Easter Shopping

I'm not sure when, but at some point I decided life would be so much easier for myself and TTT, if I pre-empted Oma shopping for Easter clothes. So what I decided to do is start at Children's Place and buy every possible Easter dress contender in the girls' sizes, take them home, let the girls try on Oma's top choices, and if there is a winner or a possible winner we keep those dresses and take all the rest back.

This year did not start off so good. First of all, I thought I was being early for shopping for Easter dresses in the beginning of March, but what I discovered was I wasn't. Since Easter is near the end of April and that's the time when stores are selling summer items so yeah Easter sort of got a bum wrap this year. Second, my usually dependable Children's Place decided obviously that Easter wasn't important or maybe their buyer was high because the dresses they had UNIMPRESIVE, not even sure if I would buy any for the girls to wear on any random Sunday to church. And on top of not so great dresses, they had no coordinating outfits for the boys. It's official, their buyer was high. Coordination between the sexes is what CP has going for it above all the other stores, but apparently not this year.

After meeting my disappointment there, I went to TJ Maxx, Ross, Macy's, JCPenney's, and KMart. After returning dresses to JCP, I decided to hop over to Marshall's on the off chance they had something and guess what I found. I found the Easter dress I had just returned to JCP because they didn't have Layla's size and I found the dress for half the price. SCORE!!!!! I quickly swooped up the two dresses in the girls' sizes, then went to look for Jory's outfit.

I placed a call to Oma which led to her saying that she believed Jory had reached the age where he should be wearing suits on Easter and not just pants, shirt, vest, and tie. I looked around and found a suit in his size, but it was dark blue and pinstriped. Uh, yeah nothing screams Easter like dark colors. I diagreed with her new found belief and tried to emphasize how navy is not an Easter color, particularly since she had vetoed Easter dresses for being too dark. As we were talking, I came upon light grey pants, vest, and tie with a pink shirt. The girls and their brother could once again be coordinated, but only if we could convince Oma.

There was no convincing Oma, but we did come up with a compromise. Jory would get the pinstriped suit and the grey and pink outfit to go along with the girls' dresses. A win all around and at a fraction of the cost. Why was I never informed there was a certain age when boys graduated to wearing suits only to church? Don't answer that, it doesn't matter until next Easter. This Easter all that is left is finding shoes. Thank God Oma doesn't have that many options to chose from.