Mother Daughter Time

Kaylyn and I finally had our mother daughter get-away. I would have liked to have done it closer to her 13th birthday but our busy lives didn't allow. I did the same with Anna and plan on doing it with Libby when she turns 13. It is a weekend (or in Kaylyn's case, 2 weekdays) where we work through Passport2Purity.
First we went and seen Monsters vs. Aliens at the IMAX theater. That was a lot of fun. Neither of us had seen an IMAX movie before.

Warning: the entire movie makes a laughing stock out of our government. I find that to be distasteful and disrespectful. Probably not a good message to send our kids that our leaders are a bunch of incompetent misfits. That being said I don't know if younger kids would even get that but it isn't any different than so many of today's sitcoms making dad's look like ignorant beasts who need their wives to keep them in line and tell them how to behave. Hmm I wonder why society is breaking down, look at our "role models". Ok I will get off my soapbox now.

Back to our getaway.


Then after lunch at Panera Bread we went to Fredrick Meijer Gardens to see the butterflies.


Thank goodness Kaylyn knows how to take pictures of herself so well. LOL! Look how well she centered that picture without being able to see the view finder.

Kaylyn thought it would have been funny if the fish ate the butterfly. That made me chuckle. Then here is another funny Kaylyn story. We were looking at the flowers and Kaylyn says out loud, "Something smells weird over here." I turn and she is standing with her back to a man who looked shall we say a little un-kept. So I am now embarrassed trying to quietly explain to Kaylyn that she can't say things like that out loud. As I am I over hear another woman saying, "Wow. That really does stink!" To her friend as she is smelling an odd looking plant....


Turns out God designed the plant in the picture above to smell like dead fish to attract flies. Wasn't the man after all. LOL! It still was a good lesson for my dear daughter to think before she speaks though. Kaylyn and I were both laughing about it.


The Passport2Purity program suggests giving your daughter a special gift at the end of the weekend to remember the time you had together. We decided to let the girls get their ears pierced at the end of the weekend. I tie it in with the lesson they have learned about how once you have lost your innocence you can't loose it again. Once you have pierced your ears for the first time you can't pierce them again for the first time and if you decide you didn't want to pierce them you are still left with a small scar.

Kaylyn was so nervous to get them done that she gave herself an upset stomach. She has been wanting them pierced for forever but the thought of possible pain was about all she could handle. Wow was she relieved after the first ear to find out it didn't even hurt. Then she started talking non-stop. Open the flood gates. LOL!


It was a wonderful time. We both really enjoyed ourselves.