Day 8: What My Shoes Did Today
November 9, 2007
I wore these shoes to go on a hay ride.
I love these shoes. They are Clarks and I bought them last year at one of Macy’s one day sales for under $20. The original price was $75. The clearance sticker is still on the inside of the shoe because it makes me THAT much more in love with them every time I see it.
Today these shoes stepped in horse poop. After Miles slipped and fell with one arm of his jacket in the horse poop. I had just finished telling the other mothers that were there that I was so not an animal loving country girl. When I went to pick him up off the ground he tried to touch me with his poop jacket arm and I stepped backward into my own horse poop.
It was disgusting. I gagged and led him by the hood of his jacket back to the bathroom to clean off. It was quite a distance away. I may have said more than once along the walk, “Mommy does love you. She just doesn’t want to TOUCH you. And NO she will not carry you.”
Once in the bathroom I realized that I had poop all over one hand.
Later on in the afternoon I realized that I had poop in my hair.
This evening sitting in my son’s gymnastics studio I realized that the poopy diaper I kept hoping a parent would change was actually my coat.
What has become of me?
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At least you had cute shoes on.
November 9th, 2007 at 12:31 amI smell, I mean feel your pain. I regularly go in search of that terrible curdled milk smell, only to discover that a child has spit up on me without my knowing it. They are sneaky little suckers….They may be spies when they grow up.
November 9th, 2007 at 1:21 amwell, at least it’s good blog.
November 9th, 2007 at 1:28 amSo, was this picture taken before or after the horse poop?
Because that affects the way I feel about them.
November 9th, 2007 at 1:28 amaaw!!
November 9th, 2007 at 1:46 amhorse poop is revolting. there’s always so much of it!
i hope you’ve got rid of the smell!
Those are adorable. I need a new pair of shoes, I’m sure I don’t have nearly enough to do NaShoBloMO or whatever it is. Sorry about the poop. That sucks.
November 9th, 2007 at 2:20 amaww. crap.
November 9th, 2007 at 2:43 amThis post made me laugh so hard my laptop was shaking. Serious hilarity. Thank you for being poopy today.
November 9th, 2007 at 3:07 am“he tried to touch me with his poop jacket arm ”
Best part of a sentence ever written.
November 9th, 2007 at 3:53 amSo, you wondered how much bleach you could sneak into your shampoo without losing all your hair and going blind, didn’t you?
November 9th, 2007 at 6:37 amChris you are really turning into a good little country girl aren’t you?
November 9th, 2007 at 7:47 amAt least you wear cute shoes.
That was great. Love the shoes.
November 9th, 2007 at 9:05 amHopefully you did get all the horse poopy off of everything. Ewww!
Oh my gosh, I just gagged for you.
November 9th, 2007 at 9:07 amThanks for justifying my aversion to hay rides.
November 9th, 2007 at 9:26 amthe shoes totally make it all worth it.
Ick about animal poop of any kind!
November 9th, 2007 at 9:35 amSuch pretty shoes and so much feces discussion, all in one place. We can always count on you to meet ALL our needs, Chris.
November 9th, 2007 at 9:40 amThat’s one terrible good for nothing kind of day! I can totally imagine being the person thinking “Don’t you notice that stinky diaper? Won’t you just go change it?” And then figure out it was me all along. That just sucks.
November 9th, 2007 at 9:50 amOK are you sure it was horse poop? ‘Cause usually horse poop is really clean, (for poop), really not smelly and really easy to remove from whatever manages to step in it or fall on it.
Maybe it was not horse poop at all? And some other kind of poop???
November 9th, 2007 at 9:53 amPoop stories make me laugh. I’m surprised a mom of 7 is phased by poop though!
November 9th, 2007 at 9:56 amThe poop sucketh but man those shoes really rock.
November 9th, 2007 at 10:50 amOkay, I laughed so hard coffee came out of my nose…at least it wasn’t horse poop!
This poop thing is the reason with all those pairs of feet - to never get a dog…I’m just saying….dogs manage to poop more than you can imagine…I have a scrub brush in my house marked - dog poo - beside the basement sink, ick. I need to go wash now.
November 9th, 2007 at 12:18 pmhey, shit happens
November 9th, 2007 at 12:20 pmOh gross. But at least you looked cute, even if you did smell like horse crap.
November 9th, 2007 at 12:20 pmSorry to laugh at your misfortune! Love the shoes and the value though!!
November 9th, 2007 at 12:31 pmYou have one helluva sense of humor. I’m really sorry about all the poop, though. That could ruin just about any day.
November 9th, 2007 at 2:34 pmLove to read your stories, they always make me smile, and in this case laugh loudly! Had a similar poop event at a baseball game, but it was goose poop instead of horse poop. Gross just the same! Your shoes are cute, though.
November 9th, 2007 at 3:26 pmThose are cute!
November 9th, 2007 at 5:31 pmThanks for the laugh stinky.
November 9th, 2007 at 7:03 pmI’m laughing too hard to type……..
November 10th, 2007 at 12:46 pmHA! I would have proceeded to die. Isn’t it strange how disgusting things seem to hide from you when you try to clean them up?
November 13th, 2007 at 11:02 pm