How to Wear New School Clothes

SCHOOL STARTS TUESDAY, and for the first time all three kids will be going! Patrick and Julia begin CM1 and Henry starts his very first day of maternnelle (he'll be going just a couple days a week). Of course, to get ready for the year we had to get some new clothes. Patrick and Julia have reached the age where it's not good enough to simply buy something that fits -- they're now starting to be concerned about whether it is stylish (did we care about that in the 4th grade?) Everyone got a few items that they are happy with so I think we did pretty well.

But the whole 'buyingclothes' thing reminds me of what my brother-in -law John and I used to do in high school (yes, we knew each other in high school). Because we were very smart, we thought it would be a good idea to buy a bunch of new clothes (Generra when possible) but not wear them until the second week! You see, all the other kids would bust out their new threads during the first week of school, forcing them to revert to their old clothes (or--gasp--re-wear the new ones) during the second week. Meanwhile, John and I would strut through the hall on week two wearing all new digs. And, as you have guessed by now, this made us look incredible cool and made the other kids envious. Did we know how to 'do' high school or what?

Oh, we did have one exception to the rule: we could break out the Sperry's during the first week.

I tried to convice P&J to hold off on the new clothes until next week, but no luck. I guess they don't want to be cool.
CJS