Decisions

I have never been one to make a decision easily, I go back and forth until it makes me crazy. Lately, I have had Halloween on my mind, trying to decide what Kate should be. (If she is this will she want to be it again later? etc.) All of this thinking has brought me to reflect upon my own childhood and past Halloweens. I came across this picture and would like to share it's story...


I was in the first grade and my sister Jennifer and my friend Eliza had this plan of being 50's girls. I knew I didn't want to be a 50's girl, but I didn't know what I wanted to be, so I waited until the last minute. I'm sure I had some big dream of being something really amazing, but I wasn't sure what it was.

I want to say it was Halloween morning when my mom came in to show me what I was going to be. She pulled out black leggings, cat ears and nose, a white sweatshirt and a wooden boombox. She then referred to the cat that was on the sweatshirt, the cat was wearing shades and carrying a boombox with music notes streaming out. She told me that I was going to be a "Cool" cat. I was mortified, but the funny thing is, is that I did it. My mom gave me instructions to carry the boombox on my shoulder during the parade at school and walk around like I was "cool". That way people would know what I was. I wasn't just a cat, I was a Cool Cat. I left the boombox in my cubby during the parade. I walked with complete jealousy as I watched the parents gawk and cheer at Lisa, who was a bunch of grapes. The Cool Cat didn't have the same effect and I was so humiliated. Later my mom told me it was because I didn't carry the boombox.

Decisions.

I don't know why I wasn't a 50's girl.