Yesterday was Christina's first day of Summer! No school! Yeah!
My friend, Andrea, and her daughter, Morgan, who attends school with Christina, wisely thought of this terrific idea to make it extra special. What they did was suggest we have a day of outing activities with the two girls and that they each invite a favorite pal from school so that they have a foursome.
Originally, we'd planned to have lunch, go to a local Beading Craft Shop to design and make some fabulous jewelry, and top off the day with a movie. The girls all wanted to see NANCY DREW but it will not be released until the 15th so we'd planned to see SHREK 3. The girls jumped on that like white on rice and each made their buddy selection. Morgan chose Katrina and Christina chose Maggie. Perfect.
Morgan had a Horseback Riding Lesson until noon, so Christina and I picked up Katrina and Maggie and hotfooted it to meet up with Morgan and her mom while the three girls in the back seat could barely contain themselves! How I love this age when seeing each other is an event that calls for screeching and hugging as though they haven't seen one another in ages. (It had not even been 24 hours since they tearfully bid each other a good summer.)
Katrina had another outing planned with her father later in the afternoon and he needed her home by 4:30, so what we did was alter the plans to accommodate that and try to fit everything in. Skipping dessert at lunch and planning a side trip to a local Coldstone Creamery after the movie seemed to adjust the time block perfectly and we were off and running.
Lunch was an absolute blast. The conversation between the four 9 year olds kept Andrea and I thoroughly entertained, the food was positively scrumptious and the location was within walking distance to the theater, but we drove so that when the theater let out, we could high tail it to the beading activity! We'd made a slight error in the movie planning as SHREK 3 was not to be in the theater until the weekend, but we quickly adjusted the plan to see SURF'S UP instead. Thanks goodness for the double entendre! Andrea and I were killing ourselves laughing, as were the children, albeit at different things! Suffice it to say that a wonderful, fun time was definitely had by all. (In short, if you fear being bored when taking your little ones to see this one, dump those worries right now; you'll like it!)
The girls and I (concession... er, I mean, confession time) loaded up on snacks which eliminated the need to visit the Coldstone Creamery.
So the movie was a great success and then it was on to the Beading Place. Can I tell you now how incredibly artistic and talented our girls are! All four of them! They each selected their beads and decided upon the lengths, organized their designs, and had their necklaces and bracelets done lickity split! It was seriously impressive.
Andrea and I shot each other a we survived that, it was actually quite fun look and thought it was finished when we dropped Katrina off to her father at exactly 4:30 as promised. The girls had other ideas. We tried to stifle our giggles as we heard them meekly conspiring in the back seat. Before long, they asked ever so sweetly if they could go to the local playground for a while and we had, after all, been indoors for most of the day, escaping the 90 degree heat, so we went along with them saying it would be fine. Andrea had to beg off as she had to collect her wee one and I took the girls to play for an hour.
A lovely, busy, fun first day of summer!
We've already decided to take them all to see NANCY DREW on the 15th!
I'm ready today for the Graduation...
Starts at 11...
Faith is Valedictorian...
Should be awesome...
All for now.
CM
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