Strong in Your Skin and Mismatched Clothes

Children teach us some great lessons, when we let them. Like the other day...

We were getting ready to go out - to a "dress up" type of affair. My 8 year old, Erin, came down in an outfit that challenged every lesson I had in my youth about assembling outfits for "dressy occasions."

I learned: "You don't wear white after Labor Day." "You don't wear brown with black...," and "You don't wear plaid with leopard print (okay...so they didn't have leopard print when I was a kid, unless you were a leopard...but you get the jist)!

So here was my darling daughter, always a "fashionista," wearing a brown shirt with pale blue trim and accents, a black skirt made of lace and velour, and hot pink, plaid, wool ankle boots! It did make a statement! Mine went like this, "You sure you want to wear that?!"

"Yes!" she confidently assured me. "I look good," self confidence oozing right off of her!

I watched her intently for a few seconds, her individual style of dress was not new...it's just that I was thinking about where we were going...more seconds passed...about what others would think...more seconds passed....about what my Mom had taught me...and I responded...

"If you think you look good; I think you look good!"

The ensemble was a huge hit!

If only I could be that strong in my own skin and (what I perceive as) mismatched clothes!