Moms Talk
I Survived Black Friday and Teen Angst, All in One Night
I was surprised, and a bit cranky, to find myself waiting on line to get into Target at midnight on Friday.
It started out as an attempt to humor my teenage daughter who had seen one-too-many Target commercials encouraging shoppers to prepare for Black Friday as if it were the Olympics of shopping. Spurred on by the fun we had last year hitting a few stores in the early morning hours the day after Thanksgiving, coupled with all of those savings she envisioned (she has tons of her own money and is indeed a thrifty shopper), my daughter was gunning to hit some big box stores late Thursday night. But after a long Thanksgiving day filled with an early-morning run, cooking, cleaning and hours with my family, all I wanted to do by 7 p.m. was crawl into bed and read. And that's when she started to cry. Not only did she want to go Black Friday shopping…
