Tying Up Loose Ends

Thanks to the invention of Velcro and slip-on tennis shoes, the urgency for Brenna to learn to tie shoes never became, well, urgent. Sure her kindergarten teacher tried to impress upon her how paramount it was that she learn to tie her own shoes, but it was to no avail. No matter how many shoe shaped cut-outs with yarn laces came home, Brenna had absolutely no interest. But one night last week, she just decided that it was time to learn this important life skill. That's how it is with most things that Brenna learns... always on her own terms.

I'm just so relieved she won't go off to college having to ask her roommate to tie her shoes.