coffee with the girl-child
On Monday and Tuesday mornings, I have to get the kids to school. The Boy-Child's first bell rings significantly sooner than does the Girl-Child's now that they are in different schools. So those mornings, after the Boy-Child gets dropped off, the Girl-Child and I have been stopping at Caribou Coffee to bide our time. I get a small coffee, and she gets tea...though lately she has been sneaking in a scone as well. I'm such a softie, lol.
So for about thirty minutes, we sip our drinks and talk about anything and everything, from fashion to swimming to the stock market to youtube to the election to the Jonas Brothers and everything in between. The Girl-Child is intelligent and articulate, so the discussions themselves are interesting. But the absolute best thing is that for those thirty-minute segments, we get hang out, just the two of us...still like mother and daughter, but like friends too, since there isn't anything else that needs to be done at that moment save sit and chat. Priceless.
So for about thirty minutes, we sip our drinks and talk about anything and everything, from fashion to swimming to the stock market to youtube to the election to the Jonas Brothers and everything in between. The Girl-Child is intelligent and articulate, so the discussions themselves are interesting. But the absolute best thing is that for those thirty-minute segments, we get hang out, just the two of us...still like mother and daughter, but like friends too, since there isn't anything else that needs to be done at that moment save sit and chat. Priceless.