The Best Day

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The Best Day-Taylor Swift

Sometimes you have to ignore your priorities and just let loose. Sometimes you have to leave one thing on your to-do list off of your to-do list...decide that it can wait until tomorrow. Some days it's good to procrastinate. Today was one of those days.

My plan for today was to sleep until I woke up and then write a draft of the speech I have due this week. Instead, my mom woke me up at 11 and told me she wanted to go to the mall. I took drafting my speech off of my to-do list and set off with my mom to begin what ended up being one of my best days in a long time.

We started it off going to Rocky Hill to get scrubs for an old neighbor who had had hip surgery. Maybe that seems boring, like a chore, but it bought me even more quality time with my mom, so it was great. Then we decided last-minute to go to the other mall so that we could go to Dick's for sneakers (which I didn't end up getting and just resulted in a painfully awkward run-in with an ex.) We went to Macy's for a coffee maker and then to the food court. We ordered Cajun food and sat down next to the carousel we used to take Cameron to ride almost every weekend. (Those trips were completed with an Orange Julius, Arby's fries and pennies thrown into the fountain. But the carousel was the best):

We ate our chicken and talked about their trip to Germany and where we would go. And then we ordered ice cream and talked about the boy. We began our search for sneakers, which yielded no results. We went to Build-A-Bear and made a bear together. I wish I could remember my mom's comments on the cat pictured below verbatim, but the words, "tramp" and "cankles" were used and it was funny.

Checking that our bear was soft:

Giving her a heart...Complete with a wish:

Introducing Lucy Cassandra, the teddy bear version of my mommy when she gets home from work. No really. The resemblance is frightening. ;) :

After Build-A-Bear we got a lemonade to share and headed over to Pier 1 Imports for a chair. She may ground me for this photo, but it's funny. 'Cause she was yelling at me for taking another picture. But even more funny because that chair was an outdoor chair and we were looking for an indoor chair:

And we took a picture together and practiced our duck-faces:

And then we got home and the boy wanted to go for some fries and a shake. So we took a ride to McD's. But their shake maker was broken. So we took another ride to a different McD's and I borrowed my mom's shoes to go inside and she smelled them when I got back to the car to make sure I hadn't ruined them, even though I was only wearing them for 3 seconds. Seriously? The kid is cute even with a seatbelt covering his face:

And once we were back home, shake (and fries) in hand, he was happy:

And I tickled him:

And it was just a wonderful ending to my perfect day....

Yes, I left something off my to-do list. I completely switched up my plans and the world didn't end. In fact, it was all sunshine and rainbows. And I LOVE sunshine and rainbows.

But not as much as I LOVE her.

I had the best day with you today.