When did I lose it?

Over the weekend I decided that I deserved a couple items of clothing for myself for spring. Now keep in mind, I hardly ever shop for myself, and when I do, it is usually not much. I am also unsure of what the style is right now. I want to look nice, but my age nice...you follow me? I have always enjoyed buying skinny clothes in Baylie's size more than buying things for myself. Anyway, I found a cute, or what I thought was cute, black skirt. Nothing exciting, just a black, casual skirt from Old Navy. With it I purchased a casual plain white t-shirt. Saturday night we planned dinner with our friends Galen and Tiffanee, so I decided to wear my new outfit. When my sweet daughter sees me she has a look on her face like what is that woman wearing? I ask her, "Bay does this look ok?" She says "Ummmmm....." any conversation that a teenager starts with the sound ummmm stands for no. "Ummmm, it is very you, I guess it looks fine, I don't know about the white shirt. Oh and the necklace has some white beads, I would never wear white beads with a white shirt. But it's fine." Let me tell you the necklace had 3 white beads the rest were black and silver, apparently the white ones ruined the whole outfit. Then she proceeds to come out with some of her jewelry that would "look way better".

I remember when I was younger and thinking my mom was clueless and I vowed that I would always know what was in style and I would always fit in with my kids. I would always understand them. How does it happen? I am outdated, and I don't want to fit in with that girl or her friends!!!! She is a very good kid, I am so proud of her, but those 13 year olds are from another planet. I hope she knows that when I was a teen, I totally had it going on. I had big bangs, banana clips, and two pairs of matching scrunch socks for every outfit. My blue mascara and my over sized ENUF shirts were to die for!! I would have posted some pictures, but you all know what I'm talking about!! We are the generation that invented cool!

Needless to say, I wore my skirt to dinner and I was self conscious the whole time. Tiffanee is young and always looks to cute. I wondered the whole time what she was thinking about what I was wearing. When we came home, I put on my tennis shoes with my skirt and asked Cam if I looked ok. Without a second thought he said, "Mom you always look hot!" I love that kid. Until he turns 13 and heads off to Mars I am going to just enjoy how normal and sweet he is right now! As for Baylie, I guess I will just keep buying her size, I am going to make Tiffanee go shopping with me and I am gonna get my 'totally rad' back!