Shoes and Sight Word Vocabulary!

In the world of walking with a limp, new shoes are often a big deal. Well, really, it's a painful ordeal. Once shoes are broken in, it's not a big deal. However, getting to the "broken in" stage takes time.

I always buy my shoes at Famous Footwear and for years I've been wearing one brand of tennis shoes because they have served me well. Back in August, I bought two new pairs of the shoes because of the buy 1/get one half-off sale. Same shoe, I just bought two pairs. I started the breaking in process, and it hurt but I figured I would get them broken in and everything would be fine. Over a few days, I got them broken in, but my back started hurting. My back hurts a lot, so that was nothing new. So, up until last night I put up with it. Yesterday at school I was in so much pain, I took my shoes off at school. (We get to wear Jeans everyday this week, so I could wear the tennis shoes everyday this week!) I came home and tried the other pair I had in the closet. They hurt just like the others. So, I took the shoes back to Famous last night, and explained my situation. I knew they didn't have to exchange it, as it was past the 30 days return policy. However, they let me do so! AND I GOT A PAIR OF SHOES THAT DON'T HURT! Woop! Plus, they're blue and their cute! SWEET!

My other cool story for today is SightWordKid. This kid is a SWEETHEART. He's in second grade, and his parents were torn up at Parent/Teacher conferences last week because their son is not progressing in reading. So, after conferences I talked to our reading specialist and told her what was up and that it has been YEARS since I've had a student that was this low. She told me to try a strategy she uses with her students. I tried it yesterday, and today the kid came in AND COULD REMEMBER THE WORDS! I tell ya, I wanted to yell from the rooftops that SightWordKid could read his ten words!!! I took him down to his teacher where he read all the words to her, and his teacher gave him 10 tickets (which is a good thing) in class! I told our reading specialist that it took 9 Weeks and two days, but he got it! I can't wait to see how he does from here!

If you ask me, that's ONE AWESOME DAY!

Shoes that are comfortable AND a kid that can now read his ten sight words!

Life.
Is.
GOOD.