One Shoe At A Time!
I knew that this day was coming. I knew it the day my son was born and I was counting all of his tiny fingers and toes and playing "this little piggy" with him when he was a baby. I didn't think that it would be this soon though. I thought that it would be a couple more years down the line. I have been thinking about this day though for a while as I watched him get bigger and taller. Mostly taller. And the day finally got here today.
I watched my son eagerly open the package that came this morning with his name on it. He loves getting mail and I watched as his eyes lit up when he realized what was in the package. His brand spanking new blue running shoes. I caught a good sale on Amazon a few days ago and I asked him if he liked them and he said that he did and so I ordered them with some Amazon gift card "cash" I had from Christmas that my friend had given me and some that I earned on the chat about site for 1000 points answering surveys and questions. I knew that sooner or later that he was going to need shoes again. And the sooner came a few days ago when he showed me holes in the bottom of a pair of shoes, his favorite pair. So, only one thing I could do was get some more.
He smiled and tried them on and they fit. He laced them up and walked around the house a bit chomping at the bit to get outside to really test them out as he said. Then he took them off and neatly put them back inside the box they came in. I looked at my feet and noticed something. I look at his shoes and noticed something again. Then I started to wonder. I took the right shoe out of the box and put it on my right foot. It actually fit me. It actually was a little big on my foot too. I knew that this day was bound to come that one day his foot would be as big or bigger then mine. My nephews, two out of three of them anyway, have big feet. Big for me but I guess normal size for a man.
So, I sat there and looked at my foot with the shoe on for a minute or two. I thought how did this happen so soon. At 10 his feet were bigger then mine and he is a mere 4 inches shorter than me now. Time all seemed to just go by so fast. So fast that I wished it would slow down just a little bit. Slow down so I can catch up. But, I know that is not the way it works. Life goes fast sometimes and some times you wish it would go fast when it is going slow. You just have to take it one day at a time, one year at a time and one shoe at a time.
I watched my son eagerly open the package that came this morning with his name on it. He loves getting mail and I watched as his eyes lit up when he realized what was in the package. His brand spanking new blue running shoes. I caught a good sale on Amazon a few days ago and I asked him if he liked them and he said that he did and so I ordered them with some Amazon gift card "cash" I had from Christmas that my friend had given me and some that I earned on the chat about site for 1000 points answering surveys and questions. I knew that sooner or later that he was going to need shoes again. And the sooner came a few days ago when he showed me holes in the bottom of a pair of shoes, his favorite pair. So, only one thing I could do was get some more.
He smiled and tried them on and they fit. He laced them up and walked around the house a bit chomping at the bit to get outside to really test them out as he said. Then he took them off and neatly put them back inside the box they came in. I looked at my feet and noticed something. I look at his shoes and noticed something again. Then I started to wonder. I took the right shoe out of the box and put it on my right foot. It actually fit me. It actually was a little big on my foot too. I knew that this day was bound to come that one day his foot would be as big or bigger then mine. My nephews, two out of three of them anyway, have big feet. Big for me but I guess normal size for a man.
So, I sat there and looked at my foot with the shoe on for a minute or two. I thought how did this happen so soon. At 10 his feet were bigger then mine and he is a mere 4 inches shorter than me now. Time all seemed to just go by so fast. So fast that I wished it would slow down just a little bit. Slow down so I can catch up. But, I know that is not the way it works. Life goes fast sometimes and some times you wish it would go fast when it is going slow. You just have to take it one day at a time, one year at a time and one shoe at a time.
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