Aubrey's dress

Last night was Winter Formal at Aubrey's high school.  She had the best dress of all the girls.  We had a hard time finding a dress at the store that covered shoulders and more than 6 inches of thigh.  We finally decided to make a dress.

We found a pattern and I added straps to it.  We replaced the "boring belt" that the pattern called for made of the same dress fabric with a belt we made of a sweet zebra strip remnant.  The dress cost $12.

A lot of other pictures I saw from the dance showed girls wearing not much more than a towel.  Probably a very expensive towel, but that's about all the dress covered.  Sure, people can choose what to wear, but I  am always stunned when parents buy teenage girls "towel dresses," glitter them up, spray them with perfume and send them out with a boy.  Some people probably think I'm a crazy mom because I made my daughter wear a dress that went all the way to her knees and covered her shoulders.

Abram didn't get asked to the dance, but he had a pretty great night that never could have been possible at a dumb old dance.  He and a friend (who is a girl) went to a play in downtown Portland.  What should have been a 20-minute drive took 90 minutes, as he discovered that she is just as directionally-challenged as he.  I sent them with very detailed directions, but somehow they managed to end up 10 miles from downtown.  They called me in a panic, and I was able to guide them to Portland, where they were only 10 minutes late and still got to see the play.  They had the grandest of times.  I didn't know that someone could actually get lost with a navigator and with detailed and correct instructions, but between the two of them they managed to do it.  Luckily they both thought it was hilarious, and made it all the way home after the play without getting lost.