Wednesday, 31 March 2010 -- Day 101 (114)

I talked on the first about this month coming in like a lamb, and at the time it seemed like it was. Despite still having two feet of snow on the ground on March 1st, the day was sunny and calm. Well, it may be unprecedented, but March is going out like a lamb too in the truest sense of the word. It was sunny, warm, slightly windy, and no snow! A day for shorts and flip flops and Frisbees. We used to call flip flops, thongs, but I've learned to use the popular slang so as not to confuse or reveal too much of my apparel. The only flip flops I ever owned were the rubber kind where the strap part always broke through the hole. It was so frustrating, especially if you were on your bike w/ the spiky pedals. Mostly I wore tennis shoes or sandals, and I certainly wouldn't have been allowed to wear flip flops on Easter Sunday. Easter Sunday was for white, patent-leather shoes, w/ white lace-top socks, white gloves, white purse, white hat, and a new dress and cape that Mom would make every year. I loved those capes. They were the kind where you put your arms through the holes in the front and then there was some type of button, usually w/ a chain attached to it, to close it. I remember capes in prints and plaids, blues and greens and yellows. I loved those capes so much that when my daughters were younger, I asked Mom to make them each one for Easter. Theirs were red w/ gold buttons, and they loved them just as much as I had, even using them as their Hogwarts capes when the Harry Potter books first came out.

Back to those flip flops. My girls wear them w/ jeans, shorts, skirts, dresses......Kenzie even has a silver-sparkly pair that she's wearing w/ her prom dress. I know Mom would find this incredulous, but then she'd laugh and say something like, "Well, the times they are a-changing." She won't be here for Kenzie's first prom. Mom loved things like that, probably b/c she never got to go to prom when she was in high school. She and Dad did go many years ago when the local high school held a prom for adults. I don't remember all the details, but Mom and Dad had their picture taken. She was wearing the yellow dress she made for herself for my first wedding, only she'd cut it off so it wasn't floor-length. That means it must have been in the mid-to-late-eighties. I know she was tickled to finally get to go to the prom w/ her yellow, arm-band corsage and her yellow, sling-back pumps. She was definitely not wearing flip-flops.