I think I need help

[twirlgrrl]

I bought Blue a pair of Crocs. His Tevas are getting too small and it's so convenient to have a pair of waterproof slip-ons for him.

The thing is, I really really like them, and I'm thinking I want to get myself a pair. They're SO light and comfy-looking, and I've always been a fan of the Mickey Mouse shape--I have some other shoes with that general profile that are hot and sweaty and heavy, which I know the Crocs would not be. They're cheap, and they're ventilated, and yeah. But I know that they're also a fad whose time has passed, they've moved on into the land of antifashion, and there are even websites devoted to how much people hate them. And as silly as this is, as long as I've lived a fashion-free hippie mom existence, as long as I've been a fat woman and therefore invisible anyway, as diverse and unconcerned with appearance as most of this town is, there is still a tiny part of me that is convinced that I'm supposed to care about how dorky Crocs are. Probably the part of me that was raised on the cusp of Southern California.

What to do?

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[janisfan.livejournal.com]

Our preK won't allow the kids to wear crocs because they find that they don't stay on while playing on the playground and they sometimes are slippery. Just FYI. Personally I love my faux crocs I got at payless.

[twirlgrrl.livejournal.com]

Interesting! Yeah, the day after they arrived, Blue wanted to wear them to daycare and wouldn't take no for an answer. They're still a little long for him and I wasn't sure they would even stay on, so I brought an extra pair of sneakers to daycare, but at the end of the day he still had them on with no problems. Now he will not take them off, ever--he even wants to sleep in them.