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Help Before I Strangle Myself!

So what’s a mom to do when she has no idea how to tie a tie and the little boys have to be all dressed up for the Christmas pageant??

I could attempt to tie those ties myself. But my efforts, I’m afraid, could lead to a little strangulation. (my own) Or ooooops, I could slip on my knot, and wind up face-first on the guinea pig.  I have tried tying ties many, many times. (At least twice.) And each time I end up so frustrated I find myself cutting the tie into little strips and duct taping it together to make a little knot. Then I super-glue the whole get-up it to my boys’ throats.  The kids hate the glue gun part of my tie-tying travails. And they especially dislike it when I sit back and celebrate my job by chomping down on a mouthful of jelly beans, pointing at them, laughing my head off while their faces turn redder, and redder. “You aren’t choking are you, Guys?”  (This is one of the only ways I get to eat their jelly beans because they are simply unable to eat when they are choking.)

But this year, I got smart.  Really smart.  Besides, we were out of jelly beans.

I donned my Superman suit, lassoed the boys using their new ties, flung them to the couch, and popped open my trusty laptop to YouTube!  Hooray, I knew YouTube could be helpful in a wholesome way one day or another!

In a few seconds of searching, YouTube found a push-button video tutorial on how to tie those ties!  It helps when you have a 9-year-old who idolizes the 14-year-old  and will perch right next to him, emulating his every move.  In about 2 minutes, the boys were all tied up and ready to go.  Voila!

How To Tie a Tie