Please don't tell me we have to do this all over again

Two years ago I wrote about my experience of shopping with Madison for her first cocktail dress for her first dance.  This year we are shopping for her 8th grade graduation dresses; one for the graduation and one for the dance.  At the same time Darcy is shopping for her first cocktail dress for her first dance.  And so the three of us met up with Madison's classmate and mother yesterday at the mall for a full day of dress shopping.

The three girls chose not to hang with us at the mall.  They took their phones and ran off to shop.  We three women headed straight for the only restaurant and began drinking.  The girls would text us photos of themselves in dresses or they would text us that they had found something to buy and needed money.  By the time we had eaten and drunk just enough to get us through a couple more hours of shopping the total so far was:

• Heather - 1 sweatshirt, 1 bathing suit, 1 pair of jeans, 1 skirt, 1 bag and Starbucks yummy
• Darcy - 1 sweatshirt, 1 bag and Starbucks yummy
• Madison - Starbucks yummy and soft pretzel

Now the two 8th graders are having their 8th grade pictures taken in three weeks in their graduation dresses.  Heather had already gotten hers, but Madison hadn't and so I reminded her that a pretzel and Starbucks weren't going to be in the picture with her.  Off the three girls went, only this time we went with them and sat outside the stores waiting for the picture texts.

By the time we got to the last store Darcy had both of her dresses and Heather had her party dress.  Madison still had nothing.  We went into the dressing room and Darcy and I brought Maddy dresses to try on.  Darcy got bored and decided to try on dresses herself while Heather and I took photos.  Behold:

At one point she had on a black sequined dress that had one sleeve that came up to the shoulder and left the opposite shoulder and arm bare.  I told her she didn't have the boobs for that dress and she responded, quite seriously, with:  "If I had my other bra on I could so pull off this dress!"

Madison finally tried on a few dresses suitable for graduation day, which is an outside event.  Behold:

We didn't buy any of them as the sales lady informed us that the store was closing an hour earlier than the rest of the mall.  As the dresses were over $75 I didn't want to make a rash decision and decided to just take the photos and view them at home.  Which turned out to be a good decision as we found we liked certain dresses better then we did in the store and vice versa.  Bottom line is that we have to do this all over again next week.  When I should be at the beach....