Professional Dress & Kids

One morning last year I was talking with a coworker before my morning class when she hesitantly told me with her nose wrinkled in distaste, "By the way, you have something on your shoulder".  I looked and immediately identified a glossy streak across my right shoulder that was caused by one of my children using my shoulder as a tissue.  I hastily ran to the ladies room, scrubbed off the slime, and dashed to my classroom praying that there were no more kid marks on my clothes when I would be standing in front of 90 students. 

It's hard to dress professionally with kids.  Heaven forbid you put on a spanking clean pair of dry clean only dress pants because they are sure to get cereal, yogurt, or worst of all, spit up on them in the first 10 minutes of wearing.  It's a struggle to find items that are hardy and hand/machine washable so that our dry cleaning bill isn't out of control.  The clothes have to weather 3 kids, 2 dogs, miles of walking in the hospital, clinics, and campus, and 12 hour days.

Anyway, since I need some more work clothes, I'm going to be shopping this week for clothes that can survive the daily juggle.  Thankfully, I enjoy shopping so hunting for work clothes is still a lot of fun! :)