
Each year our church youth group selects a theme for their Christmas party. This year it was “A Wrinkly Christmas.” The idea was for the teens to dress up like grandparents. Since I’m one of the youth sponsors, and since I knew I would be the only real-live grandma at the party—I decided that would be my costume. I would dress up as the “authentic grandma.”
The authentic grandma then crashed the Youth Wrinkly Christmas Party. What fun!

The Youth were “play pretend” grandparents, but I was the real deal as you can see from the photo below. Here I am posing with the winner of best costume. (By the way, this is a guy!)

In this photo I’m posing with another of the Youth Sponsors.

Now our teens know how an authentic millennial grandma rocks!
This year’s Christmas Party (the Wrinkly Christmas Party) was a blast. And served to remind me why I love hanging out with teens!!
Merry Christmas to all the Clean Teen Reads Family!

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Moziah (Mo) Bridges has been fashion-conscious since age four. According to his mother, Mo has always loved to dress up and look sharp. One fashion statement he wanted to make was wearing bow ties, but all he could find were the clip-on style.
grandmother, a retired seamstress, taught him how to sew, which allowed him not only to have bow ties that he could tie himself, but to be able to choose his favorite patterns, colors, and fabrics.