Homecoming Dresses in June? Why not!

As my children grow up I’m confronted by a lot of different emotions and realizations, but being the caretaker of a teenager, my first teenager, brings about a lot of firsts and some of them both terrify and motivate me all at the same time. Take for instance the fact that my most well-known daughter will be starting her first year of high school next month, or the fact that she’ll have her learner’s permit this time next year, or the fact that in a few short months she’ll be attending her very first high school formal when she attends Homecoming. Those are all such exciting and scary and sensors endangering things that I’m undecided I’m quite ready for, but Drama Teen, wow she’s ready. A few weeks ago DT visited me and said that she’s already been looking at inexpensive homecoming dresses, you can imagine my confusion when in the middle of June she felt forced to tell me she was already dress shopping for a dance that wouldn’t even be happening until early next year, but I took it as a good sign that she was excited enough about homecoming and all of the other “cool” areas of high school that she wasn’t freaking out about becoming a Freshman in just a few short weeks…it’s the tiny advantages I tell ya.

Not wanting to discourage her excitement I asked her to show me a few of her favorite dresses, so today we sat down at the computer and spent a while “window shopping” and bonding over all things frilly, girly and fun. One of the first dress sites we visited was Wishesbridal and I have to admit, they have so many absolutely gorgeous dresses that even I as a soon-to-be bride (don’t get too excited, my husband and i will be renewing our vows in 2015) fell into instantly gets interested. Drama Teen and I have very different styles, she likes wild and different and wants to push the envelope a little more than I, but I was both shocked and excited that she and I agreed upon how beautiful some of the dresses were. One of our favorites was an A-Line/Princess Man Asymmetrical clothe themselves in chiffon, it is amazingly beautiful and was the one dress that we both were instantly drawn to, it’s gorgeous…no? : While scrolling through page after page filled with wonderful colors and exquisite materials, my daughter and I realized that whenever there are so many beautiful things to choose from, it’s not at all times easy to pick just one.

Drama Teen found dress after dress on the Wishesbridal website that she just “had” to have and while she never did manage to narrow her choices down to one (we ended our online window shopping workshop with a list of ten different dresses that she “needed” to have), she did manage to make me feel almost comfortable with knowing that she’s growing up…almost. While I’ll probably never stop being emotional when it comes to my children and I’m positive that the realizations i always come to as they grow up won’t end anytime soon (if), I do know that I’m raising some pretty great kids who never cease to stun me and for that I’m always gracious. Well for that and dresses, because when all else fails, you should definitely go dress shopping!