A couple Christmas memories

While the snow flakes are still flying outside I've decided to finish a couple winter posts on this silly blog...

The kids are getting big enough that I prefer their help on some of their Christmas gifts. Both were happy to opine on what clothes they would like. Marin was quite giddy to have a "shopping spree" with mom. With graduate school having been the focus of our lives for so long she was pretty entertained by finally having some money towards clothes. She has proven to be an attentive and efficient shopper, knowing what she wants and what I will agree to. It takes minutes rather than hours and is strangely pleasant.

Gabe was a bit more interesting. He does but he doesn't care what he wears. It's odd to me. At age 8 he is strangely in tune with his own sense of fashion and makes combinations that are striking and handsome but he does it in a way that seems so nonchalant.

This year he asked for trashy pants. Really. Those were his words: trashy pants. Huh?

Everyone (you know, the all encompassing "everyone") is wearing them. They are relaxed, they do not have to have a zipper, they look beat up, and you can play in them and not care if they get dirty. Trash pants. I also received that look...the one from the side of their face with one eye brow raised that says, "Duh, Mom. Don't you know anything?"

Obviously not.

We were in The Children's Place store.  I found a gorgeous pair of toffee colored cords...they were worn on the thighs and around the knees...jeans like style but frayed around the edges. DING! The hottest looking trashy pants I have ever seen! The resulting conversation was something like this, "Hey, Gabe. I kind of like these pants but they look pretty beat up. In fact they look like someone ran over then with their car. They're too messed up but do you like the style?" Gabe: "Those are perfect trashy pants, Mom! I LOVE them!"

HA HA HA HA HA!

I rock. I bought the hottest looking cords for the 8 year old under the guise of their trashiness. I still have it.....

Both kids walked away with excellent additions to their wardrobes that fit their own sense of style. I love these kids!