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Thursday, October 27, 2011

A Modest Halloween

I started doing my preschool student teaching.  It has been fun so far.  It has been easy to come up with lessons because we are nearing Halloween.  The kids love this stuff.  Today the kids are wearing their Halloween costumes and we are doing a parade.  I am required to wear a costume because I will be leading them.  I haven't been too excited about it. 

A couple years ago I purchased a cheap $7 costume at Walmart.  It's a basic tee with cheetah print on it and it came with some matching cat ears.  When I learned that I would be dressing up I was glad to have it.  When I went to get it, I couldn't find it.  Ahh!  So I headed to Target to get some sort of costume.  I was shell shocked.  First of all, the cheapest, cheap-looking polyester costume for women was $30.  Second, all those cheap-looking polyester costumes were too short and too low-cut.  These costumes were completely inappropriate for anyone to wear under any circumstances.  Halloween is for the kids to dress up all cute and for the women to have an excuse to show off, well, everything.  What a great example to set, right?  I thought, "If I showed up in one of these I would be asked to leave preschool and ne'er return."  (I totally just said ne'er with a pirate accent in my head).

Needless to say I came home annoyed and frustrated.  I explained my predicament to my husband along with my opinions about women's costumes.  (Poor guy).  When I was finished he told me he knew where my costume was.  We went to the garage, he pulled down a box, and there it was in all it's modest glory.