We survived coronation 09 or prom as it was called back in the day. Boy did I learn a lot from this experience!!! Life lessons...... probably not, but valuable ones indeed. The process started out with shopping for the perfect dress that of course had to be an original. Because according to Madeline Paige getting caught wearing the same dress as another classmate would be punishable by death and death only. All was well, we happen upon a beautiful dress that was definitely in the budget and some what easy to find. That alone should have been my clue that it just couldn't be this easy could it? The following week at school a classmate of Madeline's decided to bring her dress to school to show a friend and low and behold it was OUR dress and wait it gets worse. It was on THE NEW GIRLFRIEND. For those of you that do not live in the teenage world as I do this is Jason's AKA Madeline's once intendeds new gal. Madeline text me from school which by the way is 5 demerits if she gets caught I am sure she weighed the consequences before she pulled it out and determined, that this indeed would count as an emergency wouldn't it?
We decided this time to go a different route and look for a dress at the designer discount places and hopefully find a one of a kind dress. We bought a lovely floor lenght gown that looked fabulous on her. Of course this dress was slightly over the budget(Nelson if you are reading this you can stop now). Several weeks have past by now and all the girls at school started to describe their dresses and the majority of the girls were wearing short dresses. I am thinking great you will stand out isn't that the goal? I guess I am so out of touch with teenagers because Madeline said "No mom the goal is to fit in". So you guessed it, we returned are you keeping up with me? yet another dress. We set out to find the perfect short dress. We found one the Madeline liked I thought it looked to old for her. It did not show the 3 b's which are (boobs,butt,belly) but it was black lace with a pink slip underneath. I thought it was not my choice but if she felt beautiful in it and it did not break the modest rules then that was enough for me.
Now we are days away from the big night and Madeline decides to try on the dress with the new shoes and accessories to see how it all looks. I am unaware she is doing this, All I can hear is sobbing from her room. I ran up there and my sweet baby is in tears. She is not happy with her choice once she got it all on. She was so sweet to me and apologized profusely for not heeding my advice in the dressing room. She was the new girl and with that comes a lot of pressure in such a small school. She did not want the parents at the coronation to look at her in anyway other than pure innocence. And with her choice she felt like that would not be the case. Thank you Jesus for giving me a daughter that truly loves you and wants nothing more than to please you!! As tired as I was I threw on my shoes and we headed out to find yet again another dress. If you are counting we are at # 4. The pictures below show the final selection. She looked absolutely beautiful and had the time of her life. Thank you Jesus for these small trivial trials it sure makes it nice to reflect on them when we are in the pit of a big one.
