Thanks to the outlet, Lillian's wasn't full price.

I must move to the PNW before Ellie gets too big! (Actually this is the plan.)

Sometimes mix and match-able, but generally this shirt goes with these bottoms

I can get so neurotic about Ellie's clothes from Gymboree for this exact reason. Yes, the shirt with the seahorse might look just fine with tan shorts, but WHAT ABOUT THE SEAHORSE SHORTS???

(Can you tell that I care about 1000 times more what Ellie wears than what I wear?)

My knit gauchos were my painting pants all weekend. They are hereby ruined and will never be seen by the general public again.

One down, two to go.

I love mix-matchy clothes on little kids. Especially little girls. Where it looks like they put on their Very Favorite pieces of clothing darn the consequences. It is super sugar.

Aimee, I will stand beside you in the fight for the fashionableness of gauchos! Today we will ride together in flowy comfort!

Some of Annabel's clothes started out as outfits, but she doesn't like to wear them that way. Mostly, she has separates, and her shirts include a good assortment of Mariners tees and several from Threadless (Godzilla hitching a ride to Tokyo, a cookie holding hands with a carton of milk and saying, "I love you!" etc.).

Oh well Cambridge can still be pretty snooty. My old flatmate was from Leeds, and she got quite a few comments during her time at Cambridge about Northerners.

Wrod! My friend from Manchester got some serious grief at Oxford for not being from The Right Kind Of School.

...meanwhile, I am somewhat pissed, and it's a school night, and it's half past midnight. But rather than go straight to bed, I made myself a bac on / creamcheese/ mancogochutney sandwich, on the rpin iciple that food fights alcoohl.

Oh fuck .. Bad typing fairies ahve stolen my ability to type.l

All is badness.

Please let there not be a hangover itn the morning. Pleasepleaseplease.

(spent the evening on the Kao San road, having yummy Italian food in a fabulous [l;ace called "it's happened to be a closet" (including the apostrophe), which is basically a lovely lovely lvoely Thai house, all gorgeous and like a quirky boutique - except it's also a restaurant. There's atble in the kitchen bit and a table in the downstairs bit and a couple of wee tables where you go in, but you can also just sit down and have a foot rub and drikn tea and eat yummy pastries from the planet decadence. Yum. So that was nice

. But then we went to the bar, and there was vodka. And now my head goes boom.

...

...

is sad

And in the morning, do I have PEor Thai or other opportunity to be hungover? No. No, I have numeracy followed by Literacy, then phonics then something else. spelling test, maybe. Anyway - not things one can dial in. Grr. At least there's swimming all afternoon,

And so to bed.

As long as Lillian's things don't actively clash, I'm good.

It's a pain trying to weed out the too-short pants, though. I swear, half the time we dress her, she winds up in high waters.

I love mix-matchy clothes on little kids. Especially little girls. Where it looks like they put on their Very Favorite pieces of clothing darn the consequences. It is super sugar.

when I was a kid, I CONSTANTLY tried to wear a red plaid skirt with a rainbow striped top. I reasoned that there was red in the top and therefore it matched. Mom disagreed and wouldn't let me wear it. I was SO ahead of my time.

In 5th grade, my favorite outfit was a pair of jeans, a green hoodie sweater with a white stripe and purple striped socks. I liked the stripes until my "friends" made fun of me. I just wasn't into Guess! and Esprit in 5th grade, but the green-sweater incident made me catch up in a hurry.

I never really wanted ruffles either. I think when I was a little kid I told my mom "I can't wear that. It's got too much *stuff* on it. Although it's fun to play goth sometimes and go the other direction. I have more fun with clothes now as an adultbecause I don't feel commited to one look. But maybe I don't have much of a style.