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Last week while I was visiting my daughter she ask me to help go through her five year old’s clothes to prepare for school shopping.  Going school clothes shopping was always a big deal to my daughter. She is allot more excited than my granddaughter who is just starting kindergarten and has never experienced this tradition. The exercise proceeded like this. Mom sorted the clothes in daughters closet, daughter tried on clothes that were acceptable for school clothes, and grandma hung the acceptable clothes back on hangers. The last step was to match up clothes that could be worn together. After the tedious task was complete, Mom, my daughter had a very saddened look on her face because her daughter didn’t need very many clothes to start school.  She looked like a little girl who had just lost her ice cream scoop from her ice cream cone.  This years school shopping was not going to be as much fun as she had hoped it would be, but the great news, it will also not be as expensive.

This really got me thinking about how this event had come too mean so much to my daughter. (more…)