Easter Dresses

Easter Dresses

                Easter is an important holiday, particularly to Christians, people who like to spend time with family, candy-mongers, breakfast people, and people who enjoy hide and seek. For my family, Easter meant delicious brunch at Dardano’s with two neatly dressed boys and five girls in matching (or nearly matching) dresses that my grandma picked out from Joslins. The dresses were lacy and pretty, pale pink or blue with flowers.

                Getting these dresses was one of the highlights of the Easter season, and putting that Easter’s dress on right after hunting for Easter eggs (and sampling a few pieces of candy) was magical! I carried my white tights into my mom’s room where I would watch her put on her panty hose by scrunching each leg into the foot, and then she helped me with mine. The great thing about white tights is they didn’t get runs the way panty hose do! Once Becky and I put on our shiny shoes, I felt like royal sisters who were friends with Shirley Temple.

                My mom wanted to pass this tradition and royal feeling to her granddaughters, so she picked out Easter outfits to send to Kali in Hawaii. When Addie was a couple of months old, she, my mom and I went to Flat Irons Mall and made our way to Children’s Place. It was my first time in Children’s Place shopping for my own daughter, and my little bunny got lots of attention. We looked at pink dresses, black and white dresses, and dresses that came in 3-6 month as well as size 7 (so Kali and Addie could match).

                On Easter morning, Jeff headed off to a baseball game and I pulled on Addie’s little white tights by scrunching them at the feet and pulling them up her chubby little legs. She was adorable in her white dress with pale purple polka dots, matching diaper cover, bonnet, and shiny white shoes. My little Easter baby was ready for brunch!

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                This is Addie’s third Easter, her second without Grammy. This is the second year I picked out a cute outfit that’s not a frilly dress. I’m not sure why, but her black and white checkered skirt and little white shirt with a painted pearl necklace are adorable and will do just fine. Maybe on Mother’s Day she will wear an old Easter dress of Aunt Becky’s.