Shoes

Its a new post, but an old experience but I haven't told it yet and it makes me smile.

This happened about 4 days into the new school year. In order for you to truely appreciate this experience you need to know that in the afternoon I have two different sets of students that I only see every other day.

So I received this comment from a student after he had only seen me twice. We were sitting in class I was in the middle of some amazing math lesson (I'm sure) and a little boy shouts out you "why do you always wear the same shoes. You wear those shoes yesterday." I was quite taken back. It takes quite a bit to catch me off guard in class but this did. My first thought was to argue back "no I don't". Then I just had to laugh. For starters he had only seen me twice (and although I didn't wear that same pair of shoes the day before, both days he had been in my class I had in fact worn the same pair of shoes. Didn't realize that was not acceptable :)). Then I also remembered seeing his mom last year. She was wearing this amazing black and white dress with these bright red heels and I remember thinking she looked great, but that I would never wear that to work. Then I saw her again in the afternoon-she was still wearing the same dress but this time she was wearing a pair of lime green heels. :) I told his mom what he had said and she was so embarassed that she actually talked to him about it when they got home. She told me that her son would not be commenting on my shoes or any other piece of clothing anymore. I was a little disapointed, I had thought his comment was kind of funny. Well a few days later, when I was brave enough to wear the shoes again, he again commented on me wearing the same shoes (don't tell his mom). I then told him that it was okay and that I would wear them quite often because I only had about 3 pairs of shoes that I wear to school, to which he replied "well can't you at least wear them in a pattern?" What can I say-they sure took the patterning lesson to heart!

A side note: A few days later this child's mom came to me and said "you know I think we do put a lot of focus on clothing at our home and I never realized it before. My son always picks out his dads tie for work and then this morning before we left for school we were all saying prayer when my son opened his eyes and said-"dad, that is a cool belt". I immediately opened my eyes and said, son we do not comment on clothing when we are in the middle of prayer." Then she said "looks like we have some work to do". :)