Sewing with Spin

The jumper and bolero came out great and fit Skylar just right. But I hadn’t expected on the first day of school for her to protest wearing it.  “I don’t want to wear that!” It only got worse from there, with her crying and getting very upset. “But I want to wear my Disney Princess shirt”. I promised her she could wear that tomorrow if she’d only just wear this dress today. Just today! “I don’t want to wear a dress! I don’t want to wear that. Get it off me!” She even said her friends would make fun of her. I don’t know where that came from either. I almost cried myself. I don’t think I said that until I was a tween. My Mom always made my clothes and I don’t even think I noticed them. Which now I realize is good and bad. She even protested the cute little pink socks with the ruffle. “I don’t want to wear these wedding socks!” Wedding socks? And the shoes too.  It was getting late and I really wanted to take her picture in the dress.  In most of them you can see she is crying. I let her wear her Disney Princess sneakers.

After all that she enjoyed her first day of school. Her friends reportedly did not make fun of her dress and I really liked the way it looked on her.