Wednesday nights are argueably my busiest night. I don't know how others who have several children or children in several activities do it. Kylee only has gymnastics one night a week...and it's her only activity. For some reason, it's exhausting to me. It's been made a little easier since MIL is here because she keeps Kade at home instead of me chasing the wild banchee all over the waiting room of the gymnastics place for what is the longest 45 mins of my day.
So tonight, after gymnastics, we decided to go to Beef O Brady's to eat with Hannah, Bishop and Jill. On the way to Beef's after gymnastics, this was our conversation as I drove...

Me: Hey Kylee
Kylee: yes
Me: Have a I told you today that I love you?
Kylee: Yes
Me: Can I tell you again?
Kylee: You can tell me as much as you want. I will never get tired of that.

Isn't that the best? I could hear that forever!

Kylee being her normal great eater, was easy at Beef's. The kids' meal she always gets is chicken wings and curly fries. It comes with 2 oreo cookies..which until this year, she never liked. (I mean really...what kid doesn't like Oreo cookies? I'm telling you..she's an adult in a child's body!) As we left, she was saying she didn't have dessert. I told her when she got home, it was bath and bed, because it was past her bedtime. She said she wanted dessert so I caved and let her have the two oreos on the way home. In that moment, it reminded me of when I was young and my parents used to take my sister and I to Macayo's for dinner. We would get the ice cream scoop for dessert with the coveted little plastic donkey on the top. It was the HIGHLIGHT of the entire dinner (well, that and the shirley temple with the cherries at the beginning of the meal). It is a memory that just fits...like an old pair of shoes...it's cozy to me.
One day, I hope she will look back on our special "mommy-Kylee dates", or our favorite little places to eat. I hope it brings the same cozy feeling to her...and makes her smile.