Quick Trick For Floppy Shoes...

With The Wedding comes trying to coordinate outfits for 8 kiddos...

 

That means earlier this month we were on the hunt for black shoes! The big issue is that our children have long narrow feet – good luck finding shoes for them!

Here is a trick we use for Hudson's shoes which flop, flop, flop on his feet!

 

 

It's a trick I learned as a runner called the Butterfly Tie.  Basically, lace up the shoes like normal, but instead of criss-crossing on the last lace holes, go straight from the second hole to the first.  Then criss-cross the laces in the loop this creates. 

 

Can you see it in the above picture? 

 

 Tighten and cinch the laces as needed and then tie as normal.  No more flopping!!! 

 

 It will work on any lace-up shoe!

 

 

Okie dokie...just thought I'd share! 

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by!  Be Refreshed!

 

The Final Countdown...

The Last Week is Finally Here!!!

 

Change the number 13 to 3, and you get the idea of how close we are to Brandon and Lisa's Wedding!

 

So much dreaming, planning, and preparing has gone on these last few months, and the day is almost here:

 

My part has been pretty small, but I do have a couple of little details to coordinate with the Rehearsal Dinner! Like putting together these fun activity books to help keep some kiddos occupied while the adults do their boring stuff!

 

 

Chelsea over at Lovely Indeed created an easy to download template for these!

 

Just thought I'd pop in and say, "Hi!"

 

It's been a busy month...

 

Now we're off to get some purchases, fittings, arrangements done...you know...The Details!!!

 

 

{Stay posted...we've had some home projects underway, as well as a Father's Day Gift!  Oh, and a post about why I don't make such a good friend has been rattling around in my head!}

 

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by!  Be Refreshed!

 

Give Them Roots and Give Them Wings...

You'll remember that one of my favorite sayings is:
"Longest Days, Shortest Years!"

 

Today, I'm remembering one of my other favorites: 
 "Give Them Roots and Give Them Wings!"

 

We spend years doing the day to day task of raising our children.  We dream about the day when we will no longer have to shuttle them from place to place, discipline, clean up after them, analyze each look...sigh...friend.  We plant roots of Christ...family...service...work ethic...financial responsibility...traditions. And then the day arrives.  The day they fly from the nest.

 

Then you wonder if the roots you planted were deep enough.  You consider if the urge for independence will supersede the desire to return now and again.

The small moments are now a memory...

 

Never again will a quick sandwich need to be made because the alarm didn't go off. The questions of "who's sock is this" and "will you be here for dinner" no longer need to be answered.

 

Your heart aches and swells all at the same time!

 

Today our second born "flew the nest".  He is feathering his own nest as he begins the process of preparing to be a husband at the end of May.

 

I have the benefit of the distraction that other children bring to soften the wound.  I am also grateful to know that he is prepared for his journey...(car rides with Dave Ramsey playing didn't hurt)!

 

Tonight I will rock Zion and remember 20 years ago when I rocked another sweet, chubby cheeked boy!  I will breathe in his smell and feel the soft tickle of his breath on my neck...and tears will fall as the tender memories come pouring back through my thoughts!

 

Soar my Brandon boy...soar!