Pink Boots

The Pink Boots
Most of you weren't aware but a very cool thing has been happening in our home since January. It finally culminated this last Saturday in Shelby purchasing, with her own money, a pair of pink cowgirl boots.
Shelby came home sometime in January and was determined to get a pair of 'red' boots. Usually she will want something and perseverate on it for maybe even a day or two and then forget it. This was different. Shelby was serious. She wanted red boots and nothing was going to stop her. So, I made an appointment with her to take her to the local western wear store. This wasn't easy for me by the way ;) Shelby picked out some snazzy red boots and we priced them so she knew how much she would have to earn.
We went home and drew up a list of jobs she could do to earn the money. She needed to earn quite a lot so she even called her Aunt Raquel to ask if she had any jobs she could do. Well, it took her nearly 4 months to do it but after a couple of lulls where I wasn't sure if she had given up or not, she finally finished off enough jobs to earn the money. She was sooooo excited. It was driving us crazy. Mom made an appointment with Shelby to go purchase the boots, (one trip to the western store per year is all I could handle) and Shelby came home with the pink boots you see here. I guess she decided she liked pink better once she got there. Or maybe it was because they were cheaper and she would have some money left over!
I am so proud of her. She learned some huge lessons by going through this. And, she worked very hard. The jobs we gave her were not easy ones. She really EARNED these boots.