I was looking on Facebook this evening and I saw a cute Birthday picture of Winter with a big jar of pickles next to her. It made me feel good inside. I remembered her pawpaw said she loved pickles! Studying the photo, I noticed a blue shoe in the background and suddenly my mood turned to dispair. They are everywhere now!
Maybe one or some of my sisters think this is a funny joke, but I am very distraught at the thought of our silly little game being disrupted by imposters. It will never be the same for me.
I know, Diane you could care less and that's ok with me. Maybe I should have taken on your attitude toward the blue shoe, but I loved that shoe. Now it is lost amongst the fakes and it's future is gone forever.
I have been true blue to you blue shoe...
Oh, Susie.... poor Susie. Your post made me laugh and almost made me cry. I'll have to say you made me laugh out loud - really - your words were so heart wrenching and comical at the same time. I wish I could give you the answers to the blue shoe mystery but I can't.... really, I don't have the answers. How about you other imposter pushers? What is the true story of the blue shoe or, in this case, the multiple blue shoes? When I think of all the years i've looked for a duplicate of that darn shoe and could NEVER find even one - now they are multiplying like crazy. Our baby sister has been tramatized by this and it's time someone steps up. What in the hell is going on anyway?
ReplyDeleteWhat is also funny about this post by Susie is that I was just reading our many blogs - starting at the very beginning - and wondering why I didn't have much to say at first and then noticing that Susie hasn't had much to say at all at different times. Then I was getting ready to log off and went back to the very first and saw THE SHOE! I, too, would like some answers and I think Susie, in her frail sickly state, would get strength and healing to know the entire story. Someone?
I love you girlies and I encourage you all to go back and read some of our old blogs. We've really got something special here - really.
We do have something here, not just the blog...
ReplyDeleteWe are special! I love you sisters.
I didn't make the blue shoe multiply, but I know who did. I cannot reveal how it happened because i am sworn to secrecy. I do know it was not done with malice but an act of generosity because the blue shoe in one way represents something that had belonged to Mom and how when we had it in our possession it was a reminder of where it came from. No matter how many shoes there are there can be no fakes when we look at the shoe and are reminded of Mom. Perhaps the silly game we all played (with the exception of Diane) was fun for years but now we can all have one or two or how many there are and remember. - Believe me I have looked in every antique store, flea mall, etc. to no avail to try to find one so I could always have one. I am happy to have my own whether it is fake or not. I have it next to Mom's sweet picture. I laughed too Susie, but yet part of me feels bad that you have been upset by this to the point of despair. I am proud of you being true blue to the blue shoe.
ReplyDeleteBTW a definition for despair is loss of hope and that can't happen in our family.
And....I feel special too because you are my sisters.
I am an ass. The mystery surroundiing this boggles me. I will get out of the way and try to stop whatever fun my kids thought might spice up the "game" for me.
ReplyDeleteI am sorry for any of the despair or disrespect for anyone we may have caused. That was not inteded.
Ok girlies - I read susie's words and thought she was mostly joking so let's not get too serious about this blue shoe thing (of course, Susan, you'll have to clear that one up). There are lots a memories associated with it (now them)and the fun has probably run it's course - unless someone can think of some other way to entertain each other with it (them). Does anyone remember if Mom actually swiped it over the years? I don't think so but I could be wrong. I know Gordon had fun messing with all of us - maybe mostly messed with just me and Susie? I do applaud him for taking the initiative to actually search for duplicates and successfully purchase them - kudos to him, for sure. I'm not sure how your kids are involved, Diane, but I truly don't see any need for apologies. Ok - time to move on, fry other fish, get over it, live and let live, all that crap that we say!
ReplyDeleteLove you all more than any pair of shoes..... speaking of pairs, do we have enough now to make 4 pairs?.......
BTW, it says up there that my post was at 1:20 and it is now 4:21.... what's up with that?
ReplyDeleteAs Liz said... my post was more in fun than anything. Sure I wonder about the real blue shoe, but indeed did not intend for this to get blown out of proportion. If any apologies are at hand it should be mine. I did not want to make anyone feel uncomfortable about this.
ReplyDeletesorry, I love you guys.
and yes, the time zone for our post is out of whack, but I think Diane is the only one to fix it... maybe.
I try to find humor in all situations. I laugh at my dealings with cancer for goodness sake. But I do not have this cavalier feeling about those I love. I read and reread Susie's post and did not and still do not see the joke part. I see pain was caused. Though there was no intent and even still I am nearly confounded by this, I understand how important this is to you Susie.
ReplyDeleteI never said it was a silly game. That is not my style. I just didn't have that going on with Mom and don't even remember talking about it with her. We had many special times and a few good secrets. This just was not one of them.
Two shoes showed up at my house long before I even knew it. No one told me. Not even Bob. When he did, I said hmm, whatever that means. I figured it would all sort out. Then either Bob or I came up with the idea of the shoe going on adventures on towers, to Bermuda, wherever I thought it would be fun. Like Whe I took Mom's ashes to the zoo or to the park with me and the grandkids. Now I wonder if the blue shoe has been abused by my odd sense of humor. Am I really a meany?
I have recalled the two shoes and they will be here and available soon I hope. I truly am sorry as I love and appreciate the love and support I receive from you. Sometimes I feel my needs suck the life out of those I love and i try to keep my relations free and breezy not heavy and with as little angst as possible. I missed the mark this time.
Besides causing any pain and controversary to this, a sad part for me is that a sweet picture of Winter could cause despair. I did not even see the blue shoe in the picture. I was afraid to go back and see but I did. Ben is the least malicious person and most fun loving person I know and he did not mean any harm.
Sorry to keep this going. I felt I owed some kind of explanation though I still have an unsettled lump somewhere in my body. I will let it dissipate and go on with my Live and Let Live philosophy, which I have tried to live since the sixties.
I love you all.
Hmmmmmmm....... this entire conversation reminds me of our differences and also all the wonderful strong things we girls have in common - deep love and care for each other. I wish I could elaborate my feelings in a more meaningful way but I know you girls get it.
ReplyDeleteDiane, your needs suck NOTHING from me!
Love you all.
Lizzie, always searching.
Diane, you suck nothing out of me either. If you have this sucking power please use it on my body - at least certain parts of it. My head is very small so please don't suck anything out of it...especially my pea brain. I am done with the blue shoe business. If it is important to anyone I have the original - I think...That is what Gordon told me, but who knows and at this point who cares. Come and get it if you want it, but leave an impostor for me.
ReplyDeleteI love you all bunches.
Ewww with the sucking talk. That is nastiness. But thanks anyhow.
ReplyDeleteI have one more blog on the blue shoe. I would appreciate any input especially from you Susie as this is an important connection with you and Mom and I just want to do the right thing here.
Love you
Diane, I don't think you or anyone else in our family for that matter could or would purposely try to harm another. I don't hold anyone accountable for any bad feelings I may have had. Everthing is cleared up, I feel much better, and now we can move on. I'm sorry I stirred all this up.
ReplyDeleteI love, love, love you all!