“I don’t have any clean shorts to wear,” Anna says, holding back her tears as she walks into the living room, holding the shirt she picked out to wear for the day.

Like a knife in my heart, this is one of the times of the day when my motherly instincts collide with my lack of housekeeping abilities.

I’m not a good mother.
My children don’t have enough clean clothes.
What am I teaching my girls about being a mother when I can’t keep clean clothes in their drawers?

I send her back to her room to find something else to wear, maybe a dress or the jean shorts she wore yesterday. I head to the laundry room to dig through the clean clothes pile that accumulates while I re-evaluate my life choices.

She’s disappointed in me.
They see my laziness in their empty drawers.

Every week, their clothes hamper is washed, dried, and folded by me while the girls’ responsibility is to put their own clothes away. I’ve organized their drawers and taught them what goes where.

So when they come out of their rooms letting me know that they don’t have shorts to wear with their shirts, I can’t help but feel like I’m failing them as a mother.

UNTIL TONIGHT.

Tonight, I thought I’d make up for not having a clean pair of shorts for Anna by putting away some of her clothes that were clean.

This is what I found in her drawer:

Ten.

Pairs.

OF SHORTS.

It turns out, I am a good mother.

I’m just raising my crazy-smart daughter to be an airhead.

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We are frequent Disney World users visitors. I worked there in the late 90′s (or as I like to call it, the skinny days). We’ve been going on and off a lot over the last 13 years that we’ve lived in Orlando.

No matter what your thoughts are regarding the happy happy fake times at Disney, we loves it.

The stalkers observers that we are, we spot the outfits of those around us at the Mouse House. Big families, small families, matching families.

Those families that all dress alike to be able to find one another in a crowd.

THOSE families.

I kind of get the point in doing the matchy-matchy at the Land o’ Happy, but it can go too far.

Here, my dear friends, is the matchy-matchy couple who needs a serious intervention. I’m guessing the mom is the one in the dress.

Oh yes, that’s a surfin’ Mickey pattern.

I can get you one in your size if you need. Just let me know.

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If you’re a regular reader of mine (and who isn’t?), you know I have lovely lady lumps.

Not the Fergie kind, the real kind.

Voluptuous. Curvy. Plus-size. Lumpy.

Whatever words you use for it, I gotta get my clothes from the Big Girl Stores. If I’m not in the Big Girl Stores, I make my fat-ass way over to the “Women’s” section of the stores. Most places have them, but most don’t stock them well unless you favor knit leggins, thin cap-sleeve shirts, and denim vests.

Ladies with lovely lady lumps (LLLs) such as myself will admit to having a hard time finding clothes to fit our frame. And when I say “our frame” I mean 23.8 million different frames. Us fatties have all of our LLLs in different places.

For me, my “problem areas” cover about 90% of me. I do rock some great hair and my fingernails are TO DIE FOR.

To cover my most problematic of areas, I prefer a swing shirt or an empire-waisted top and straight-leg or wide-leg pants.

Examples I found at Sears:

(Note to Sears: I know of NO Plus-Size ladies who tuck in their shirts. NONE. Just for future reference.)

Sharagano Studio Women’s Plus Stripe Novelty Pant
*cough*cough* pssst… They’re only $8.99.
Hooray for Pay Day!

To be honest, I haven’t shopped for my LLL clothes at Sears lately because, let’s be real… The IRS needs their money and Mama is short on it.

But for under $20 for an entire outfit, this lovely lady will be shopping on Pay Day! Sears is has discounted 75-80% OFF original prices on fall and winter apparel. FOR SERIOUS.

If you have LLLs yourself, where do you find your best deals on clothes?
If you’re a skinny-minny (meaning under size 14), what’s your favorite clothing store with the best discounts?

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