Mother/Daughter Date

Tonight Hannah and I went to see the Allen Christmas Tree lighting for a Mother/Daughter date. This is kind of like Temple Square at Christmas time but not as pretty and not as fun, but for Allen it is a big deal. This was something that started out as a Family outing but Brent came home really sick today so Danielle stayed home to take care of him. Isn't she sweet?! Actually, she was so tired that I refused to take her. Brent talked her into staying home with him. They played "Sorry" and had hot chocolate and watched "The Cosby Show" all of which she loves to do. Anyway, before we left I made Hannah bundle up in all her jackets because we don't own coats here in Texas, it just doesn't make sense to buy a coat that you wear for 3 weeks out of the year. Once we were bundled up (it was in the 40's) we headed up to 7-11 where we stopped for hot chocolate and then headed to the Tree lighting. Once we got there, we walked around, took some pictures, talked with some friends, watched the tree light up...twice. Not sure what happened there. We got some popcorn and walked around some more. We decided it was time to go home. Then the fun really started! As we got into the car, Hannah realized she was missing a glove. She gets out of the car to look for it and almost gets hit by a car. After I lecture her about watching out for cars in the parking lot she starts to cry, not for getting yelled at, but for losing her glove. I then drive across the parking lot looking for this glove. We don't see it. I tell her we can go get her another pair of gloves.(By the way, this glove had a hole in it) After a trip to Target and walking out empty-handed I then think it would be better to go back and search for the glove than to store hop looking for a pair that would satisfy her. So we go back to the "Tree." We ask the police there if they can help us and if there is a lost & found anywhere. They were so nice but we never found the glove.(This whole time I kept thinking "Danielle is giving Hannah a pair of gloves for Christmas, can't she wait for 3 more weeks?!") As we walked back to the car I looked down at some stairs that we didn't walk by before and there it was! Hannah finally had a smile on her face along with two matching gloves! I'm so glad our date ended the way it did...a happy child and a happy Mom!