Friday was the last day of the Spring school holidays, here in New Zealand. A day without boys. Dash was off to play at a friend's house; Scrag was off to pre-school (which ran through the holidays).
It was a chance for a mother-daughter day with my one and only Miss Fab.
We don't get those very often. Usually there is a boy or two lurking around, completely uninterested in shopping or cafes or manicures.
So this was our chance.
Miss Fab recorded the whole thing in her special book. Her words and pictures...
We headed to Ponsonby, a place we've never been together. I wanted to check out my favourite furniture store, Early Settler. After 10 years of marriage our bed is due to be replaced. And it needs to be a King Size because of all the visitors we get. A Queen bed just doesn't accomodate five wriggling bodies.Here's what I drooled over...
And here's what we came away with...
A Bird Bath. I got it for Mr G, because he always talked about his Grandad feeding the birds, and sadly his Grandad passed away last Sunday. {We love you Great-Grandad John. We'll miss you}
I saw this cute super-reduced cast iron bird bath and thought of my sad hubby and so I bought it for him, to go in our front garden which I have been working on. Sadly Mr G was not all that impressed. He called it an ashtray, cos it's kinda small. Doesn't he know that size isn't everything? It's small but perfectly formed. I'm sure that deep down he appreciates it.
Anyhow moving on...
Continuing our girly morning we walked along in the sunshine, holding hands, looking for a nice cafe. We walked for miles. And Miles. Darn it, I never realised Ponsonby Road was sooooo long!
Then we spotted Rocket Kitchen. Mmmmmm. Do they do anything gluten free??
Oh yes they do!! A decadent chocolate cake and some friands and fanciers that looked divine.
No, said fussy Miss Fab. Not interested. I sadly waved goodbye to the friands and we carried on walking.
Now we were thirsty. Ahhh, here's a sort-of cafe. Nothing gluten free, but lets buy a drink, said Miss Fab.
So we sat and drank our chilled drinks in the Spring sunshine and then turned around and headed back to the car. As we passed Rocket Kitchen, I peered longingly at the friands and fanciers and then my heart leapt as Miss Fab shouted, STOP! Let's go in!
So we did.
And got some delectable citrus and almond fanciers. Mmmmmm.
Then we found a bench seat and ate our treats. The sunshine did its thing and then Miss Fab pulled from her pocket, a balloon. She tried to blow it up as I nibbled my fancier and finally gave up and handed me the gooby thing.
"Can you blow this up mum?" she asked sweetly.
Oh yay. I love gooby balloons, don't you?
I wiped the goob off (telling myself, she's my baby, it's baby girl goob, not so bad) and blew up the balloon.
My fun-loving girl then spent 10 minutes chasing her balloon while I snapped pics of her. She is so cool, my girl.
Then I had a brilliant idea. Manicures!! Lets go to St Lukes mall and get our nails done!
Miss Fab squealed with excitement. She is a feisty girl with incredible upper body strength, but you could never call her a tomboy. She loves all things beautiful.
We drove to the Mall with the radio up loud, and I sang along with Tina:
You're simply the Best (girl in the world)
Better than all the rest (of the little girls)
Better than anyone
Anyone I've ever met...
She loved it. (And said I was a good singer. LOL)
But Horrors. At the Mall the manicures were $25 each!! It would cost us fifty bucks to get our nails done together. Yikes. In England it cost us a fiver.
What to do. What to do??!!
"I know," I said, "Lets go and get some nail polish from the $2 shop and we can do our own nails at home!"
Yes, she thought that was a great idea. So we chose three colours each...
Her: Fluoro yellow, fuchsia and hot pink. Luvly!
Me: Silvery white, pale pearly pink and shimmery pastel green.
I set up a nail bar outside, made us mochachinos in my best coffee cups (from sachets, but still) and we did nails. Fun.
Afterwards, with her mummy-love tank all full to the brim, Miss Fab pronounced our morning the best day ever.
Yay for a lovely morning with the Best Girl in the World. xx
Have you ever done a Mother-Daughter Day??