We can wear this to church!

We went to the store today to get you new Mary Janes.  I know, I know. A bit unoriginal, but for the next few years your fashion footwear will suffer while I try to keep it simple enough to pass down to your sisters.   

So off we went to Potomac Mills Mall, the huge uber shopping center that draws in bargain shoppers up and down the east coast.  Normally, we try to avoid the place but since there is a Stride Rite outlet up there we decided to give it a try.  We parked near the end and went into the Nordstroms outlet- right where the men's section meets the dress section.  Grace was helping me try to find a dress for this year's Marine Corps Ball and kept saying, "You could wear this to church, Mom. Ooooh, this one is pretty- you could wear this to church!" 

I found a lovely dress- the fabric and the cut were beautiful. Unfortunately, it hung off parts of me where it should have clung and it clung to parts of me that should never be accented.  I came out of the dressing rooms to see your brave father standing by the accessories department with Grace and Eleanor admiring the surrounding scarves, belts, assorted bling and lots of ladies smiling at them indulgently.  Your dad explained to me later that Grace and Eleanor had entertained themselves by walking through the various skimpy lingerie nearby, holding it up and taking turns saying, "This is so bee you tiful, You could wear this to church."