Hey! I’m having a busy weekend, how about you??
I took my daughter out school-clothes-shopping yesterday and wow. It was fun!! She’s 9 now, dontchyaknow, and I can’t just pick something that I think will be cute and say “here, try this on!” Those days are over.
First we went to Gordman’s, where we figured out they really don’t care if 8-10 year olds wear clothes or not. They have about 10 racks of clothing versus the 500+ in every other department. So we trifled through their sparse assortment of “the same shirts with slightly different patterns in 4 different colors”. She loved them.
Me: “Honey look at this one! It’s (different!) PRETTY!”
C: Sqwishes up her nose and quickly shakes her head.
C: Picks (another) pink shirt and says “oooh Mom! I like this one!”
Me: “Oh that’s (the same thing I have in my hand, only this one is blue!) NICE, honey!”
And so it went, blue, then pink, then blue, then pink, and I got her to pick one white shirt (because it had blue stitching on the front). Pants? Dear Lord someone please stop making flare pants. PLEASE. I beg of you. My child hates them, she claims other children hate them, and there is not one. single. straight leg. to. be. found. UGGG. Send a parent on a wild goose chase much?
I finally got her settled into “boot cut”.
Me: “They’re not going to cover up your whole foot honey, I promise you won’t look like you’re floating when you walk!”
C: “MooOOoOOmmm, I don’t LIKE those!”
Me: “Could you just try them on and see if I’m right? I bet I’m right. I’m allllways right!”
C: “Ugggaahhhhh (or whatever that noise was)”
Me: “I promise I won’t make you wear them out of the store. If you hate them, we won’t get them.”
C: “Okay, fine.”
She didn’t mind the legs. She was okay with the legs. But JEEZ, they want a 9 year old to wear hipsters and show their buttcracks, too! WTH is wrong with these designers! She hated them. She kept trying to pull them up to her waist, jumping and twisting and distorting her little body in frustration. We gave up.
She ended up with several very pretty skirts, though!
All in all, between Gordman’s, Kohl’s and Target, we scored her a nice little wardrobe for just half-a-fortune, and I was pleased. 10 shirts, (5 short sleeve, 5 long sleeve) one sweater, 4 skirts, and 6 pair of trou, 1 from last year and we did manage to find some capri’s, slacks (NOT jeans, iew!) and leggings that met my 9-year-old’s criteria.
(And I found a pretty shirt, a pair of capri’s for $11 and a nice pair of jeans for $15! My clothes were cheaper than hers! Neener-neener!)
We shopped for 6 hours, came home and went grocery shopping, came home and I had an allergy attack (to eye shadow no less!), took a benedryl and passed out cold.
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LMAO I am soooooooo glad I have a boy!! They just don’t care 😉
As long as the shirt doesn’t show his baby fat he is ok with it! Hope you are feeling better!
I feel your pain! We tried going this week. Walked out without a thing because “my feeeeet huuurrrrt” and the other one was, “soooo tired.” You see mine loves the flare legs! Our problem is we have the size 8 waist, size 8 legs, but size 10 rear. Junk in the trunk! So we buy the ones that fit the rear, put on a belt and cut and hem 2 inches off the bottom! And now I am school shopping for the both of them. On supplies and school fees we’ve already spent $150.00 (and that doesn’t include our kindergarten monthly payment of $250.00 for all day). Maybe they’ll just have to be naked! Maybe next week! Hugs, clara
How fun!
When my daughter was that age, I worked at Goodwill. She had a walk-in closet FULL of cute stuff, and I shopped while I worked, very convenient!
Hey Lianne, I would love some of your cat art for my blog template but I’m guessing your rates are a teensy bit out of my price range 😕
Oh and 9 yr olds aren’t the only ones who have issues with those stupid low-rider trousers, us 34 yr old ‘fluffy’ types can’t stand them either 🙄 You’d think that when you get to be a size 22 the last thing people are going to want to see is your ass 😯
This just made me thankful I have a 9 year old boy instead of a 9 year old girl. Our shopping trip today consisted of me holding things up, saying “what do you think of this?” and him saying, “that’s fine, I guess. I don’t care.” And “do you like the blue or the tan better?” and him saying…”whatever you like…doesn’t matter to me.” Ah, gender differences so early in life!
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