Back to School

Mothers and daughters everywhere excitedly search Gap Kids for the perfect first day of school clothes. After browsing some, they compromise, pairing the bold flower-print shirt with the knee-length tan shorts. At home, the clothes are hung neatly in the closet. Miles away, at the Gilbert house, my Mother’s closet looks strangely similar, heavily evoking the “first day of third grade” style. It’s in the dirtied Keds, patterned capris, and second-hand, brightly-colored tee-shirts with their tags out-turned. Standing next to Daddy in his hole-ridden, dirty polo shirts and khaki shorts, they make the cutest couple in all the third grade.