Mar. 9, 2009 - A Girl's Day!
Today Abigail and I are were blessed to be able to spend the whole day together, just the two of us. We started off by packing some banana bread for her piano teacher as we were lavished with hugs and kisses from the children and Daddy who were staying at home. Then we hopped in the van and headed to the fabric store. Not JoAnn’s or Hancock. No. The nice fabric store! The one with the softest of soft fabrics; The one that just has adorability oozing out of every cute cranny inside. The one that is so whimsical it has sweet red wagons lined by the door instead of cumbersome carts. We chatted about the designs we saw, oohed and aahed over the softness we felt, and eventually chose the fabric we wanted for Resurrection Day dresses. (Yes, I know I’m starting late.)
When we were getting ready to check out I realized I didn’t have my bag … which meant I didn’t have my wallet. We quickly said farewell to our beautiful fabric, abandoning it upon the shelf from which it came and just about ran to the van to go back to the house. Since we wanted to get a new baby gift for Abigail’s piano teacher’s new grandson, after we retrieved my bag from home, we went shopping for a little gift. This time we did go to JoAnn’s to look for fabric to make a baby wrap. Our JoAnn’s is moving so they are clearing out all of their fabric and they had absolutely nothing knit. We had exactly 27 minutes to get to piano lessons.
We got to Kohl’s as quickly as we could, ran inside … literally, we ran. We looked at the baby things trying to decide just what the perfect gift would be. Then we saw it; a swaddle blanket. I love those things. There was only one problem. It was $30. There was no way I was going to spend $30 on something I could get for $9.99 across the street at Target. Abigail and I looked at each other, grabbed each other’s hands, and politely scurried to the door just a few feet away. As soon as we met the warm breeze we ran as fast as we could to the van. Buckles were done in record speed. As I was backing out of the parking spot, I glanced at the clock. We had 24 minutes until we had to be at piano lessons.
Once at Target we unbuckled just as quickly as we had buckled, and grabbing hands once again we ran. We went straight to the baby department, located the swaddle blankets and chose the cutest little boys one they had. Abigail eyed a box of adorable socks that looked like sneakers, we grabbed them also and hurried to the gift wrapping section before heading to the check out. Then, we were out the door and in the van, once again buckling at a speed fast enough to break a sweat. As I cranked the ignition, I waited for the clock to flash on to the time. Three minutes. No. Not three minutes until we had to be there. We were in Target for just three minutes. Actually, from Kohl’s parking lot until we were back in the van after acquiring our little gift was only three minutes. Abigail wrapped the gift as I drove and we arrived to Miss Bonnie’s in time.
Not just in time. Would you believe that we arrived to Miss Bonnie’s house with ten minutes to spare? It’s a good thing … we needed to catch our breath.
` I love watching Abigail during her piano lesson. She’s so intent. Sometimes I can tell when she is nervous about a particular part coming up because she starts to shift her weight on the wooden bench and her feet do a little dance.
After piano, she and I were off to Panera to enjoy a late lunch together. It was such a fun time talking with her. She is becoming a young lady before my very eyes and I am astonished at how she is blossoming. I can’t believe that my first little baby is getting so big, so thoughtful, so insightful.
We had a great day but were so thankful to return home to our family and were greeted with eager hugs and squeals.
I am so blessed and completely humbled as I don’t deserve this wonderful family that God has so graciously bestowed upon me.
Comments
Mar. 15, 2009 - Awesome
Posted by basketflat
What an awesome day. I'm glad you got to spend such a blessed day with your young lady.
Cathy
