My Comeupance

Last August I was feeling all smug when everyone else was shopping for Back to School clothes. My kids' closets were full of cute, relatively new clothes that we had to buy last May.

You wouldn't catch me braving the Back to School shopping throngs. I am Superior Shopper! Queen of the catalog sales.

But it is payback time.

Now that the weather has turned cooler, and my kids have grown a few inches each, they have nothing to wear. Who said those kids were allowed to grow so much?

I also had to buy them real winter coats since we're traveling to New York City for Thanksgiving.

All in all, I just spent $460 on Land's End dot com and I probably only really got them a few outfits each.

This year, I swear, I am going to buy them each a wardrobe of winter clothes one size up when the clearance sales start. Then I can be all smug again next year.