Audrey

A couple of months ago I got it in me that the girls needed Easter dresses. Forgetting easter sunday was conference weekend and there would be no easter dress wearing anyway, I went ahead and purchased one for a fabulous deal in Audrey's size hoping to be able to coordinate a dress for Izzie later on. Well, that never happened, and I never got around giving Audrey hers because then it just didn't seem fair. Life happened and the entire dress situation was backburnered while the little polka-dotted vision buried itself in the back of my closet.

Fast forward to last Sunday before church. We were in our usual rush - Justin's meetings start early so we have a pretty well polished routine getting ready in the morning. Unfortunately I'm not a great planner so there's not much wiggle room in the schedule and we were approaching the crazy phase just before I herd the crew into their designated seats in the van, when Audrey filed into my room for her hair combing. She looked really down. She kind of sighed and seemed so very sad I finally asked her what the trouble was. She looked up at me with these really big eyes and said, one girl to another, "*Sigh*  Mom, I just don't feel very pretty today."

Done, done and done. Gone with the cotton hand-me-down sundress. A very sweet and altogether adorable little girl pranced out the door to church that day in a sea of taffeta and pink and green polka dots with the biggest grin on her face you've ever seen. Someday we might have to have that talk about "inner beauty", and all that comes with preteen and teen emotional trauma, but how happy was I that today's dilemma could be solved so easily? It will be a long time, though, before I forget that look and voice that said with that big sigh "Mom, I just don't feel very pretty today." Audrey, I know it won't help much at some points in your life, but know I think you're beautiful!