Date with daughter at Denny's...

Denny's Restaurant New Lynn

Yesterday got to spend some time with our middle child i.e. mother/daughter time at Dennys which happens to be our fave family restaurant for desserts, downtime or celebrating.

With the upcoming weekend ball season and our eldest busy sorting out all the requirements of making it special in it being the last ball as a senior in high school, it gave me some time to reflect on how quickly time goes by and before you know it, our children become adults and then have families of their own.

So having a special time to check on how things are or to just hang out provides special memories going forward and a time to chill and take time out of busy schedules to reconnect. It's especially important with teens both male and female to check in and see how things are going instead of assuming that all is well.

Thinking of making this time even more regular as we do with church attendance, attending regular work meetings, occasional family meetings and other meetings that we often can 'park' our families needs to fulfil other commitments that often aren't that important.

Now looking forward to scheduling these in for my children and showing appreciation for all that we learn as a family...