GPOYW: my mom is the very best edition.
when i was a little girl, my mother used to let me and my good friend colie get all dressed up in her hand-me-down formal dresses that had long since made the Costume Box. and then she’d take us to the nicest restaurant in town, order us champagne flutes full of gingerale and nicer meals than we knew what to do with and let us feel all special and grownup. i took great pride in knowing which silverware was used when, i remember that.
this particular documentation of a fairy tale night was right after the mariah carey cd first came out - her first one. it was the first cd i ever bought. and when we came home from dinner, my mother put it on the stereo and we had a dance party in the living room.
sometimes, having a single parent household was an awesome thing. it would have been nice to have my dad there to dance with, i guess, but i really don’t think he’d have tolerated mariah carey. and my mom even got out a mic to let us really belt it.
