Today was not a good day for clothes in the Hatter house. I had two pair of maternity pants arrive in the mail, which *should* have been a good thing. I was very excited. They were from Old Navy and were identical to the pair that I bought when I was pregnant with Ben that just wore out causing me to need new ones. One was a pair of jeans, and one was a pair of cords. Did I mention that they were identical to my old pair? The pair that fit me perfectly, was completely comfortable, and lovely? You know, identical...like the same size, the same cut, the same everything? Hmmm. Well, apprently Old Navy doesn't know about identical because they don't fit me. Very very very very very frustrating. So now I have to send them back and try and find some other ones. Do you know how many pairs of pants I have in the mean time? One. One pair of pants. One pair of pants that do not fit me perfectly, are not completeley comfortable, and not lovely. This does not make me happy.

You know what else happened today? Ben's shoes broke. His blue shoes which he loves and always wants to wear and just in the past few days learned how to put on by himself. He would be so proud of himself because we could ask him to go get his "blue shoes" and he would and then he could (mostly and usually) cram his little foot down into them, wiggling and stomping until he got it in all the way saying, "I got it, I got it, yay!" They're the kind without laces and today when he was getting dressed it broke. I was actually the one that broke it (so sorry, buddy!) as I was stretching it out so he'd be able to get his foot in. It's not like I was doing anything unnatural to the shoe, I just pulled on it a little bit and the stupid strap that goes across the front pulled right out of the seams.

Do you know how long he'd had the shoes? Hmmm, probably three weeks. They weren't expensive, like $15 from Target so it's not like we can't replace them, but I don't really think that I should have to replace them already!! And tell me, what was the point of "saving money" by buying a knock-off brand of shoe if less than a month into wearing them they fall apart and I have to buy another pair? The correct answer is: no point. There's no point to that and I would have been better off spending $30/35 dollars initially and buying a pair of real shoes that would have lasted. Because now I either have to buy real shoes and have definitely spent too much money between buying the broken shoes and then new shoes or buy cheap shoes again and be irritated that I'm supporting a company that sells cheap crap and risk the shoes breaking again.

Oh, and in the meantime while I debate the finer points of buying toddler shoes, guess how many pairs of shoes Ben has? One pair. He has one pair of shoes (like I have one pair of maternity jeans). And the shoes that he has while they are stylish are slightly too big for him and he can't put on by himself.

And just so he doesn't feel left out...as Andrew was going to bed this evening he realized that he hadn't washed his uniforms over the weekend and so he didn't even have one clean pair of ABUs to wear to work tomorrow. Granted, all that had to happen was that they be thrown into the washing machine and his dear wife agree to stay up and write a blog while waiting to put them in the dryer, but still...

It's a sad bad day for clothes at the Hatter house.