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Shopping in a snow storm

So in the midst of the first snow storm of the year, I took Ixy to get a dress for the winter formal. We started at Dancing Crane where we found a great dress for church but it isn't quite right for a formal dance. It was back out into the snow and ice where everyone was driving like they forgot that it snows in Utah in the winter. For heavens sake people, it's snowing and there is ice, it happens every year, slow down and increase the distance between you and the car in front. Slow down does not mean 3 miles an hour though. If you're going that slow, replace the tires or let someone else drive. After taking an hour to go 10 miles, we found the perfect dress at Frenze Bridal. It’s a purple sheath with cap sleeves that shimmers to blue when she moves. We found the perfect shoes (they light up when she steps down.) Friday she’ll have the alterations done (she's short like her mom). I’m finding it fun to shop for these things that would have been a nightmare to shop for with my mom. I thought about what it would have been like to be in the shop with my mom, and shivered. Ixy caught the movement and asked what was wrong. I answered, I just thought of what it would have been like to be here with Grandma. She recoiled and responded with a shudder of her own. "Don't do that, Mom. It will give me nightmares now." My mom would have lost it because I let her try on strapless gowns and some with spaghetti straps. I actually really liked a black strapless dress but she felt uncomfortable with it. So I'm glad she found one with sleeves (and showing no cleavage with which she is comfortable). I do hope that as she gets older, she becomes more comfortable with the fact that she is gifted with a nice bust. There are girls her age who have surgery to reach that D cup she despises. I do hope that she has clothes in college next year that will show a little cleavage or at least hint at it. She tells me that she worries about guys looking down her shirt since she's short. I can see her point. I also wonder where she got so uptight since it didn't come from me or her dad for sure.
I set a hair appointment for her and I’m so hoping that she has fun at the dance. I do find it appropriate that my little dragon’s first date is with a Gryphon (Griffin). She met him in social dance class. The first thing she checked in all the shoes she tried on was that she could waltz in them. She says she’s not too worried about having to swing dance in the dress since Griff wasn’t in the swing club but she is really hoping to waltz with him.

posted by Shondratasha @ 13:25