I’m good at math. I love math. I have an engineering degree if you could not tell by my accent. And it’s also why my grammar is lacking.
If I may do some easy math – it has always been my understanding that if A=B and B=C, then A=C. Yes?
So let’s do the math here…
I bought this fabulous Mini Boden jacket for Eloise last year. She acted like I was killing her slowly that I would make her wear POLKA-DOTS on her body and OMG BROWN AND BLUE together – HOW UGLY can that be. Like, OMG she would die if I made her wear this ugly jacket. So I let her be cold and put the jacket away for a younger sister to wear someday.
Two weeks ago Eloise chose her new backpack and lunchbox from Pottery Barn Teen. It looks like this.
Take a moment.
Yes – it is brown with blue polka-dots. When it arrived I was like “OMG I have seen something just like that somewhere…now where, where might I have seen that…..”
Oh yeah – this backpack and lunchbox you chose LOOKS JUST LIKE THE JACKET I BOUGHT FOR YOU THAT YOU REFUSED TO WEAR!
I ran up the stairs taking them two at a time to fetch the rejected coat still perfectly sealed in plastic and said “LOOK – you now have a backpack and lunchbox to match your new Fall jacket!”
And she replied “OMG I would never wear anything in brown with blue polka-dots. That is so ugly!”
GAH!!!!!!!!
Hahaha. I am currently laughing so hard it is a strain on my childbirth tortured bladder!
I probably shouldn’t though. I have a 3 year old daughter who has already started refusing to wear certain things
Oh don’t hurt yourself…and the bladder control just gets worse.
I don’t know, but all I can say is, this is a moment I am thankful I have boys. Even if they dress like foreign tourists.
I think my girls are attracted to boys who look like foreign tourists.
Send her to Michigan…I’ll set her straight!
Seriously Taylor is giving me the same grief. Her closet rivals any Hollywood chick you can name….yet “she has nothing to wear because her mother never buys her anything good”….tell ya what sister…let’s just make that statement come true and you’ll be BEGGING me to give you your closet back.
Better yet, I’m sending Taylor to Minnesota..you can deal with both of them!
I’ll send you Astrid and I’ll take Taylor.
Well, clearly they are different!
You would wear high heels with beautiful bows, but you wouldn’t go sticking them in your hair, so 80′s all that matchy stuff
The girl cracks me up!
See – you are so right. I should return the jacket.
Kids! I have an engineering mind also, but sadly have found that no equations have yet been discovered that can accurately explain the way kids think…I guess the second law of thermodynamics comes close…it states that things proceed from more order to less order…increasing disorder, that’s what it often seems like when I try to reason with my kids!
Really cute backpack & lunch box that Eloise picked out…and cute matching jacket, too!
It’s the reasoning part that went wrong. Why do I even bother. GAH!
fashion is so complicated!
I cannot figure out little girls.
Also? It might be because YOU chose the jacket.
(for the record, I think the jacket is adorable. Brown and blue SO go together)
Ding Ding Ding – winner winner – I am sure she would have LOVED it if she chose it.
And moments like this make me glad I’m the only girl in the house!
Oh this is so true but if someone from school told her that was the cutest jacket ever before you bought it, she would be wearing it every day.
Okay, I need to pay her best friend to say that.
I am laughing out loud right now. Ohhh girls!
i have to laugh. But only because I have a 2 1/2 year old who already does this and if I don’t laugh? I’ll cry.
I have a funny feeling this is my future. If Abbey says, “I want to wear a dress,” and I hand her a dress, she hates it. Then the next day, when she gets dressed without me in there, she’s wearing that dress. You know, “my favorite”.
If she would have chosen it herself, she probably would have loved it.
The only natural conclusion is that she is out to get you. Watch your back, mama.
It must be the size of the blue dots that’s turning her off. Too funny!
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One is for wearing, one is for carrying, duh! Believe me, w/2 girls I feel your pain. (& for the record, I have an English degree which is why mah math stinks!)
Well duh – I know – she is totally right. Not fair!
At least Eloise is the only fussy one for now, wait until Esther and Astrid start being choosy too! You will have your hands full…
Just the fact that I can’t pick stuff out for them anymore has made me depressed.
ahahahhahahahahah……..
See what you get for having little fashionistas? A whole lot of grief. Some day…when she has a husband and kids of her own, she will look at you and think ‘how in the world did you put up with me’. And even if she doesn’t say so, you will see it in her eyes. ‘Sorry for being a tween jerk Mom’.
Good luck with all girlie stuff! I will be taking notes for when mine are old enough to give me hell.
LOL – very true. She knows what she likes – now to get her to earn the money to buy it all! lol
What?!?! Oh, I bet you want to rip your hair out!! I totally would. And this really makes me not look forward to Kate (well, Maddie will probably be the bigger fashion critic) getting older.
I like the jacket & how it all matches! Now, my 9 yr old would probably wear it but my 11…almost 12 yr old wouldn’t be caught dead in any of it.
Kids are strange little creatures that’s for sure!
I, also, have an engineering degree – your equation fails to take entropy into account.
If A = B, and B = C, but there is a kid involved with B then A != C on most Wednesdays and whenever it’s sunny out.
Eloise is so funny:) I laughed out loud!!! Tyler is the same way…must run in the family!!
Oh they are two peas aren’t they?
Bahhahaha… I can hear this debate. Moms can never pick it out, must be the moral to this story!
Yeah that’s pretty ridiculous, they’re almost exactly the same! Silly silly girl =)
I love that you told us to “take a moment.”
Really.
It’s the little things shift a post from good to great.
You, my friend, are great.
(And could you please help my kids with their math homework?)
XO
I will totally do their homework if you will diagram(??) sentences for my kids.
I meant “It’s the little things THAT shift a post…”
(Like all the appropriate words in a sentence, perhaps?)
Stupid comment mistakes.
i think the reason your math(s) was faulty is because it was based on the faulty premise that logic was somehow a part of this equation
Bingo.
Oh good grief! My daughter isn’t quite old enough to be so opinionated about her clothing…but I’m sure we’ll get there soon enough. My 8 year old son did have some serious concerns about his old navy blue backpack looking too “purple” for a third grader though. I caved and got him a green one: )
LOVE the jacket-That is hilarious!
ha! Way too funny!!!!!
Haha! You can’t win with kids. It is an awfully cute coat though.
Bwaahaahaa!! That sounds just like my daughter…can you imagine when they’re 16? Gah!
Oh how I love this!! I don’t get it, but I totally love it! I would be banging my head against the wall.
The next thing that will happen is when her littler sister is old enough to wear it you will here “Hey, that’s MINE” or “I wish I had a coat like that” But I’m totally just guessing!
Hee! Too funny!
Just one more Hee, mmkay?
XO
I’m laughing now. But I fear I may be crying in about six more years.
kids are hilarious.
I do not understand polk a dot fashion
brown and blue is the new black and gray..did you tell her that???
Listen, until I can get Jacob to take off his Santa hat in the middle of the summer, I am a loss at offering advice, but between you, me and the lamp post, that jacket is exactly like those accessories. it’s so cute I wish it would fit me.