Math is Like Me learning How to Tie My Shoes Again!

It's funny I was doing math tonight and I was going over the steps and my mind just keeps going blank. I don't know why, but I sure do wish I had someone here to show me how to do this. That's when I thought back to my mom and her ability to help me understand things clearer by showing me. I can remember when she taught me how to tie my shoes. There we were in front of the marble fireplace at our old house. I was a little girl I think I was around four or five. I remember my mom sitting right in front of me patiently guiding the loops through the loops over and over again. She would pause before she pulled them tighter to create the bowtie knot. She would cheer me on saying "That's it, Cassie!". I would look up fustrated because my little mind could not comprehend how in the heck she was holding onto those two loops in her hand and wrapping them around eachother. I would get so aggrevated I would have to stop and take a break and try again after she pepped me up for one more round. Even though she knew I was at my witt's end, she was still determined that I was going to learn how to tie my shoes before I got up from that floor. I thought of that tonight because I was going over my math and I got fustrated. So I decided to take a break! The only time I recalled being this fustrated was when I was learning how to tie my shoes. It required steps that I had to learn to build up to that final knot. So to me at this moment math is like tying shoes. You can't just sit down and tie them the first time right off the bat. You have to remember every step you take during the process. You can't just give up and throw it down. You have to keep trying until you have that knot. So now that I'm done bloggng I am going to go sit in front of my fieplace wake my mother up at eleven o'clock at night and ask her to come over here and show me how to do these math problems. Like, I am so sure she is going to come over here and do that. LOL But, the thought was nice. So now I am going backover to the couch to stare at those rules so hard I burn holes through the pages!!!! Hopefully, if I keep practicing it will be like tying my shoes! Something that seemed so impossible at one time in my life, became something I do everyday with out a second thought!!!