The New Adventures...

One of my best friends and I joke about the PTA mommies on a certain sitcom. Except that we are the PTA mommies. Sort of. Neither of us is a bleached blonde, or especially gossip-y, but we both volunteer at our kids' schools.

So anyway, my son is at a new school this year. I volunteered to get to know some other moms. Silly me, I figured an annual fundraiser would be a relatively simple way to break into the PTA mommy circle. I should've known that this school would host a black tie event in a place like this:



Nobody hosts black tie ANYTHING in Hawaii... even weddings don't get that formal.