Little Operator

We have some weird school assignments here. This one had to be one of the most unusual; but Mariah found it to be one of the best and capitalized on it big time! It was for English class and had something to do with verbs. There was an explanation in there somewhere but it didn't make any sense to me. All I know is it started out that she watned Grammy to take her to the material store and she'd sew a prom dress but a boy would be wearing it. She didn't want to buy a pattern, she wanted to wing it. I explained that would probably stress Grammy out big time, that Mariah probably isn't ready to sew without a pattern, and it would be really expensive to buy a lot of material and patterns - for (and the story unfolds) TWO dresses for 2 different boys by Monday (this was Friday) because she's partnered with another girl and we have the dress assignment - oh, wonderful..... So, I skipped the whole what does a Ms. America fashion show have to do with verbs and cut to the chase of how can I get out of this CHEAPLY and EASILY?!?!

The answer: PLATO'S CLOSET.

The next morning, Mariah and I scooted over there and got 3 cute dresses for about $30. One was a back up dress in case something didn't fit one of the boys. It was way fun shopping while hushing Mariah and avoiding eye contact with other shoppers after Mariah would say "this one is PERFECT for Jack!". And shocker of all shockers.... they all fit Mariah and were actually cute enough for her to wear! She rejected all my attempts to go for hideously funny and only liked ones that she could turn around and wear after the pageant. Hmmm.... Well, she won't be wearing the leopard print one...that one was for Ms. America gags. But still, the orange polka dot and the blue dress had Mariah written ALL OVER them. She even had Grammy make some alterations to the dresses when we got home and sized them to herself. After all, if one of those dresses didn't fit a guy, she had that leopard print dress as a back up.

So, beauty pagent over, verb assignment completed, and it wasn't very painful for me. I think the Orange Polka Dot dress/boy won a prize. And Mariah has 2 new very cute dresses. She says the polka dot one is for her birthday. She also has some future blackmail photos of the boys too. :)