fashion | Lessons from my daughter

I really enjoy how Facebook status update sometimes remind me of situations that happened years ago.

Yesterday, someone asked if our child with cri du chat syndrome flap their hands/arms.

🙂

Most parents who have answered so far say yes.

I said yes!

Emily flapped out of excitement but also sometimes had some uncontrolled arm movements.

I wear glasses…

I stopped counting long time ago how many times my glasses went flying across the room.

She never meant to do it, it just happened.

When a $800 or more pair of prescription glasses go flying off your face, 2 things happen.

1st Your nose hurt.
2nd You are hoping the glasses are not scratched too bad.

At some point, I discovered I could order online prescription glasses.

And this is my collection now.

I did my homework before ordering.

I got a detailed prescription and measured everything I could.

I order from : http://www.zennioptical.com

I have never been disappointed.

Here is the life lesson for today.

When your child wants to destroy your glasses, you can
a) Avoid your kid
or…
B) You can find a place where you can order 5 pair of glasses for $100. 🙂

Thank you Emily for my glasses!

This morning, as per most mornings, I helped Emily picked her outfit.

We picked jeans with some holes in them, her pink M&M I love NYC t-shirt and a lime green hoodie.

She looked really cute.

Once ready to go, she grabbed her orange jacket and a yellow & orange scarf.

It was cold out this morning. We had frost on the car and were just slightly above freezing level.

Emily was all set to go except for her footwear.

She was standing in front of her shoe rack, looking at her wedges but not doing anything.

She’s never worn heels at school. This was a big no-no in middle school. No heels, no fancy boots, no overly cute shoes because they stayed in the hall all day and could easily disappear.

High school is different. Emily gets to wear (all day) whatever shoes she picked in the morning.

So she’s been wearing her fancy boots a lot and really enjoying them.

But this morning, she wanted to wear these:

She got the ok from her back surgeon last spring. She’s done growing and her small curve in her spine hasn’t changed while she was growing so she’s ok.

She loves those shoes but rarely wears them.

When she does wear them its for a short time.

I reminded her about steps at school with no railing and tried to change her mind.

She looked at me and said: “mom, trust me, I can do this!”

That was my cue to stop nagging or worrying.

I raised an independent daughter who wants to make her own decision.

I am really proud of that accomplishment but still tried to change her mind one more time.

I got the look! So I said ok, go for it!

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When I got home tonight, I asked her how was her day.

“My shoes were tiring… Tomorrow I wear flats!”

Thats when the voice inside my head said “mom 1 Emily 0”.

This time the life lesson was for Emily. Heels are pretty but hard to stand on and walk around all day. Flats are perfect for high school.

I am so glad she didn’t break her neck or an ankle to learn this!

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