Perhaps I should reconsider the flannel lined jeans
November 3, 2006
Yesterday I went for a hike with the kids and our homeschool group. I was so cold I wanted to just cry at the thought of having to be cold for the next five months.
During the winter I am always cold. I keep my hands tucked up inside of my sleeves and ALWAYS wear shoes and socks in the house. Several times an hour I go and stand six inches away from the wood burning stove until my clothing feels like it might burst into flames.
My kids don’t seem to notice the cold at all, luckily, because I don’t think I could handle anymore whining than my own.
NoBloShoeMo: Day 2
Today I am wearing the quintessential mom shoe from LL Bean.
Comfortable, predictable, boring shoes. And I love them more than I really should. I comfort myself by saying that at least I haven’t ventured into buying flannel lined jeans.
(And I feel the need to point out that I am not wearing some sort of straight leg high water jeans. I was trying to hold them up over my shoes so that more than the toe of the shoe was showing.)
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I know the cold feeling all winter. It is horrible!
November 3rd, 2006 at 6:22 pmcome to Texas - we don’t get cold down here!
November 3rd, 2006 at 6:27 pmOh, I hate to be cold! When I lived in New York (and later in Chicago) I wore that silk long underwear. It’s really lovely stuff.
November 3rd, 2006 at 6:37 pmdo you have 30 different pairs of shoes?! that is my question
November 3rd, 2006 at 7:08 pmI WANT flannel lined jeans! And I am a couple states more southern than you (but still FARRRRRRR from the mason dixion! I HATE being cold - in fact you’re lucky I typed this post. My fingers are cold!
November 3rd, 2006 at 8:35 pmBetter than flannel-lined…are the polar fleece lined jeans. You feel like your legs are taking a nice warm nap, all day long. Or something like that.
November 3rd, 2006 at 9:10 pmI want lined jeans for things like the freaking soccer game tomorrow. brrrrr…. I think I’m going to wear leggings under pants.
Your shoes are a much snazzier version of my mom shoe-mocs.
November 3rd, 2006 at 9:16 pmi’m glad you said that about your jeans–i was a bit concerned…but i figured you were too cool to wear those kinds of jeans. speaking of, I’m off to watch “what not to wear…” for my child-free hour before collapsing into bed.
November 3rd, 2006 at 10:07 pmI looked at your shoe picture and for a moment I wondered how my feet got on the screen… I have the same LL shoes and I LOVE THEM! They are my feet’s best friends… They are about the only shoe that is comfortable on my big fat duck feet.
November 3rd, 2006 at 10:37 pmRotf I was wondering about those jeans too… lol
November 3rd, 2006 at 10:51 pmHa!
I was acyually about to write and say
“good Lord! woman, you’re way to young to be wearing “mom jeans” lol
I thought you were wearing the dreaded “tapered leg” jeans.
(straight legs are actually ok….tapered …no no!)
I’m 44 , and I must sing the praises of the straight leg Levi’s 505’s for the woman who has had a kid or3 (or 7) they fit like a dream!!!
November 3rd, 2006 at 10:53 pmthat woould be “actually”
lol
November 3rd, 2006 at 10:54 pmi’m way too old and blind for no spellcheck..:)
The shoes? LOVE THEM and HAVE THEM.
I am repeatedly told they are awful and the husband calls them my ugly shoes.
I have bought two pairs at a time while in freeport,ME filled with the thought that what if the minoins try to destroy themon me?
Husband found the new in box pair on the closet shelf and told me please wear these the others are beat to death…I explained they were the ones for “special” occassions.
like all else LL Bean they take a licking and keep on ticking.
As a fellow North eastern’er..I to feel your pain with the cold..layers layers layers..LL’s silk long johns are a treat i also swear by…people think it is just a long sleeve t under a sweater and only me and LL know the truth!
November 3rd, 2006 at 10:56 pmUm, that’s quite a comment…
Don’t knock flannel-lined jeans till you’ve tried ‘em. Okay, I know they’re nerdy, but so warm! Now I’m thinking hmmm, fleece-lined?
November 3rd, 2006 at 10:59 pmcan I just add that exploited seems a tad insane and might benefit from a flannel lined straight jacket.
November 3rd, 2006 at 11:00 pmYou got the awesome crazy spam comment from White Trash mom’s commenter! He/she’s my new hero.
And I say do the flannel lined pants. It’s sort of Kurt Kobain, no? Kinda?
