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I am a bit of a matchy-matchy kinda girl. In other words, my shirt and socks usually coordinate, as does my cardigan and sometimes even my shoes, if I can help it. But I am not a prim and proper dresser by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, one friend calls me a 'preppy hippie', because although I wear a lot of tie-dye's, I always have a matching cardigan to go with it. Unfortunately, I tend to inflict this neuroses on my children as well. Having two girls is fodder for dressing them alike--coordinating them down to their pacifier. But I am not a total freak, I do occasionally relent and let them pick out their own mis-matched outfits. For example, lately, my 3 -year-old's favorite shoes are her “Dorothy's,” as she calls them. In other words, her red sparkly shoes. It's something every girl seems to go through around this age. I remember my older daughter having the same obsession for her similarly sparkly silver shoes. In fact her shoe obsession has grown, but...
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