Teenagers are a never ending adventure. Take, for example, the purple dress.
Its thursday evening at 7 pm when my 13 year old daughter wanders into the room to remind me that she is participating in the All County Music Festival this weekend. Reminders are good. I have alot to keep track of. "And what is concert dress?" I ask. "Gee...I don't remember" she replies "let me go find that paper". Papers are good. They help be sure that what I remember is actually correct. As she returns with the all important paper, she informs me that she needs either a long gown or long black skirt, neither of which she owns, for a concert that is less than 48 hours away. Oh goody.
"Get your shoes on" I said. And off to the mall we go. Just what I wanted to do at 7 o'clock on a thursday evening...NOT! Now, you need to understand that even though she is 13, Laura still only wears a girls size 12 or 14 due to her diminutive size. Really - how many 8th graders do YOU know that only weigh 75 pounds? Needless to say, anything we found in a girls size looked, well, like a little girl. Not the way a 13 year old wants to look. We did find a size zero in the teens department that I could have taken in for her but it was $80 and neither of us was very happy with it. So we moved on to store #2 where we found a lovely purple dress that was nothing short of a miracle: it pretty much fit and it was on sale for $39! Woo Hoo!
Saga over? No way! Ten minutes after purchasing the gown, she started "what iffing". What if no one else wears a gown? What if everyone wears black or white? What if I stick out like a sore thumb?
Thinking I was being clever, I then suggested she take the really cute black dress and silver grey shrug we bought for the LAST concert with her, just in case. She liked the idea, but by the next morning was texting me with "so and so is wearing black" and "so and so is wearing black and white". By the time I picked her up from rehearsal she had wound back around to it being OK to wear purple. At this point, I needed a score card.
The day of the concert arrives and she has reverted back to the black and silver outfit. Off she goes at 8am with these clothes in her bag. By noon, the phone was ringing: "Mom, I really want to wear the purple dress, but I need it before 1:15. Can you bring it?" Seriously - I should have sent her entire closet with her!
Well - crazy mom that I am, I grab the purple dress and head out. She did wear the purple dress and looked absolutely beautiful among all the black and white, short skirted outfits in the choir! But she was happy. Whew! Crisis concluded.....for now!
Its thursday evening at 7 pm when my 13 year old daughter wanders into the room to remind me that she is participating in the All County Music Festival this weekend. Reminders are good. I have alot to keep track of. "And what is concert dress?" I ask. "Gee...I don't remember" she replies "let me go find that paper". Papers are good. They help be sure that what I remember is actually correct. As she returns with the all important paper, she informs me that she needs either a long gown or long black skirt, neither of which she owns, for a concert that is less than 48 hours away. Oh goody.
"Get your shoes on" I said. And off to the mall we go. Just what I wanted to do at 7 o'clock on a thursday evening...NOT! Now, you need to understand that even though she is 13, Laura still only wears a girls size 12 or 14 due to her diminutive size. Really - how many 8th graders do YOU know that only weigh 75 pounds? Needless to say, anything we found in a girls size looked, well, like a little girl. Not the way a 13 year old wants to look. We did find a size zero in the teens department that I could have taken in for her but it was $80 and neither of us was very happy with it. So we moved on to store #2 where we found a lovely purple dress that was nothing short of a miracle: it pretty much fit and it was on sale for $39! Woo Hoo!
Saga over? No way! Ten minutes after purchasing the gown, she started "what iffing". What if no one else wears a gown? What if everyone wears black or white? What if I stick out like a sore thumb?
Thinking I was being clever, I then suggested she take the really cute black dress and silver grey shrug we bought for the LAST concert with her, just in case. She liked the idea, but by the next morning was texting me with "so and so is wearing black" and "so and so is wearing black and white". By the time I picked her up from rehearsal she had wound back around to it being OK to wear purple. At this point, I needed a score card.
The day of the concert arrives and she has reverted back to the black and silver outfit. Off she goes at 8am with these clothes in her bag. By noon, the phone was ringing: "Mom, I really want to wear the purple dress, but I need it before 1:15. Can you bring it?" Seriously - I should have sent her entire closet with her!
Well - crazy mom that I am, I grab the purple dress and head out. She did wear the purple dress and looked absolutely beautiful among all the black and white, short skirted outfits in the choir! But she was happy. Whew! Crisis concluded.....for now!
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