I spent $35.99 on a pair of  shoes today. I haven’t spent that much on shoes in a very long time.

Maybe I really have embraced the frugal, living-on-one-income lifestyle that we have, but I haven’t even missed it. So it was especially strange to spend $35.99 on a pair of shoes that were not for me.

The shoes are for Elizabeth.

Yes. We bought princess crocs. This surprised me on so many levels, including:

1) We usually don’t buy branded things. We don’t buy things with logos or cartoons on it (all things we have like that were gifts or free from a clothing swap).

2) I almost never even buy Elizabeth shoes. Between my very generous mother who has become Elizabeth’s shoe fairy, to my local mom’s group clothing swap, I have gotten away with maybe buying one pair of shoes (resale) and one pair of rain boots (cheap) in the past year for her.

So why did I give in and buy it?  Because Elizabeth fell completely in love with them.

She had already tried on hot pink ones and decided she must have them (throwing them into the cart) and then she discovered these and would not take them off. She walked around the store with them on and we had to hand the cashier the tags and let her wear them out.

I think I bought them because I want her to have things she loves (instead of tons of things). I am so happy she has been showing a preference. She is usually a very easy to please child and is happy with whatever (though admittedly, pink is the preference). It is so neat to see her express her own strong opinions.

Her love of them has been quite a sight to behold. She has worn them the entire day (excepting the hour we had rest time and she failed to fall asleep).

I don’t even regret buying the hot pink ones, too (though at least it was buy one, get one half off).

If she loves them this much we should get our money’s worth out of them. At least, I hope so. I also think I can take more princesses if it makes my little girl this happy.

~Krista