Let's try this again shall we?

While I was trying to think of a memory to blog about I remembered during the first chapter of our reading when Mary's grandmother gets angry with Mary's mother for the fact that Mary doesn't yet know how to tie her shoes. This brought me back to the memory of my grandmother teaching me how to tie my shoes.
I remember that she had this wooden block that was shaped and painted to look like a shoe. It had holes in it so that a shoelace could be run through it to make it look like the wooden block was tied.
I remember everyday when I went over to my grandparents house my grandma and I would sit in the kitchen at the non formal-dinner table(which looked like a booth at a restaurant) and practice tying the wooden shoe.
I was still pretty young at this point, though I'm not sure how young, but she had me tying the shoe in a couple weeks time. After I got this task completed it actually took me a little bit of time to apply this knowledge to a real shoe on my foot but I eventually got it down.