Mother-Daughter Projects

The girls and I recently tackled some long needed "to-do" projects.

Starting with Paige. She and I completely cleaned and organized her room. It ended with two big bags of trash. It seems like all the popular toys for kids are mini, like Polly Pockets, Littlest Pet Shop, etc. We were buried in tiny pieces of toys and junk. It took a couple of hours but we finally finished. Even better, Paige really appreciated the results and worked very hard the whole time. In fact, she is so happy with her new room, she has been spending hours up there playing all by herself, but has reassured me she is not making a mess!

Ashley's project was a little different (but believe me her room is also on the project list.) Yesterday, I checked her out of school an hour early and we went shopping for a swimsuit and shoes. Thanks to Ashley I had a totally new experience when it came to swimsuit shopping---not being able to find a good fitting swimsuit because you are too skinny. Trouble finding a swimsuit, every woman knows about that, but being too skinny? THAT WAS TOTALLY NEW TO ME. In fact, I am pretty sure that I will only have to deal with it vicariously through Ashley. She was a little frustrated, but I told her to take my word for it, you could have a worse problem. Obviously, you can't wear a baggy swimsuit but in order to find one tight enough, she was having to go down two clothing sizes, which puts her close to wearing the same size swimsuit as Paige. Of course, this didn't work because then it was too short or skimpy. In the end, we found a tankini at Justice that isn't perfect, but I'll just feed her donuts for breakfast for the next few weeks. As for the shoes, no luck. We will have to go out again. The girl's feet are huge, we are definitely shopping in the women's dept. She also has the longest freaky toes but once again very narrow feet, making a good fit difficult. I miss the days, I could just pick things out myself without needing her to try things on.

P.S. in case you were feeling like Paige got a raw deal, she's the one who ended up getting some new summer shoes :)