Pink

Lately I've been finding balance in my wardrobe. In the past 15 years, I've rarely done multiple outfit changes a day. That was reserved for my college, self because she had lots of energy.

Since having children, I've mostly rocked my yoga clothes all day long unless I had an event to attend. Even then, I frequently just churched-up my stretchy clothes with jewelry. Recently, though, I had a busy day of teaching, followed by Aidan's Band Banquet, and capped-off with Caleb's first concert at a winery. I found myself actually having the gumption to be concerned with my wardrobe not being quite right for me to go from event to event.

I decidedly did not want to wear teacher clothes to Aidan's event (I did, though, because I had a limited wardrobe). I wanted to wear slightly less professional mom clothes that expressed a bit more of my personality. I also neither wanted to wear mom clothes nor teacher clothes to Caleb's event. There, I wanted to wear hot wife clothes. So, motivated by the razzle-dazzle feelings that were inspiring me, I made a wardrobe change between each event. It felt nice.

As I type this, I think about a meme that I've seen making the rounds lately. It shows a faded pink flamingo raising it's baby, and it states that flamingo moms lose their 'pink' while raising babies because so much of their essence is poured into their children. The meme tells the parent reading it that the flamingos eventually get their color back, and parents will one day find their 'pink' again, too.

I suppose my 'pink' is coming back to me.