Do you ever get the wrong mail delivered to your house? We live in a neighborhood with one of those post boxes that has a bunch of slots all together, and sometimes our postal lady slips up and gives us someone else’s pool maintenance equipment catalog or another neighbor’s DirectTV offers.<\/p>\n
This week I accidentally got the elderly neighbor lady’s clothing catalog. Really, I should have walked it over to her house immediately, but I was editing my WIP and time got away from me. It sat on the counter for a day and I was going to get to it, but before I could, my preschool daughter brought it to me on my bed.<\/p>\n
“Let’s read this together, Mommy. We can pick out the cute things.”<\/p>\n
It was full of “cute” things–caftan house dresses, jeans with elastic waists, comfy tunic shirts in loud prints. My daughter LOVED them. She showed me the embroidered\/sequined tops and found the ones she thought were best. It was a cute exercise, really pure, actually. I would’ve looked at them and said, “Whoa. I hope these are not in my near future.” But not this darling–she was able to see the beauty of them all. Bless her heart.<\/p>\n
Until…we flipped to the\u00a0 undergarments page. There we saw ladies’ undergarments in stretch fabrics with weird flower prints. Bras, mostly. My darling’s reaction was immediate and dismissive.<\/p>\n
“We don’t need those.” She turned the page. “They look a lot like zucchinis.”<\/p>\n
Yes, yes they do. And if I hadn’t sat down to read this catalog with her and enjoy the cargo yoga pants’ joys, I would never have known such deep truths. Motherhood is always an education.<\/p>\n
(Just now, as I typed it, I think I realized maybe she meant bikinis.)<\/p>\n\n
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