashed his big toe in the door. Of course this was without shoes on his feet. Lucky for us, Connor is one tough boy and was able to "walk it off". Needless to say, today our troubles began with shoes.