That is a direct quote from my mother.
At graduation we took a lot of photos. In the family photo, Jake stands in the back behind my father on the outer left edge. He sticks out like Papyrus on a resume.
Still can’t find him?
In that case, here is the run down from left to right: Jake, my father, me, my mother, Hudson (Luna’s son), and Luna, my sister. (We’re only missing my other sister, Bay, and my younger brother Daniel. Neither showed up.)
After looking at the print of this photo my mother first said, “Jake is so…tall” in a bemused sort of tone and then right after said, “He dresses goofy, doesn’t he?”
Shall we dissect her dress for a minute?
They are wearing almost the exact same colour top. Her’s just has a weird paisley pattern on it. She loves paisley patterns. My dad always says that my mom dresses like “khon bahn nawk,” which in Lao means, literally, “someone from outside the country.” It makes me laugh because we all give my mom such a hard time about her clothes. She just laughs.
After she laughed at Jake for a bit I laughed, too and said, “I like the way he dresses” to which she replied, “You dress goofy, too.”
Oh, mom.
(More pictures to come.)
Tags: 2010, family photos, lao, SCAD graduation, white boyfriend
