The whole grad dress shopping…holly cow do they expect you to spend a lot of money or what?!?! I was pretty shocked that the average price for grad dresses was at least $500!!! For grad…wow! I don’t know, maybe I’m just cheap, but it seemed outrageous to me. Also, my daughter is itty bitty, so almost every dress we tried on would require alterations as well, on top of the dress cost, of course. And if you want anything with bead work to be altered, the price just rockets, because each individual bead &/or sequin has to be hand stitched. If we wanted it ordered to size we needed to order it before February. I mean, the last thing I was thinking about in January is running out to buy a grad dress. It’s more like figuring out how to cut things short after Christmas spending. So, it was a very very long day. For someone who does nothing for a living but sit at home feeling like shit, it’s exhausting!! We decided we would all go to the mall. Then my hubby could take our younger 2, plus a friend, to buy hip hop shoes and then to Galaxyland. It was fun for them. But, my son apparently shut down and didn’t want to do anything. So my hubby and him didn’t do much. There are not many rides for little little guys there (he’s 4). He decided that he is afraid of heights, learned from when his big, middle, sister does acrobatics with him. Huh…Initially I wondered how high was she tossing him, but then I thought it’s probably best that I don’t know. Yup…don’t want to know. Anyway, my daughter, after grumbling about how little we were willing to pay, finally found one that she liked. It’s the colour she wanted and one of the 2 styles she had been looking at. It fit her everywhere, except for the length, which will make alterations much more affordable. Also, as I was grumbling about the cost and figuring things out on my phone’s calculator and texting my hubby, she sensed my reluctance and we were given 40% off. It was already discounted, but not that much. At that point, I had had enough. It was $70 over the $200 we had wanted to spend, but seriously, finding what she wanted at the price that we wanted was starting to seem impossible. So, yay!! It is done! And, so am I. I am so so done. I’m grabbing the ice pack and turning out the lights!!
Yay😂😂😂😂😂!!!! Grad dress shopping done!!

Hopefully one day I’ll get it right, or at least have fun, while about it I write!