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12/16/2003 Archived Entry: "the girls"

Up until the head injury (detailed in the post below) Tabitha and I have had a pretty good start of the week together. Last night she and I hopped the bus to go do some shopping. We went to Barnes & Noble where I let her pick a book out (a Barbie book that is waaaay beneath her ability) while I searched for a good Christmas book. We have two Christmas Eve. traditions in our family. First, Tabitha is allowed to open one gift from us on Christmas Eve. and it is always new pajamas. Second, her bedtime story that night is always "Twas the Night Before Christmas." This year I decided to add another tradition. In addition to "Twas the Night...." Tabitha will receive one new Christmas story with her pajamas to be read on Christmas Eve at bedtime. So that's what I picked up last night. I had to hide it from her by wrapping it in her sweatshirt I was carrying until after I paid and I just kept hoping an employee wouldn't think I was trying to steal the book.

After B&N, we went to Michaels so I could get more supplies for my Holiday cards. Which, btw, as of tonight, I am completely done! I sent out almost all of our cards yesterday but ran out of supplies, hence the stop last night. So today I made the last 14 cards and they will go out in tomorrow's mail.

After Michaels we went to Target and Mervyn's in search of flannel sheets for Tabitha's bed that I saw advertised, but to no advail so off to dinner we went. Chili's was our choice since it was the easiest to walk to before we headed home.

Today, Tabitha and I cleared out of the house so Chris could do some studying for his finals tomorrow. There wasn't anywhere we needed to go, so Tabitha chose for us to just go to the mall. I had to return a skirt to Macy's and while we were there we took at look at jeans for Tabi. She found a pair she absolutely adored so we got those. We also found another Care Bear Cousin at Hot Topic for Tabitha. That's all we bought, we mostly just wandered around and just enjoyed being at the mall. We're going to go out tomorrow morning as well so Chris can study some more. I think we're going to go to Downtown Disney to go to Build-a-Bear. Tabitha wants to get her bear a stocking. I'll have to find a way to distract her though so I can purchase the items to go into the stocking on Christmas morning. I drew the line at putting out stockings for all her Polly Pocket dolls, though :)