So, like every other Sunday Jason and I tell the kids to get ready and make sure they have everything they need. We tell Josh and Averie several times to get their shoes. VERY often Josh either cannot find his church sandals or doesn't say he can't find them until we are actually in the car. Up until this point we have allowed him to run back in and find them. This time he located one under one of the seats in the van, but couldn't find the other one. Of course we were all in the car ready to back out. So I made an executive decision and told him, "you are going with one shoe or no shoes". Off to church we go and he is searching high and low for the other sandal that I KNOW is in the van somewhere. We get out of the car and we go in and he goes in with only one shoe! He felt lucky that his pants were long so he could hide his other shoeless foot. I should have had him wear his other pants that weren't so long! On my quest to teach him a lesson in being more prepared, he says after church, "I wasn't embarrassed at all! Noone asked me about my other shoe, except Nathan Wilson that said, 'eeewww! Stinky!'"
There is a nursery tale that we used to sing all the time when Sydney and Kallie were young that reminded me of Josh. Can you guess what it is? It goes like this:
Deedle, deedle dumpling, my son John
Went to school with his stockings on
One shoe off and one shoe on
Deedle, deedle dumpling, my son John!
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After years of intense therapy, the pyschiatrist traced all Josh's problems to the day his parents made him face the world in humiliation as the one shoed boy.
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