Home Ec Lessons

Tomorrow, Baby Bird will be 10 weeks old. Who can believe it? Julie has just two more weeks of leave which makes her blue when she thinks about it so for now, she's not! But she figured she should at least see what work-appropriate clothes she had that fit so this morning, while the Boys were at Whole Foods, the Birds evaluated Julie's wardrobe. We unpacked some skirts that Julie had tucked away in the wake of nursing Joe. Here, Julie is explaining to Clara how everything looks better once it's been ironed. Doesn't she look like she's taking it all in and thinking, "Pearls. You're givin' me pearls, Mama Bird."? They also had a lengthy discussion about a skirt that Julie purchased when the peasant look was all the rage (a rage of which Julie was not such a fan) and the extent to which it was maybe too peasant-y after all? Or no? They decided no, and that it might look nice with namesake Grandma Jane's turquoise earrings. Lest our loyal readers think that Clara is the only one to get such lessons, you should all know that while Julie did not ask Joe's opinion on the peasant-iness of a skirt when he was Clara's age, he was instructed in the finer points of ironing and all about sorting laundry (Julie has done a lot of laundry with Joe or Clara in the Moby). Life skills or, pearls.