Dress like a cow!

A funny thing happened this time last year, my mother and I stumbled into Chick Fil-a for a late lunch with the girls and discovered...cows! People dressed like cows that is! I was sitting at the table when I looked to my right and saw a whole family dressed like cows. "They sure are strange," I thought. Then I look to my left. More cows. What in the world was going on? The whole place was filled with people dressed like cows. It took a good few minutes, but my mom and I finally figured it out (with the help of a sign), it was "Cow Appreciation Day" and if you dressed like a cow you got a free meal. Last year I said, "Those people are NUTS! I will gladly pay for my own chicken sandwich, thank you very much!" This year, well, ahem, this year I am sporting spots. Cow spots that is. On my shirt. On my toes. On my children. And, um, on my mom, sister, niece, two nephews, and my best friend's boy. I just had to do it. I just had to join in on "Cow Appreciation Day" when I knew it was coming. I saw the sign and somehow it got added to our list. This year WE were the crazy people everyone was staring at and thinking, so not worth a free sandwich! But guess what? Even without the free meal, I would have done it again!! It was just too much fun to dress up like cows! You should have felt the level of excitement in my house this morning while we were dressing up all the kids...it was like getting ready for the prom! Giggling girls running around everywhere, checking each other out! And, that was just my mom, sister, and I. You should have heard the kids!! Then, we had to drive to pick up my friend Jennie's son up from daycare. A small group of children staring at me like I was crazy, and their teacher said nothing! She must have been warned. Jen must be telling stories about me because the woman didn't even blink. I am not sure what the residents of Frederick thought about the caravan of cows driving through town, but I am sure we caused quite a few double takes. Once we got to the restaurant it was fun to mingle among the other cow folk. Although, I must admit to partaking in some odd form of cow snobbery. I mean, really, some of those other cows just had paper spots pinned to their shirts!. Ours were the far superior felt spots properly glued to our shirts (even though I goofed on the ears a little and we all looked a little like Shrek). Truly, I don't see why we don't do this everyday! We should go to McDonalds dressed like clowns, Roy Rogers dressed like cowboys, Burger King dressed like royalty! The list goes on and on. And, I am sure my family would go along with me. They must be used to my crazy ways by now...it took hardly any convincing to get them to dress like cows after all! I think they secretly love that I force them to do all this weird stuff! I wonder what else I can make them do...hmmmm!?!? I can't wait to find out!

So, we did it, we dressed like cows! Another item completed from the list, even though this was a late addition, we got it done. And, I learned a little, too. I learned that making cow costumes actually costs MORE than what we would have paid for our meals, and that it takes a whole lot of time to cut out spots, but it sure is a whole heck of a lot of FUN!