GNO
Anyone who has a kid between 5 and 15 will know what a "GNO" is....a girls night out according to the Hannah Montana song! Last night Grace and I had a GNO, or at least we tried to. The plan was for all 4 of us to go out to eat but I got home from the store after 5:00 and it was too late to attempt it at that point (Ethan was, as usual, very whiney and needed to be in bed early). So I was irritated and Scott said "why don't you and Grace go?" Great idea! It had actually never crossed my mind. I was craving Olive Garden and Grace loves their virgin strawberry daquiris so it was a perfect plan. Except that it was a Saturday night at the height of Christmas shopping season and there wasn't even a parking place. Scott asked if I went in to see how long the wait was....there literally WASN'T a parking space so I couldn't even go in and ask. So I thought fast and figured the one place there wouldn't be a long wait was Cracker Barrel! And I was right! So Grace and I headed to C.B. and had dinner and finished it with a frozen mug caramel sundae for me and hot fudge for her. It was wonderful. And the best part? Singing at the top of our lungs the whole car ride to the entire soundtrack of High School Musical 3 and Taylor Swift! We divided the HSM soundtrack into parts...I got stuck singing the boys' parts everytime, but luckily, I knew them all!! (I might be the only 33 year old who actually knows every single word to all 3 HSM movie soundtracks!) On the way home we had made it all the way through the 12 songs on HSM so we switched to Taylor Swift. There's something that warms a momma's heart about hearing her 8 year old belt out "...so tell your friends that I'm obsessive and crazy, that's fine, I'll tell mine that you're gay! And by the way...." Gotta love country music. Of course, it's not the best thing when your child is trying to pick a song to sing in the talent show. "Mommy, how 'bout 'Before He Cheats'?" Ummmm, no. "What about 'Picture to Burn?'" (here are some of those words: "I hate that stupid old pick-up truck you never let me drive, you're a redneck heartbreak who's really bad at lying, so watch me strike a match on all our wasted time, as far as I'm concerned you're just another picture to burn!!" Not exactly talent show material. Ha!!! One thing is for sure--the apple doesn't fall far from the tree! She loves to sing loud to the radio in the car!! I was driving with her last night and thinking about how fun it's going to be when she's a teenager! I hope she still wants a GNO with her mommy then!
