My Valentine

Valentine's Day - A time for lovers both young and old. - I LOVE my Valentine - We took a picture but they will email it to us. I will post it later.

We went to the Jonesboro Stake Valentine's Day Dance - for Adults ONLY - We had a blast! It was deocrated with an old fashion 1898 Valentines Theme - The signs were printed like that. We danced the night away!

They had an old fashion ice cream shop - where you made your own banana split how you like it. Dad partook - I was good and did not.

The Valentine Dance had an old time theme - They scrolled pictures of old fashioned Valentines that you cannot get any more. I found a few - Aren't they cute.

A Barber Shop Quartet at the Valentine Dance.

Vickie Wilcox came over to our table and gapped Dad and said she needed him in a Barber Shop Quartet and to come practice once through the song. They rolled out the piano and 5 brothers sang in harmony "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" then all of the rest of us sang it through the next time. They wore the hat in the picture below.

These were some of the decorations - the Hat Dad wore in the Barber Shop Quartet

My Shoes

I love Shoes! I love My shoes! I would say that I have a plethora of shoes to choose from to wear. I have several places of which I store my shoes. One place is very organized as the picture below displays. This is part of a well organized wall of shoes.


Another place that I store my shoes is not quiet as organized because I lack the room to store ALL of my shoes in an organized manner.

On last Wednesday, I decided to find my most comfortable shoes to wear to school. So.. I quickly found a pair and didn't give it much further thought. As I was sitting in my chair talking to the kids in my class - I had crossed my legs. It was THEN that I noticed that I had about a 1 1/2" tear in my shoe. That was 1st period. So.. 2nd period I had crossed the OTHER leg and THEN noticed that I had the same type of tear in my OTHER shoe.

After walking around during my planning period and having to go to various places - my shoe ended up looking like this!! - I was concentrating on my work - by 5th period I crossed my legs and realized that it had gotten much worse! In fact the black rubber was flopping around and one female student said Mrs. Bond is your shoe ripped. I said yes! She said I noticed it because of that black thing flopping around!!

It seems to be some kind of poetic justice for someone like me who loves shoes to totally be humiliated with a sloppy pair of shoes on my feet!! It's not like I didn't have shoes to choose from. But I vaguely remember seeing these shoes with a rip and thought that I would just get them repaired and promptly put them on my shoe rack! Later of course to wear them to School by accident!!!! Funny I am still having a hard time putting them in the trash. Its like parting from a good friend.

Now to make matters worse for my self esteem - I am getting to the point that I cannot wear heels any longer even for a few hours to church! - Last time I wore my cute boots with heels I thought that I wouldn't make it home the balls of my feet hurt so bad. So.... I went out and bought some cute flat soled shoes. I gave away 3 pairs of my cute heeled boots to Katie Brentlinger who is young and cute and can wear them!

Life Sucks sometimes!