Girls' Day Out

Kaylin and I went on our first mother-daughter shopping trip yesterday. Several weeks ago she asked me if we could go shopping, just the girls, no boys. I agreed and she's been asking to go ever since. I had to put this off until I actually had a reason to go to the store... Saturday night she asked again, and then said "Daddy needs to go to work to make us some more money." (Actually she said pay us some more money, but that's what she meant.) "So we can go shopping?" I asked. "Yeah, " she said with a guilty grin.

So Sunday I remembered a return that was about to meet its 90-day expiration on the receipt. I helped her empty her piggy bank and put her money into her new coin purse from Grammy Johnson. I added a little spare change of my own and off we went with her purse, cell phone, and somewhere between 2 and 3 dollars of quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies.

Our first stop was the return counter. Impatiently waiting for my exchange she decided to get on her cell phone and have a very grown-up conversation with who-knows-who. Then we browsed shoes and the toy department (she wanted to look for doctor clothes), but ended up in the dollar section. She was very excited to pick out not one but TWO items. She exchanged her one item from the toy dept. (a "pet" animal keychain) for two in the dollar section - a Tinkerbell diary and comb/mirror set. We dumped her change on the counter and I counted out the first 2.10, then let her count out the last 3 pennies and push them towards the cashier. She was extra excited about the small Target bag, just the perfect size for carrying her things. Then we got to go home to Daddy, where we had a fabulous time showing off our purchases. We even bought a couple things for the boys.