Saturday, July 31, 2021

Happy 17th Birthday to My Daughter, Haylee!!!

Wow, how the years have flown by!  My one and only daughter (in between 2 sons) turned 17 today!  Earlier in the week, I went ahead and gave her a big birthday basket full of skincare and makeup items that I’d been collecting for many weeks.  She was so excited at all the stuff she got!  It was the perfect gift for her this year, and she was very happy with it.

Haylee took yesterday and today off from work, so we did a little adventuring.  Yesterday, she and I and my upcoming birthday son (Hayden, turning 22 soon) took a road trip to Grapevine, TX to visit The British Emporium.  We loaded up on lots of goodies we haven’t had in a loooooong time.  Then I treated them both to lunch at Saladworks in nearby Irving, TX…a place we used to visit in VA, but this is the only location here in TX, and it’s so far away!  So that was nice, too.  I got her the fancy cupcakes she wanted from Sam’s Club and picked up a bundle of helium birthday balloons to surprise her with while she went out with her brother and his girlfriend to the mall and his girlfriend’s house to hang out for a while.  One of her friends went by there with some gifts, flowers, and a cake, so that was nice.  She also stopped by Sonic where she works, and they had a cake for her there, too!

Today, she slept late after such a long day, and then she said she wanted to go to the Tanger Outlets in far north Fort Worth in the Alliance area.  Another long drive!  We headed out and stopped at Buc-ees for lunch first.  Then we did the outlets, but it was so incredibly hot and humid today that it was nearly unbearable.  The deals were non-existent, too, so she didn’t find anything, and I just used some bonus coupons I had and hardly got anything, either.  Then we went back to Buc-ees to get a big Icee for the drive home and some banana pudding that Hayden requested, and we headed back.  I reminded her that there was a Cold Stone Creamery out there on the way home, so she wanted to stop off and see if they had any of the ice cream cupcakes that she loves so much.  They did!  I’d tried to get some at the Arlington location earlier in the week, but they didn’t have any, so I’m glad it worked out.  When we got home, we sang happy birthday, and she opened some gifts from Hayden’s girlfriend (she got an Instax instant camera she’s wanted for a while with some film and some makeup), so she was really excited about that.  Then they took her out to dinner.  Not a bad weekend at all!  Last year during the pandemic shutdown, she was not in a good place mentally/emotionally, and she never even came out of her room for us to sing or have cake, and it sat out all night.  We ended up throwing it out.  So this was a big improvement, and we enjoyed our day together.  It’s her last birthday as a minor, so I’m glad it was a pleasant memory for both of us.

Happy 17th Birthday, baby girl! <3

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