Picture day: Or how I’m learning to let go
By Robin Dearing
Pretty much every school-day morning, I ask Margaret, "What do you want to wear today?"
Her answers go something like this:
"Something with long legs."
"Something soft."
"I don't care. You pick."
I'm not exaggerating. She just doesn't care — so long as it's comfortable.
She doesn't like clothes that are tight, stiff or in anyway uncomfortable to her. Other than that, she doesn't care. So I pick out her clothes.
She'll pick out things she wants at the store, but once it's home, she doesn't care anymore.
So I was surprised this week when I asked her what she wanted to wear for school pictures and she said, "My froggie shirt."
I wanted her to wear a nice magenta shirt that had a slight puff to the sleeve and buttons. She wanted to wear a long-sleeved t-shirt with cherries and a frog on it.
Wanna guess what she wore to picture day yesterday?
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