Sunday Coats

Do you have one?

I am blessed to have one.  Ryan is blessed to have one (finally, after 5 years of marriage and a fabulous spring sale at Demarco's last year). 

And I know two little boys who are loved &; blessed beyond measure to have one.

Truth is*, I, as a child was also loved and blessed beyond measure to have one...and Tanner is now wearing it.  Taylor is sporting the one my brother Keith used to wear.  I believe every one of my siblings has worn these coats.

My mother, who is a master seamstress and frugal wife, made these darling wool coats for me and Keith when we were 3 and 1 (you'll notice my boys have nearly outgrown them).

Every few years, my mother would make me a new wool Sunday coat, and inevitably my sisters would get to enjoy it as well.

My favorite coat was of a soft, forest green, medium weight wool.  It had a peter-pan collar, with a scalloped edge cape that tied under the collar.  Because I used to play with the cape during primary, my mom eventually sewed it down, but I felt like a princess.  My coat had four leather buttons down the front, that made me feel grown up.   My mom also made a wool red and green (big) plaid jumper that was a beast to get on and off.  I hated wearing it for that very reason, because I could never get it on or off by myself!  (I pray my mom kept that keepsake of a jumper.  Even if she didn't I have 2 yards of similar wool that I won when I was 14, at the District Make-it-with-wool contest I did when we lived in Springville  I WILL have a daughter someday.  She WILL wear a darling jumper with a darling coat...someday.)  I know my mom still has the coat!    Oh, to be five and feel like a princess again!

I hope that by the time I get this blog into blurb to make a book, that I can find a picture of myself in my favorite green coat.  Or one of Keith and I...wouldn't that be great?!?!

I also have to mention my boy's Sunday shoes that you see in the picture.  Poor kids.  Tanner, I wasn't worried about, so much as Taylor.  The kid has only had shoes his brother has worn, which isn't too bad.  But I realized that Taylor was wearing size 5 Sunday shoes and size 6 play shoes...when I measured his feet at PayLess the other day, he was a whopping SIZE 7-7 1/2!  So he got new play and Sunday shoes.  Tanner, on the other hand, is a size 9.  He's been tromping around in size 10 play shoes for well over a year now, but we did 'upgrade' and get him size 9 Sunday shoes.  His were still too big to pass onto Taylor...maybe next year!?!?

Bottom Line:  You'll act better if you're dressed better.  And Tanner and Taylor were angels in Sacrament meeting today.  Primary...???...not so much.  But we're working on it.  I suppose I'll tell our pianist "no" the next time she needs a sub so I can sit with Tanner in his class.  Silly boy can't sit still for one second...


* I have been asked in the past few weeks where I got these 'darling' coats for my boys.  Today I was asked by five different people.