This week at school is a themed week. Today is Mixed-Up Monday in which the kids were encouraged to wear mixed-up clothing, meaning regular clothing but in a mixed-up way. Meghan and I split up duties for the week, and this one was one of mine. I took it as a challenge to do the best I could (much like with last year's Crazy Hair Day), with the goal of my kids being the most mixed-up of everyone, even though it isn't an actual competition. But everything is a competition to me. They needed to be able to function at school, so I couldn't go so far as to have them wear pants on their head, for example, but I figured I could do pretty well with turning things inside out and backwards. I chose a pajama top for Joshua and turned it inside out, because the white piece of cloth that's on the inside of kids' embroidered shirts would look blatantly inside out. I also had him wear a pair of his sport pants inside out. For Clara, I found a sweater that had an embroidered pattern that would be obvious that it was reversed, and then I had her wear a pair of jeans both inside out and backward. The resulting look was, in my opinion, pretty darn mixed-up. Meghan dropped off and picked up the kids and reported back to me that no other kids were anywhere close to being as mixed-up as ours. So it's not as if it was a competition, or even that everyone was trying, but I still feel like we went all out. And also, you know, that we won. :)
Monday, February 29, 2016
Mixed-Up Monday
This week at school is a themed week. Today is Mixed-Up Monday in which the kids were encouraged to wear mixed-up clothing, meaning regular clothing but in a mixed-up way. Meghan and I split up duties for the week, and this one was one of mine. I took it as a challenge to do the best I could (much like with last year's Crazy Hair Day), with the goal of my kids being the most mixed-up of everyone, even though it isn't an actual competition. But everything is a competition to me. They needed to be able to function at school, so I couldn't go so far as to have them wear pants on their head, for example, but I figured I could do pretty well with turning things inside out and backwards. I chose a pajama top for Joshua and turned it inside out, because the white piece of cloth that's on the inside of kids' embroidered shirts would look blatantly inside out. I also had him wear a pair of his sport pants inside out. For Clara, I found a sweater that had an embroidered pattern that would be obvious that it was reversed, and then I had her wear a pair of jeans both inside out and backward. The resulting look was, in my opinion, pretty darn mixed-up. Meghan dropped off and picked up the kids and reported back to me that no other kids were anywhere close to being as mixed-up as ours. So it's not as if it was a competition, or even that everyone was trying, but I still feel like we went all out. And also, you know, that we won. :)
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