This is actually a good time of year to find a dress for a little girl to wear to a funeral; Easter dresses are on sale.
Alex is actually easy, because she refuses to wear anything but dresses and thus has a wide range of options already in her closet. She has two very simple navy blue dresses which, with white tights, will be appropriately somber for the visitation and the funeral without being un-childlike.
Colin is the tricky one to dress. What two-year-old has anything other than play clothes? He even wears T-shirts and cargo pants to church. But I stopped by the thrift store today and found a pair of dress pants (Nordstrom tags still on, creases still ironed in) and a tiny clip-on tie. Shirts were harder to find. I went with a pale blue chambray button-down that matches with the tie, for the service, and a dark-colored plaid button-down that he can wear with khakis for the visitation.
She'd been in poor health for years when she died, and there'd been a series of crises, each of which we were surprised when she pulled through.)
This is what it's been like for us as well. He was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer back in 2004, and we've been poised to lose him ever since. But I do think that this is really the end.
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Alex is actually easy, because she refuses to wear anything but dresses and thus has a wide range of options already in her closet. She has two very simple navy blue dresses which, with white tights, will be appropriately somber for the visitation and the funeral without being un-childlike.
Colin is the tricky one to dress. What two-year-old has anything other than play clothes? He even wears T-shirts and cargo pants to church. But I stopped by the thrift store today and found a pair of dress pants (Nordstrom tags still on, creases still ironed in) and a tiny clip-on tie. Shirts were harder to find. I went with a pale blue chambray button-down that matches with the tie, for the service, and a dark-colored plaid button-down that he can wear with khakis for the visitation.
She'd been in poor health for years when she died, and there'd been a series of crises, each of which we were surprised when she pulled through.)
This is what it's been like for us as well. He was diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer back in 2004, and we've been poised to lose him ever since. But I do think that this is really the end.