a girl after my own heart

Date night.  Claire and I!  Claire told me the other day, "Mom, you and I have never had a date."  I thought a bit and realized in her eyes, she was right.  We've been plenty of places together, alone, but nothing officially called a "date." ( I do grocery dates with the girls, but maybe those don't count?)  I think she had so much fun on her "Daddy date" this summer, that she wanted to do it again!  

Here's how it came to be...Tom asked both girls if they wanted to go shooting this morning. Ella gladly wanted to join him, Claire said, "no thanks." So...Claire and I spent a chunk of time together as we waited for Tom and Ella to get home.  We read and read and read books together in the recliner and began a craft together.  She carefully picked out the dress she would wear and I did her hair, just as she requested. (a braid on each side & pulled together in back)  We talked about what she wanted to do together and she carefully made this list...

1.  cuvr (the main event was to be shopping for a cover for her new bible)

2.  kraberee cadij (I suggested browsing Cranberry Cottage as she'd never been there and I      knew she'd love it)

3.  frostee (from Wendy's)

4.  turgit (Target, just because)

5.  aowt to eat (out to eat)

I cracked up when we were leaving Shalom that she pulled out her "list" of things to do and reprimanded me for forgetting the frosty at Wendy's!  "See mom, you're forgetting number 3!" We didn't ever get to #3, but we did enjoy dinner and dessert together at Evangelos.  She had requested pizza and as we were leaving Target, I asked her if she wanted pizza hut or pizza from somewhere fancier.  And how did I think she would answer?  Fancy, of course!  As we were eating, I described my favorite dessert to her there and asked her if she wanted to try it or go get a frosty.  Being the chocolate lover she is, she picked wisely and chose to have dessert with class.  I ordered the chocolate silk cake with extra whipped cream for us and this is when the fun really began....we fought over the whipped cream!!!!  She'd never eaten with a long dessert spoon before and we had great fun with them.  She told me she liked our date because it was nice and quiet, we didn't have to rush, and it was all for her.  Sweet.