Today Sydney had a day off of school for Shavuot, the Jewish holiday that marks the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai. Ever since Sydney has started preschool a whole day off together has become such a precious thing to me. I love the feeling of waking up in the morning and knowing that we can just hang out together in our pajamas and do whatever we'd like with our day. I always try and think of something special that we can share.
I love seeing what Sydney does with her time when she's not being rushed to get ready in the morning!
Today we decided that we'd take a little trip across the line and do some long overdue shopping in Bellingham.
We headed to Target first, Sydney absolutely loves it there. I always let her choose her own box of bandaids and a special hand soap or body wash for her bathroom, she talks about it for days before we go, it's quite cute.
We had such fun wandering up and down the aisles looking at all of the fun summer stock that Target has right now. We ended up getting some very cute things for Sydney for this summer, shirts, shorts, a dress and the cutest pair of sandals ever along with, what else, but a Hello Kitty bathing suit!
Sydney was so hillarious in the clothing section, thumbing through rack after rack looking for things that were in her size and then exclaiming "Oh Mom, this is SO cute!" She literally pulled off a dozen boxes of shoes to try on too before deciding on the silver sandals that we eventually bought.
I even got myself a couple of things, a very cool beach tote and a bright orange sun dress. Love it!
After all that shopping at Target we had worked up quite the appetite so we decided to stop for a little lunch at Olive Garden.
I love this restaurant. I can honestly say in all the times that I have eaten there in the past I have never even entertained getting an appetizer as their portions are so huge and between that and the bottomless breadsticks and salad or soup....So today I thought I'd try something a bit different and ordered two super yummy appetizers as my lunch.
I had some amazing risotto balls in marinara sauce and a mozarella bruschetta which was so so delicious!
We had a lovely time together over lunch and left refreshed and ready for round two of shopping at Trader Joe's.
We left with heaping bags of things, mostly our old favourites but always a new thing or two to try.
Before we left for home we stopped and picked up takeaway from Panda Express for dinner, it's always a nice treat to not have to cook when I get home from a day on the road.
It was a very fun shopping day together with my girl, I love that she loves to shop with me and so look forward to keeping up this tradition with her for years to come!
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