Baby Shoes

Yesterday we continued to clean out our basement. We opened up the window seat boxes that contained years of memories. Things that were stored there thirty years ago and forgotten about. We removed everything and started to sort things out. I found my children's baby shoes. Their first walking shoes. They were safely placed in their original Stride Rite boxes. I never bronzed them like other people did, but I kept them as keepsakes. I then realized that babies do not get traditional "first shoes" anymore. There is no trip to Stride Rite where the baby sits on your lap and an old man ties the shoes onto their feet and pinches the toes to make sure they fit well. Moms today go into their favorite children's' store and buy various stylish shoes. By the time my grandchildren were one year old they had more shoes than I did. I placed the baby shoes back in the box and put them in my closet. I will never lose them again.