"Mom, are you aware?"

....asked me dear little 9 year old daughter, "that Malia is trying to bring scrunchies back into fashion?"

"Well, the good news is that scrunchies will never be back in fashion.  I hope."

"Even her friends are wearing them to help her."

"Well, that's nice of her friends."

And then Malia arrived.
"Scrunchies will never be back in fashion," the younger sister recants with the knowing and authoritative attitude of a wise old man.

"Huh?"

"She's right.  Sorry.  Headbands are in."

"Headbands?"

"Well, a scrunchie is kind of like a headband."

"Like a headband for your ponytail."

And in effort to not crush the accessory hopes and dreams of my girls, who decided to agree on something, I bowed out.  If my daughter wants to commit the fashion faux pas that is the scrunchie and is willing to rock it with all the self-confidence in the world, more power too her.

We should all be so brave.