'Formal'ly Dismissed

I was once under the impression I had it easier because boys were less maintenance when it came to fashion and such...apparently I was not prepared for Daniel. Daniel is my middle son who claims in all confidence that he is quite good looking and on occasion even 'hot'! Not the word a mom wants to hear in reference to her almost 17 year old son. Handsome-yes. Good looking-yes. Cute-ok. Hot-NOT! (Especially when his 14 year old brother comes home and tells me that all the freshman girls in school think he's sooooo hooooottt!) But there is something to be said for God-confidence - he tells me it's not arrogance for him to know that he is made in God's image and every good and perfect thing comes from Him! He does have a point I can't argue with, LOL! We're working on the humility...

OK, so this fine looking young man was voted Jr. Class Homecoming Court attendant (whatever the title is) so he has to dress up to escort the Jr. Princess. Never to be average at anything, Dan decides he wants to wear a bow tie! Not only that but wait for it....she is wearing a deep plum colored cocktail style dress and he wants a bow tie - here it comes.... in LIME GREEN!!!!

His choice is to wear a shirt that matches her dress (which I've only seen on the website - "actual colors may vary" ) black dress pants, a lime bow tie and lime green suspenders! Yeah, I'm sure the local Sears can hook me right up-with the event this Friday! Being the good Mom I am I go to a local Tuxedo rental shop yesterday and there it is - a lime green bow tie available to rent for $5! But along with it is a vest so I'm thinking I can talk him into wearing black pants, black shirt, vest and tie and at least dial it down a notch on the rainbow but up a notch from 'Mork & Mindy'.

So with tape measure in hand and hope in my heart I drive the 25 miles to school (one way) to tell him so that we can order it today! "Oh, it's only Homecoming. I don't want to do all that business" he says. My balloon has burst so I'm afraid to ask what he wants now. "Well, do you want the tie?" I ask tentatively. "Well yeah!" So I ask him what color shirt he is going to wear and tell him the whole idea of black and that it will look much classier, etc. To which he replies....
"Mom, no offense but I don't think that will look good and I don't want to look like a retard!"

Oh....my bad!