Gold Shoes

Back in the day my Mom wore these gold shoes or slippers.  She wore them everywhere and with everything.  I say everything...she would wear nice dress shoes or heels when going to church and what not but around the house, running errands, going to baseball games...the gold shoes were on her feet.  I can remember some of the baseball players on my brother's teams saying, "Mrs. B...you wearing those lucky shoes again?"  And she would!  She would have backups in the closet...boxes and boxes of backups of these gold slippers when a new pair was needed.  When she quit finding them in the stores, she found a catalog to order from. Eventually she couldn't find them anymore and had to settle on something else.  But we all remember Mom and her gold shoes.

A couple years ago, my sister saw some gold shoes and decided she and I needed to get a pair to honor Mom.  We searched and couldn't find the ones she had seen before and eventually found out they were only seasonal and they were TOMS.  Last Christmas Urban Eve had a kiosk out at the mall with these seasonal shoes...silver, black and yes GOLD!  We were on it...and so began our tradition of "Gold Shoe Kind of Days".  It started out that whenever we would get together with Mom's family, we would wear them for Mom to always have a part of her there with us.  In addition to our gold shoes, my sis and I always wear a piece of Mom's jewelry on those days as well.  But there are days when we just feel like its "a gold shoe kind of day" and we'll wear our gold shoes and think of Mom.  She loved those shoes and thought they were the most comfortable things in the world.  Funny how we all have those kinds of shoes or jeans or shirts and if we could, we'd have boxes and boxes of backups. 

Cheers to you Mom!!  Miss you every day!