Ian has a thing with shoes (Shoeless Shaw/ Barefoot Balyo, anybody?! He may or may not have picked up this particular trait from his mother!):
He is the first one to discard them; the first one to lose them; the first to forget about them; the first to have his toes run over by little wheeled vehicles; the first to stub his toes on rocks; the first to have slivers in his foot and the first to step on cactus each spring (thanks for your patient work on that one, Angela!).
It should not, then, have been a surprise when on a recent Sunday we got out of the car at church, only to find that Ian wasn't wearing any shoes...nor did he have any shoes or socks in the car available to him! It had been such a beautiful morning when we'd sent the boys to the car that he'd forgotten all about them. When he stepped out of the car in bare feet and responded to our question of "where are your shoes, Ian?" with an "I don't know?!" Scott and I just looked at each other and started laughing.
We were a little embarrassed about the no shoes, but that wasn't the extent of it! Apparently Isaac was wearing Ian's khaki pants as waders and Ian was wearing Isaac's khaki pants as Jr. high fashion. We sheepishly took our entourage into the church and began explaining what had happened to Ian's Sunday School teacher, Mrs. Sudlow, when we looked down at her feet and had to laugh... because of all things and of all days, she was shoeless as well! Her only comment was..."You know, the Bible does tell us to remove our shoes when we are standing on Holy ground!"
Aren't you thankful that our Creator God has a sense of humor!
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