Opinion: First snowfall is coming, but I remain in denial

My mom sent me an email a few days ago reminding me I’d left my son’s winter boots at her house last spring, “in case you were wondering where they were.”
I hadn’t been. If winter boots were something I wanted to think about right now, I might have remembered that when we visited last Easter, my son shed his boots and traded them in for running shoes, and I left them there, thinking they might fit my niece this year.
OK, to be honest, I might not have remembered. I