To All the Woman Who Aren’t Extra:

My mom invented extra. She was the personification of a Pinterest board back in the eighties and nineties when all people had to go by trends was Southern Living and department store Christmas catalogs.

We had themed parties, fake snow on Christmas, and matching outfits for all occasions. As a schoolteacher, she basically came up with her own dress-up days for us and gladly puffy-painted the shirts to coordinate.

Me, not so much.