School Clothes Shopping

I had been looking forward to this day all summer when Lauren and I struck out first thing in the morning to go school clothes shopping for kindergarten. I am sure I was more excited than Lauren, but she did seem excited to go as well. We left first thing after breakfast and broke our day into 3 sections. Shopping, lunch, and shopping. We first hit Kohls, Old Navy, Carter's, and Justice (which I'm so glad was still too big because it was oh so gaudy!). We were successful in finding 2 dresses and 2 pairs of jeans. We headed off to the Arboretum to do a little more shopping and eat. Found a great new hamburger joint, Five Guys and Fries, then finished up finding a cute new outfit (maybe the first day of school outfit??) at Gymboree and a few cute items at the Gap. After a cup of ice cream, we called it a day...or so we thought. I decided since we were just right there, that I would swing into Ann Taylor. Next to it is Saks 5th Avenue and I'd been wanting a certain perfume since I went to Chicago in June. So, we popped into Saks and that is when I created a monster. Lauren saw all the make-up and perfume counters and was in love. It didn't help that all the sales women doted on her, giving her perfume samples and applying pink lipgloss to her. She even got her own little Saks bag to carry all her perfume. She went to school this morning with her perfume on and told her teacher she got it at Saks. Oh boy.