The Five of Us, Spring 2014
Is This Tacky?
So, I was watching Punk today and realized that his "long sleeve" shirt was looking a lot more like a 3/4-length! He doesn't have many long sleeves left over from last winter, and all of them require a certain stretching of the truth whenever we refer to them as "long-sleeved." So, I ran right out to Once Upon a Child and stocked up. This evening I was looking through my purchases and really looked at this shirt:
At first glance, it's just a cute t-shirt. Perhaps it's a subtle message about uniqueness? But, it's also a bearish representation of our family. White daddy, white mama, white child, brown child. Is that reading too much into it? Is it still just a cute shirt? Or, does it make too much of a big deal about something we see as normal, but which others have questions about? Is it not PC for a multi-racial family to have a son who wears this shirt? Help me out!
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My Man and Me
married 7/7/2001
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ours through biology, born 7/25/2004, home 8/1/2004
Pea
ours through adoption from Liberia, West Africa, born 7/15/2005, home 10/25/2007
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ours through domestic adoption, born 1/15/2011, home 2/10/2011, final 8/3/2011
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5 comments:
Hi Rachel,
I love it. I think he should wear it proud! Don't worry about what anyone else thinks.
Kristie (a long-time blog stalker)
i love the shirt. I don't think its tacky at all. I am not sure that people woudl even read into it too much and even if they do it would be a great conversation starter. You may even shed some light on adoption and families.
I think it's ok...I might not have him wear it when you're all out at a fair or something. It IS a cute shirt, I think you're just trying to be sensitive to your little girlie. I guess I really don't know what to say! Lot of help I've been!! Denise :)
Let him wear it Rachel! I think it's ironic you didn't notice it when you bought it. I also think it's funny that anyone would make a shirt like that - are multi-racial families becoming THAT common? If not, what DOES the shirt mean???
I love the shirt!
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