Granted, I think I would be afraid of either girl coming downstairs to breakfast dressed as slutty school girl.

For as long as I could remember, I loved shopping for clothes for the new school year.  (Don't even get me started on school supplies. Fresh notebooks and pens..Good Lord.) When I was 16, I began shopping in the July.  There was something fresh and new about getting a new wardrobe for the new school year.  The "holiday" time of year was so exciting that, when I was old enough, I got a summer job just to finance it...a lot of soft serve and blizzards were served to guarantee 12 days of uninterrupted outfits when I was a sophomore.

Now as a mom I feel this unexpected pressure to make sure that Laurel's first day of school's outfit is just right.  I knew it was really messed up when I looked at this outfit of pink capri leggings and and grey polo shirt dress (with a drop waist) and thought it didn't have enough punch so I am off to get a pink accessory.  Are you freakin' kidding me?  She is 6 and starting the first grade. Does she really need beads or an over sized belt?  God damn, I talk a big game but I will go to Target and get that "punch".

Right now, I want school uniforms.  Strike me down...You need to know that when I was in the 10th grade, I bedazzled an outfit that I tie dyed in pink. Self expression was my middle name.  Uniforms kick the shit out of self expression for a student but for a parent, it seems so..so good. Wouldn't uniforms would be easy and, I am assuming, cheaper?  But it is the prior..I am looking for easy..khakis, polos, etc.  No accessories or any brand names that will ravage the Wang bank account later. (Granted, I think I would be afraid of either girl coming downstairs to breakfast dressed as slutty school girl.)

Currently, I am lucky.  What I buy for Laurel, she loves.  There are very few outfits in the morning that she will turn down.  If she does turn it down, the outfit isn't comfortable--the tag could be scratchy or the armpits are just too tight.

Laurel has no anxiety about what to wear for school.  She has no idea what it will be like to have a school clothes budget--back in the day, mine was $250, my friend Sue got $200 while we had a friend who had no limit.  Unless she shops with her dad..he will freakin have no idea.  She will have a better wardrobe at 16 than I do now.  Oh freak me...