I’m branching outside of my comfort zone. I found a pair of dress shoes that actually don’t hurt very much, and I wore them to school. It was a telling experience about how my kids feel about my old shoes that I wear every day. The little girls were so excited! (Well, really just Betty*.)
Betty: Why are you wearing your heel shoes?
Betty (three minutes later): Where did you buy those heel shoes?
Betty (in a dreamy voice, four minutes later): I can’t wait until I grow up and can wear those heel shoes.
So, for Betty (*not her real name. Who names their kid Betty now? Lloyd came up with that one.) and all the rest of you, here are my heel shoes.
The heartache? Well, since my voice has been shot, I’ve been using some books-on-tape with the preschoolers, and when I was leaving this afternoon I left the tape player going with a group of kids – with instructions to one of the afternoon staff to put in the next story when this one was done. She (the young college girl) said, “Yeah, I tried before and I wasn’t quite sure how you put the tape in?”
Wha??!!! Not knowing how a tape player works?? What is happening? How old am I? Young whippersnappers……