November 3rd, 2006 at 11:10 pmYou’re wearing “mom shoes” and you expect us to believe that you don’t also have “mom jeans”? I’m going to need further proof, please.
Show. Us. The jeans.
Only cuz you have the most darling figure do I even ask.
November 3rd, 2006 at 11:16 pmI probably would do the flannel lined jean except they’d make my ass look five sizes larger. Which I suppose reveals my own vanity that I would rather be cold
I hated to delete that crazy comment, but it was just too long.
November 3rd, 2006 at 11:18 pmOh. Best long underwear? Cuddl Duds.
BEST. Evahhhhhh.
I wait until it begins to thaw out to buy them on sale and even the sale isn’t really a great thing. They’re rather expensive and I hate that. I need to be warm, damnit.
Warm and wearing cheaper Cuddl Duds.
November 3rd, 2006 at 11:19 pmI was LOOKING for the crazy comment, too! I always miss the good stuff.
Am I the new crazy commentor now that I have three up here?
November 3rd, 2006 at 11:20 pmthey might not be mom jeans, but is that a crease i detect in the right leg?
i like those shoes, they look comfy.
November 4th, 2006 at 4:46 amI’m also freezing… Spring will be here in Mai, that’s 6 months!
Flannel underwear, jeans, jacket and linnen - sounds perfect, if you ask me
November 4th, 2006 at 5:59 amI have learned to live with and accept the fatness of my ass (especially as I can’t see it), so I’d be all over the lined jeans if I could afford them! And when hubby complains about the ugliness of my shoes, I just cover my ears and sing “La la la la!” If he had his way, I’d run around in strappy black heels all year.
The only time my feet get warm in the winter is when I take a bath . . . a few minutes out, even in my LL Bean fleece-lined slippers, and it’s back to coldsville . . . >whimper
November 4th, 2006 at 8:17 amI have almost the exact same shoes–mine are Easy Spirit. Love them. What I like better than jeans are my curdouroys (sp?) They are SO comfortable, and they keep me warm.
November 4th, 2006 at 8:29 amYou should come to California. We start whining when it gets below 55 degrees. We sit out in the sun, nice and warm, wondering how we are going to both pay our rent and eat this month…
November 4th, 2006 at 11:27 amSo glad you explained the jeans. My first thought was, No Way! She can’t wear jeans like those! I know, I’m a snob. But, I love the shoes.
November 4th, 2006 at 2:00 pmFlannel lined jeans are nirvana.
November 4th, 2006 at 4:04 pmThere is a fabric now that defies cold and is ‘incredibly soft’. The quotes are because we discovered the fabric in my grandson’s touch and feel book on the page which says exactly that. It was by far his favorite page. DD found me a top made out of it by a clothing company called World Republic Clothing Co and it is 100 % nylon. It is also in some footies I found at Costco. Then! She found be a throw blanket made of it from The Northwest Company — they use all caps but I didn’t want to shout. And now I am a happy Olympic Peninsula lady. My guy shares the throw during movies because it is very warm and ‘incredibly soft’. Hope you have hot cocoa.
November 4th, 2006 at 4:14 pmI hate being cold, too. I heat up my “wheat bag”, which is basicaly–a bag filled with wheat, every night and take it to bed with me to keep my feet warm. My husband laughs and wonders how it is that I can have cold hands and feet even in a 70 degree house, but I tell him I have circulation issues.
And I really like those comfy mom shoes!
November 4th, 2006 at 8:05 pmI am always cold in the winter. I wear flannel jammies to bed each night with thick thick socks. My husband and I constantly fight over the setting of the thermostat. I like it at 70 and he keeps putting it down to 68. BURRRRRRR!!!!
November 4th, 2006 at 8:51 pmBought my first pair of fleece lined jeans.. and I am so happy and so warm.
November 5th, 2006 at 3:04 amI live in fleecie wear ALL winter. I LOVE winter, but the winds here are hellaciously fierce - and I no likey that so much.
I never thought I would wear such warm clothing as I have over the last few years.
November 6th, 2006 at 4:52 amOh, I detest the cold. Not ideal for life in Pennsylvania.
And thank YOU for clarifying about your jeans. Really, I was scared for a moment. I knew you were way too cool to be wearing tapered (gasp!) jeans, but I really thought you were.
Okay, the earth can continue to orbit the sun now.
November 12th, 2006 at 11:50 am