The Girls at this pig pen LOVE their shoes

This past weekend, my mother-in-law and I took my 2 daughters shopping with the sole purpose of purchasing Little Sissy's first official pair of shoes as she has started putting together a series of steps and walking will soon be preferred over crawling. 

I really don't know why, but my mother was a big believer in Stride Rite shoes so I have become a fan of Stride Rite shoes.  So we trooped to Stride Rite this past Friday. 

We had many options for her tiny size 5 foot and decided on this cute Mary Jane that was amazingly on sale for $29.99. 

I had not planned on getting shoes for our oldest daughter, but I did know she was in need of new tennis shoes.  I was hoping to get her a cheapo pair for the summer and then a good pair in August before school started; however, since we were at the shoe store, I had the salesman measure her foot.  This would be were the make mom feel guilty part happens.  The tennis shoes she wore into Stride Rite were a size 3 and she walked out in these in a .....

size 4 1/2.  YIKES!!!  I felt horrible.  So needless to say, I didn't think we could walk out of there without a new pair of shoes since her current shoes were 1 1/2 sizes too small.  (Meanwhile, what other almost 2nd grader wears a 4 1/2?)

I thought our shoe shopping adventures were over; however, I couldn't walk through Macy's with out looking at their shoe sale racks.  I hardly ever find anything on the shoe sale rack, but it must have been my lucky day or something like that as these were calling my name.

I can't say I know what I am going to wear with them, but if you ever watch Clinton and Stacy on TLC's What Not To Wear, you know that every woman needs a pop of color somewhere in her wardrobe and I just couldn't pass on a pair of shoes that were over half off.  These shoes were originally $59.00 and I got them for $26.55 which I thought more than justified the means. 

I'm afraid I am passing on my love of shoes to my girls, but there are worse things... right?