Lots of fun holiday stuff going on this weekend. The kids live for the dressing up, and the harvest fun. Halloween is really a great kid holiday. Which is why it kind of bums me out to see it being run over by Christmas.

Christmas stuff is out in stores. You can even, I kid you not, buy a tree already. (Wouldn’t it be a fire hazard by Thanksgiving if you did?) I like enjoying all the holidays, not being rushed through as if only one matters.

The early Christmas stuff brought about a minor crisis. Costco always puts out little girl holiday dresses at Christmas and Easter. We tend to scoop these up as they are always beautiful and fabulous deals. This year, we noticed the size cutoff and realized…Tall Kid is getting too tall and really should have the next size up.

Her little world is now off kilter. Too big for the holiday dresses? There will be no holiday dress at all, she just knows it, she has outgrown childhood. Reassurances have failed, so tonight she gets stuffed into her princess costume to be reminded that she’s still a kid and by the time we get to Christmas, she’ll have a dress with the ruffles and bows she’s entitled to as a member of the Small People Coalition. Early Christmas displays and unfair ruffly dress size-ism notwithstanding.