Quite practical.
Some might even consider me to be too practical.
My teenagers...
NOT practical!
In all fairness I should say my teenage girls are not practical when it comes to fashion.
I was up early this morning as the teens here at home are heading back to school.
By 6:50am I was awake, dressed, contacts in, shoes on, and keys in hand.
I was not alert. (a dangerous time to be driving, I know!)
I was only half aware of my surroundings because
we were halfway to the middle school before I realized my youngest child was not wearing a coat.
And it was cold out!
At least cold for our neck of the woods.
When I asked her where her coat was she said, "I'll be inside. I won't need it."
I asked, "What about the bus ride home?
What if there is a fire drill and you have to stand outside?"
She just said, "Oh mom! I won't be cold."
I arrived back home in time to send the next two daughters out the door. I wished them a good day back to school and told them they looked cute and then let out a bit of a shriek.
#7, the sophomore, was wearing flip-flops.(we called them thongs when I was a kid.)
I asked, "Why are you wearing flip-flops? Its cold outside!"
She looked at me as if I was the idiot and said,
"Oh mom! Shoes don't go with this outfit!"
I will admit my daughters all looked delightfully fashionable this morning.
I don't.
I am practical and dressed for the weather.
They aren't.
Now some people might attribute this to age, to wisdom, or perhaps to just plain ole common sense.
But I think it is worse than that.
I have been practical as long as I can remember.
I was a practical teenager.
I bought my levi's from the mens department because they were cheaper than ladies Levi's and I could buy the inseam length I needed. Women's jeans come in short, regular, or tall.
And why should I pay more for denim because I am a female?
I will always be practical.
And with a little luck (and my continued 'shrieks' on cold winter days)
my daughters will learn to be a bit of both,
fashionable and practical.
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