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11/05/2005 Archived Entry: "around a different town"

So I'm at a mall the other day with the girls. Not a local mall, mind you. Nope, I was rather far away from home at one of the rich malls. Not an upscale mall, I mean rich. The kind of mall where people's outfits cost more than our monthly house payment, and that's just the kids. The kind of mall that has a store that stocks an eight hundred dollar stroller. Makes my gorgeous Graco feel like the Geo Storm of strollers. The kind of mall where the inexpensive kid store is Limited Too. The kind of mall that has Bloomingdales with it's three hundred dollar jeans. I had to explain the "medium brown bag" thing to my kid as we don't rightly have Bloomies out here in the 'burbs.

Anyway, it was quite the experience. We did have a good time at the mall. We had a horrible lunch, unfortunately, but shopping was good. I visited my newly favorite kid clothing store, Naartjie. I found the outfit that I've been dreaming about for two months for Daisy's first birthday. Found a matching head band too. I know, her birthday is 3 months away, but it's perfect. Now I just need her to grow to the right size :) We also stopped into Limited Too for Tabitha and picked up a brown, spangled shrug. We've been eyeing it for a while hoping it would go on sale, but no luck so we bit the bullet and just got it for her. She wore it today over a tank top and I thought it looked good on her.

At one point during our trip, Daisy was plucking at her hair. She has a nervous hand and when she's tired she plucks at stuff, usually her thigh or my shirt but sometimes her hair. All her plucking made her hair look raggedy so I pulled out her rubber band to fix the pony tail. Then the rubber band broke and she was left with a Chicken Little mohawk. I could not allow her to traverse the mall looking as such so we went in search of a head band or hat. No luck at Gap Kids so we tried Baby Style. I found rather cute selections of barrettes so Tabs and I decided which one to buy. The store is apparently aptly named, my baby has style as she has been complimented 4 or 5 times on the barrette since we bought it.

Overall, it was still a mall, it just had a lot of sticker shock for me. But obviously, they did have stores I could shop in or at least browse. It was fun to people watch too. There were more housekeepers there with kids than moms with the kids, seriously. The women were dressed so differently than you see out here. I must say I felt a bit frumpy, but oh well. It's fun going to malls like that because they do have the coolest stores, that's for sure.

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