About time...

It has been a rough few days dealing with this server transfer. My site would be there one minute and gone the next!

We finally finished the back to school shopping for the oldest or rather the back to school exchanges. Since he wears a uniform to school the shopping itself is relatively easy but since he is a 12 and growing like a weed it means what fit last week does not fit this week and of course the first store you go to NEVER has the right size.

Part of their uniform is white, green or black polo shirts and generally Old Navy has then perfect green they are looking for which is more like a Pine Green but not a light green. However as we are going through piles and piles of the shirts they have 2 total shirts in all the colors in his size (Mens Small) and the rest, I kid you not, are XXXL. There must have been 200 shirts in all the colors they sell that size. Now perhaps they just sold out of all the other sizes as this is the 3rd week of school here and most of the sizes have been snatched up. However while we were looking at the pants we had the same problem again. Out of all the tan and khaki trousers (not cargos) we found 4 total pairs in his size (26-28). The rest? They all had waists of 44+ and inseams of 26+. For those who do not know what that is it means those pants are for rather short and very rotund people.

We then headed to find shoes for the boys so we headed to Kohls. They had some great sales on the sneakers and we found a pair of New Balance for the youngest right off the bat but when it came to the oldest we were in for a long afternoon. Now he is 12 years old and is wearing a size 11 and a 2E width. We chose Kohls as they do carry New Balance and they are great about having the wider widths (I have 4E feet). It took some digging through the racks and 30 minutes to hunt down a salesman to look in the stock room but we finally found a pair of Reeboks that he liked in his size. Even better was they were on sale for 50% off so we got them for $30!

While we were not out that long it was just enough to make me want to hurry back for my recliner. Having to root through every nook and cranny in the stores to find what we needed took a toll on my back, the constant up and down looking through shelves was more then I anticipated. Of course customer service could have been better at the stores as well. You just don't find good customer service any more and that is a shame. I about had to use a cattleprod to get the kid at Kohls to look in the stockroom for the sizes we needed.