Wednesday With Amber

Amber and I spent some time together today!

The first thing we did was to take in a movie.......

We both love movies and the guy selling us our tickets was an even bigger movie fan.

We had meant to see the new Resse Witherspoon film but, come to find out, it only shows once a day and that's at 1:30 which would so not work for us.

He ran down the list of what would be starting soon and sold us on Victoria and Abdul.

Assuring us that we had only missed the 17 minutes of previews, we purchased our tickets.

As we were lingering a bit over a poster, he called out, "Hurry on! It starts in one minute!"

I like that little guy!

We loved the movie.

While Amber usually goes for a more action filled flick, Victoria and Abdul was excellent.

Since we saw an early show, we had time to do a little shopping.

First stop was a little boutique called Griffin and Grace and is a favorite of Amber's.

They have some very nice things.

This is one of the shops at Willow Bend Market.

Starbucks was just a few doors away so we did what we seldom get time to do -

sit and sip our drinks together and nibble and visit.

It felt good.

We had a little extra time so we went in the mall nearby and browsed through a few shops there.

I love days like this. Calm, peaceful, no sense of urgency or need of accomplishments.

We simply strolled through our day.

I went with her to pick the quads up from school.

It still seems to surprise me how fast Amber has grown up.

Doesn't seem that long ago that she was a little girl herself.

Now a talented free lance writer and mother of four!

Would you believe we arrived in the pick up line early??

I know! Neither of us are known as early birds!

The kids were so excited to see me and not one of them asked me where Granddad was!

That's amazing. Most of the time that's the very first thing they say!

I think they were missing MeeMaw!

I went back home with them for their after school routine.

They each carry in their back packs and empty their lunchboxes.

If they haven't eaten all their lunch, then that's their afternoon snack. If they have - they get 'new food' to snack on. I assured them I would help them take care of any leftovers.

Amber packs the best school lunches I have ever seen.

I was stuffed by the time I left!

I stuck around long enough to read them a book and do some 'papers' with them.

They love to cut up paper and make notes to give people. 

Logan made one for me to give to Aunt Ruth Ann.

Since Mike works from home, every afternoon Kailey goes up to her 'office' to work for awhile.

She has a tray table she uses as her desk and practises her writing and such.

I remember when I was her age, I loved to write on papers. I would keep every piece of paper I could find and put them in an old purse and pretend I was a secretary.

All four are loving kindergarten and doing well.

It has been a really good day.

I was home by 5:00 and Louis Dean and I have acted like a couple of retired people......

we have watched some TV, sat in the gazebo while we did our reading and generally just puttered around. I set the den table with my new Debbie Mumm plates and spruced things up in there a bit.

I am enjoying the routine of home.

I know it's early but I think I am just about ready to go to bed!