Mommy and “Starr” Day
When Starr was younger we used to have “Mommy and Starr Day” once or twice a year. It wasn’t associated with any other holiday or birthday and I’m pretty sure that one of Starr’s rules was that it had to be during the school year because I would take her out of class for the day and we would spend it together.
We would pick something to do, it was usually cheap, bowling, going to the zoo, out to lunch, rent a movie and we would almost always do facials and paint our nails. I wasn’t the activity that mattered. It was just us girls hanging out. No school, no work, no friends knocking on the door. Never on a weekend, because weekends were just meh, Mommy and Starr Day had to be special.
Starr remembers these days very fondly. She brought them up the other day telling me how much she loved them. I think we stopped having official Mommy and Starr Days when she was in middle school, but we will still set aside time that is just ours from time to time.
It’s funny because it was always just the two of us anyway, but I think that taking a special break from the day-to-day and focusing on each other once in a while really strengthened our relationship.
The note has nothing to do with this post. I just found it while looking for a picture to post and it made me smile!!
I want to create memories like this for my daughters. And I just love the letter. There’s a drawer in my kitchen that holds all my children’s handwritten love notes to me. So cute!
Hugs and Mocha,
Stesha
They are cute! I wish I had a drawer full, she preferred to give me hugs…which I loved!! But you can’t stash them away to revisit in the future!
Well, something tells me that note DOES have to do with those days – if nothing more than the warm, fuzzy feeling it created in Starr’s heart toward her mommy.
Aren’t those the best days? I need to do them more. Thanks for the very good reminder.
P.S. I just read an article about something like this in April’s issue of “Real Simple.” It inspired me to take off my “mom” hat and just take a day off for myself and a kiddo! (And then I forgot again until you said something. I needed that kick in the pants.)
.-= Robynn’s Ravings´s last blog ..The Boyz of Summer =-.
Thank you! I hope you have fun taking a day off with your kids! Now that you’ve been kicked
, I am sure that you will remember that you want to do it!!