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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

A Loving Date

Last week I had a date with my daughter, just two of us. After picking her up from her course, we went to a mall. Arriving there, first we went to a shop that sells pins, ribbons, and other girly stuff. “You can choose 3 pins by yourself,” I told her and she chose a piggy head pin, a crown pin, and a pink rabbit pin.


Then we went to have dinner, a bowl of delicious noodle and a glass of tea. Simple dinner and we shared it.


From there we went to a bookstore where I allowed her to choose 3 books. She excitedly looked here and there, picked up a mini kids bible with lots of drawing inside, then just sat on the floor and looked it through. I watched her and smiled, she’s so serious looking at the book that her lip was long enough to hang something there hehehe... After a few minutes, she put the book back and decided to look around first. This books hunting was paused for a while when she suddenly wanted to go to the toilet!! However, we finally able to complete this books shopping mission. We chose “Power Bible Comic 1” by Kim Shin-Joong, “Panz the Great Detective, the Secret of Natural & Animals” by Ryu Gi-Woon, and an activity book, contained hundreds of stickers. Before leaving the bookstore, she went to the staff there by herself, asked for the little card to be put in one of the “customers satisfaction boxes”. The staff handed her and quickly my daughter put the card in the “Smiling” box, indicating she’s satisfied with the service.

Then we went to the supermarket and quickly shopped for our shower liquid. Wow, it was 8 pm and raining very hard outside. We left the mall, stopped by McDonald’s Drive-Thru, bought a pack of french fries and ate together in car. We also passed by the almost in-flood road and looked at all the water splashing here and there. We made weird noisy voice in the car and laughed real loud.
Arriving home, my daughter said, “Mommy, this is a very, very fun night!”

A date with my daughter... nothing luxurious here, a very simple date, and yet my daughter treated it as a very, very fun night! Kids are born to cherish simple yet valuable togetherness and they are pretty good in showing their appreciation in their joyful laughter. Surely, I’ll be waiting for such kind of dates with her…
The next morning, I woke up first and I looked at my lovely daughter. It's like she's dreaming something nice... perhaps our yesterday date... she was smiling in her sleep...

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