The kids didn't have school today. They didn't yesterday either, but I had to work so I don't feel like I really had a chance to hang out with them or do anything fun. So, today was my day to do something different.
My way of letting TJ have fun was to let him go to a friend's house to play. That rarely happens, so he thought it was pretty special for him to get to do that. Taylyn, on the other hand, is always begging me to do things with just her...girl time. So today, after her eye appointment, I took her to the mall close by.
When I walked in, I realized that in her ten years of life, this is the first...FIRST...time I have ever taken her shopping in the mall, for only that purpose. We've been to the mall to eat or to look at running shoes for me or to shop for Christmas presents for other people...but I had never before been just shopping at the mall with my daughter.
After buying her a few small things at a popular store that she's always wanted to go to, a swarm of girls one year older than her came up to her, smiling and excited to see her. And then came that awkward moment, the one I've been dreading since the day I found out I was pregnant with her, the one that came inevitably too soon...the moment where I realized that she's on the tail end of being a little girl and is beginning to blossom into a young lady, one with her own personality and humor and interests. Of course, she'll always be my little girl, but seeing her in that mall and surrounded with the other girls who were just one year older than her, shopping alone together made me stop and realize just how fast she is growing up.
For now, I am relishing every moment when she still wants to be around me and still wants me to tag along. At the same time, I am becoming very aware that my time like that is limited and my little girl is growing up so very quickly!
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