I have so many reasons to be thankful, I'm not sure you have the time to read them all, so I'll condense and spread them all out over the next few days or so.
It's been a long time since my now-seventeen-year-old daughter Bard and I went out on a girls' day out together, so I decided that I would treat her to a whole day of shopping, dining and enjoying each other's company for her birthday. Since she had choir on Saturday (her entire choir sang Happy Birthday with full harmonies. Beautiful!), we were already going to be in the Big City, so I arranged for Bo to take care of the necessities at home, including delivering soup to Houdin's 30-Hour-Famine fast and delivering pizzas in the evening, and we took the day off to go play.
What a fun day we had! Lunch at Panera; over to the ritzy pet boutique to ogle over the puppies; shopping at Target, Sam's Club and Kohl's; a movie--Music and Lyrics with the witty and loveable Hugh Grant (with no popcorn--we both exercised very strong willpower and were thankful for it. Movie popcorn ALWAYS makes me sick); dinner at The Waffle House, where I scored a free coffee mug, just for asking; and we hung out at Borders until it was just about closing time; and then we drove home. We took our time all day long, enjoyed each other's company, laughed a lot, and it was wonderful.
Thank you, Bard, for such a fine time. I'm so glad we got to do that!
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