My friend Jill is my personal Stacy London of TLC's "What Not To Wear," and what not to wear on this tour is anything in my closet. I told her I had bought the perfect, perfect scarf / shawl thing at the annual downtown art fair and she is making me practice wearing it around the house so I don't look like the babushka bubbe of Borders. I am trying to type with it on right now and I feel like Dracula playing the organ.
Black jeans, black jeans, Jill said, so we headed out to find an inky pair. Jill stood and shook her head and stood and shook her head again while I couldn't believe I was letting her see me in my underpants, a sight unseen by foreign eyes since Millennium Eve, I'm afraid.
We went to too hip stores and unhip stores and finally to the just hip enough store -- Goldilocks at 59 -- where I willingly chose to believe a label that swore I was a size smaller than I am. False advertising, Yay! I bought the jeans, we stopped for coffee, and then I was reminded of the beautiful reason that brought us here at all.
A designated daughter and her mother were coming into the store. The mother entered first, on her cane, while the daughter tried to hold the door and guide her mother at the same time. I looked at the pair with recognition. I did not know them but I knew their hearts. How many times had they come shopping together – for school clothes and play clothes, prom dresses, bridal gowns, for tops and skirts and something suitable to wear to the funerals they'd attend.
This tour is a celebration of them – of them and you and all your mothers – with us still or sadly gone. I will practice with my scarf until I get it right – or not -- but I travel knowing I'm wrapped perfectly in my mother's love.
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Designated Daughter by D.G. Fulford is the next featured book in the Getting Better All the Time Group. It's a story of how a daughter returns the love she experienced her entire life from her mother. To read more about this book and the others in the group, click here.
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Comments: 12
I go to the grocery store once a week or so, and I get my jeans at Kmart. I get most of everything else on-line as I can get the correct size with not many problems.
When I used to go to a store to shop for clothes I was disappointed many times, as what I wanted they didn't have in a size that would fit. Now my size for a shirt is XLT (Extra Large Tall) a fairly common size I think, so now almost all my shopping for clothes, shoes and other stuff is on-line. Love Amazon, and JC Penney's
I am the only daughter - it's tough.
Spare me, please!
I wish I had just one more day with her.
Thank You This is beautiful!