Flashback

Since the week has been dragging on for what seems like forever, I have been left with quite a bit of time at work to go online. I think I have been on pretty much every site (that is allowed!) and then some. I pretty much switch back and forth between cnn.com, msn.com, ftrib.com, usatoday.com, msnbc.com, weather.com...etc. So in other words I stay pretty well informed.
Yesterday I was doing my daily rounds of the websites and was on cnn.com for like the 10th time that day and decided to read a story about how PJ pants are all the "rage" right now for students to wear to school. Didn't think the story was real news worthy but I read it anyway out of pure boredom. It just talked about how students are getting lazier and wearing PJ bottoms to school and how people are "concerned." I reluctantly finished the article and had a bad flashback.
There I was in elementary school wear PJ's to school and being the ONLY one! Let's backtrack for a second. At my elementary school we had 'Book and Bag' days were everyone would bring a sleeping bag and a snack and we would lay around all day reading (I can see Lora drooling right now). Well, the day before were were going to have one, a group of girls (myself included) BEGGED our teacher to say it was okay for us to wear our PJ's the next day. It took her awhile, but she finally agreed. Everyone PROMISED they would wear them the next day. I went home and, who knows why, picked out my one piece, pink pair with cats on it to wear the next day. My parents weren't going to let me wear them stating, I could be the only one that wears them. I continued to argue and fight until I think they gave up and let me go to school in my pink cat PJ's. As luck would have it, I was the ONLY one who wore their PJ's. I think I made it worse by wearing a one-piece PJ suit with cats on it. I just remember having an assembly that day and they made me sit in a chair in the middle of the gym while all the other kids sat on the floor.
I guess it had to be a lesson learned. I told my parents about it and of course they starting laughing, also remembering that day as good as I did. I told them I must have been ahead of my time. But I learned two things: Always make your kids take an extra set of clothes when they are "experimenting" and also LISTEN to your parents. I guess they really do know what they are talking about!