This weekend Jenia, Steve, my cousin Steve and I went to St. Petersburg, FL for a beautiful wedding. We had a lot of fun, but if St. Petersburg was to have just about 10 more inches of rainfall a year, I think the city would be underwater. The bridge we took to get there was terrifying, I thought at any moment the waves on the tough side would knock the Ravioli (Rav 4) into the harsh Gulf.
I have a new kid in class that started today, his main goal in life is to take off his shoes. That puts the grand total of children in my class obsessed with feet, shoelaces, and sneakers to 4.
If you've never had to be routinely interupted by yelling at a child for taking off his shoes, and constantly putting it back on his feet and retying the dirty laces or linty velcro, you can't really understand the frustration.