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October 14th. Every year this is Blossom Day for my daughter. It is the day each year when she receives her "right of passage". It's not her birthday, that's in August, it's just turned into Blossom Day. It all started when she was 10 years old. She was getting VERY frustrated at not being old enough for anything. Not just mad, but to the point of tears. She was a big girl now and wanted to grow up and we wouldn't let her. I knew she needed to have something that let her know we thought she was growing up and could be responsible to take care of something. So, I talked with my husband and got him to let me get her ears pierced (something she'd been begging for). We planned a "girl's day". She made a scroll with all the things she wanted to do special; we got all dressed up, and off we went.
First we went out for breakfast. We took pictures of each other at the restraurant. Then it was off to the mall. First stop was Merrell Norman's for the ear piercing. (Of course I left the camera in the car). Next we stopped at jewelry kiosk and bought some 14K gold earrings for when the starters come out. We went to one of the department stores and bought her first piece of "intimate apparell". We went to the bookstore and bought a book about puberty and growing up that she picked out (American Girls " The Care and Keeping of You" I highly recommend it). We had McFlurries from McDonalds, split a giant cookie and had lunch at Olive Garden. Then we went home, curled up in her bedroom and went through our new book. It was October 14th. When I went to scrapbook about it, all I had was the two pictures from breakfast. So I filled the page with the story of our day, decorated it with lots of flowers and titled it "Katie's Day to Bloom".
From then on, October 14th has been Blossom Day. We always go out for breakfast, go mall cruising, and go shopping for whatever is Blossoming. In years past this is our day for buy larger "intimate apparell", her first Femine Hygiene Products to keep in the bathroom for when that day came. It was the day she got to wear High Heels and panty hose instead of tights and maryjanes; and so on. Last year it was the Mary Kay make over and permission to wear make up. This year it was her Driver's Permit and a Cell Phone. She knows that's the day when she will be allowed one more "right of passage" . She's been looking forward to next year for two years as she will be 16, as she knows that's when she can have Contact Lenses. And she won't get them when she turns 16 (in August), but on Blossom Day October 14th.
All though it happened purely by accident at our house, it will be something that we keep long into her adult years and I'm sure it will happen on purpose in her house with her daughters. I would hope you all take the time to start a Blossom Day with your daughters (just pick the weekend that you decide to buy that first "intimate apparell") and give each of them warm, beautiful memories of blooming into womanhood. Julie Here's my blooming Chrysanthemum...with her new leash, oh, I mean phone.
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