One of things I miss now a days is having mother-daughter dates. I have been extremely fortunate to have some really fantastic women to help 'fill the void' (like my wonderful 'other mother', you know who you are) but among all these great ladies offering me a "mom-hug" or what not, its never the same. I miss the spontaneous Saturdays where my mom and I would have a mother-daughter date. There is something really fantastically special in having a certain place that is just 'your' restaurant. The kind of place that you didn not go or even think about going unless it was on a mother daughter date. No if's ands or buts. Our restaurant was this Vietnamese noodle place in Cedar Park and true to my words, I haven't been there since my last mother daughter date with my mom in over three years. I could really go for that right about now.
The point of this rambling is that if you don't have a special place that is just between you and your mom, or you and your daughter, you should go find one.
Memory #5
I'm going to warn you that this memory isn't really a story. It's nothing very special but it happened almost every other Saturday during the colder months and I'm feeling very nostalgic today. Ha sorry not sorry. For the most part my mom spent a lot of time in bed. Not like under the covers and still in her night gown but she would lay on the bed with her computer playing brain games while watching TV. Every so often on a Saturday morning I would wake up and come down the stairs and just crawl up next to my mom and kind of just snuggle up to her and watch whatever Sudoku or word puzzle she was completing.
Usually I had every intention to get out of her bed and you know do something productive but my mom had this cuddle aura that just made you want to stay there all day. Sometimes I would. I'm not even embarrassed. The best mornings though were when my mom would have the hallmark movie channel playing. Seriously. We would watch all these super terrible cheesy romantic movies one after another. If for some reason we ran out, which almost never happened, my mom would magically have some pre-recorded and we would watch them. There is no stopping a cheesy hallmark movie marathon. Ever.
Since we watched a whole heck of these movies we also started coming up a game. Before we would watch the movie we would read the description and then we would both make five guesses to what we thought the plot would turn out to be. If we got most of them right we would finally get out of bed and drive to our place to have a date.
Go find yourself a place and have yourself a mother-daughter date.
Love always,
Erin
P.S.
Sorry not sorry for all the nostalgia in this post!
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