You know those parents that say, “I will never do _______________ with my kid.”? Well, I am not an official outside parent yet and I already caught myself eating those words.
Back in the day, when I assumed I had a singleton baby growing in me, I always had a feeling it was a girl. Call it mother’s intuition or whatever, but since the day the test turned positive, I was sure we were going to have a daughter.
There was one problem; I am adamantly against the color pink. Personally, I don’t have anything against pink; in fact, I find it to be a fun color. I am just not a pink person. I have tried it, not for me. When I thought about the possibility of having a daughter, all I could think of is the over-indulged, Pep to-influenced pink stuff I would get. It was a slight progression in knowing that my possible daughter would be wearing pink, because let’s face it; a majority of the clothes made for infant girls only come in pink. However, I did announce that she would not, under any circumstance, have a pink room.
Then, we found out we were having boy/girl twins. Total game changer. Now, I find myself migrating to the pink because I don’t want people to think I have two boys. Since the babies are sharing a room for now, there are some hints of pink, but still no overly cute, pretty princess, pink stuff.
Colleen – 0: Society - 1
It's true - there's basically only pink things for girls. Pink and purple, pink and purple.
ReplyDeleteAnd yellow...there are some yellow, but mostly pink and purple.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry. I will be that friend who only buys your daughter non-pink things. Because I don;t like pink either. For now.
ReplyDeleteHA! I knew you would come to the dark side...
ReplyDeletei love pink - but i get tired of putting G in pink.all.the.time. i go out of my way to find different stuff for her - she has purple, orange, blue, green and yellow stuff too :) but i am also very girly so usually, she is wearing a bow to go with it!!
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