Checkmate

I am so tired of Hunter bulldozing through his pairs of shoes. He barely ever ties the laces so they all get shredded at the ends. He always wears them without putting his foot all the way through so the heel goes flat. Basically he is very hard on his shoes. They constantly need replacement in a majorly bad way. When I saw that he had worn a hole in the bottom of one with a month of school left to go, I told him he would have to make due with them. With only a few weeks of school left, I didn't want to buy him a new pair for him to destroy. I like to buy them new shoes when school starts in the fall. Secretly I have been dying to trash them and get him new ones, but planned to wait. Today he came home from school and I noticed him pulling a yellow paper out of his shoe. It was falling apart and all wilted from his sweaty foot. I asked him why he had put a piece of paper inside his shoe. He said because of the hole in the bottom of his shoe, his foot was getting burned on the sidewalk. He went to the nurse and was given a piece of paper to protect his foot from the burning hot pavement as well as some duck tape to add another protective layer to the bottom. 

He called my bluff and now has some new to us shoes (I begged some off my sister that her boy had just grown out of) to wear to school for the last few weeks and to get us through all our camping adventures this summer. Hunter is the only one of my boys that wears shoes to pieces constantly. I'm not sure why he is so rough on them. I used to be able to save shoes and hand them down to the next boy. None of Hunter's shoes have survived to make it to Adam (with the exception of church shoes). I think it's safe to say we got every last penny out of these shoes.

Mother's Day

My family always does a fantastic job of spoiling me on Mother's Day. Trevor made me a yummy breakfast of waffles, sausage & hashbrowns..all very delicious and he even made the waffles from scratch. I was super impressed. He and the boys also cleaned it all up without me having to lift a finger. It was a real treat. Church was enjoyable. We had some excellent speakers in sacrament and it was a great meeting, despite me being told I was giving the closing prayer as I sat down on my bench after church had already started. I had anxiety for the rest of the meeting. I do NOT like being up there. At least I only had to have anxiety for an hour and not for days had I been given proper notice. During third hour, the men took over the women's classes and all the women were able to attend a special relief society meeting that followed with refreshments and visiting afterward. I think it should be a Sunday tradition and not just on Mother's Day! We went to my parent's house for dinner and had a nice evening visiting with family. I am so grateful for the mothers in our lives. They are both the most special women I know and I am so proud to be able to call them both mom! I'm feeling very blessed after such a special day of honoring our mothers and all the ways my family tried to make this day special for me. Life is good.