Anyone who has known me for a while will tell you that I do not like FEET. Yes, you read it right..I am just not a feet person. I cringe in my skin when I see feet. I am known to meet people for the first time and without any conscience I proceed to check out their feet. According to my mom I would sit in a corner and take my socks off, proceed to clean toe jam with my tiny fingers and then smell them. Sorry if I am making you guys sick but I am sure all of us have some dirty habits and I just happen to share mine.
With my luck, I have been blessed with two girls who have no shame with their feet. Both girls hate wearing socks and if it was up to them, they would run around the yard bare foot. I constantly have to remind them to put their shoes/sandals/flip flops..dammit anything on!
This morning I was giving Kiran a bath and I noticed how dirty her nails were. I pulled out an old toothbrush and proceeded to brush her feet, toes, nails, everything! As you can imagine she was hating this experience but I was determined to get ever toe/finger jam out of there. After ten minutes of complete screaming fest I was content and ready to move on with my day.
It has been almost an hour and in that hour Kiran ran outside in the yard to check up on our vegetables. You guessed it right..she was BAREFOOT! I am back to sqaure one now. All that scrubbing was not even worth it.
As my daughters get older, I am hoping/praying/wishing that they will understand and respect my obsession with feet and proceed to cover them and protect them as necessary.
I have this problem with my kids too! I can't stand having dirt under my fingernails, and I don't run around without something on my feet, but both my kids (yes, my daughter too) don't seem to care. I am constantly telling them to clean their nails and I even bought my daughter her own clipper set in a sweet little case in the hopes that she would start taking care of this. (It works only minimally...oh well.)
ReplyDeleteOh my Susan! I am so glad someone out there can relate to my obsession. I have no idea why dirty nails dont bother these girls. It could be that they are only 4 and 2, LOL! I think its too early for me to present them with a clipper set but that will be something to consider as they get older!
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