Day Out
Wrote a post the other night at about midnight that vanished. Will it ever reappear? It was so late at night that what I wrote seems but the blur of a lost dream, and so I begin again… had a day out with my son yesterday. It was the second time ever since my daughter was born. My husband took her to see his mom, leaving me and my son to visit his new school and meet his new teacher. It didn’t take long, and the dark clouds were converging onto the city of Lakeland, FL, so running over to Winter Haven to ride the roller coasters at Cypress Gardens was out of the question. We headed down to the main public library at Lake Morton. Logan played a Clifford the Big Red Dog game on the computor and I chose some bedtime story material.
The dark skies persisted and we decided to explore the Lakeland Square Mall. I told my son he needed a new winter coat anyway, as he had out grown his old one. We hit the Burlington Coat Factory- a place I have never before been. It is chock o block full off clothes and STUFF. I ask a clerk- do you sell coats here? She laughed- “That was a joke, right?” Uh, no. We found the coats at the back of the store in an eerie dark area. Luckily my son is not a picky soul and anything blue and warm would do, so we left quickly.
Lakeland Square Mall used to have a Disney Store- I know, because I was there the day it was closing- that was the only place I went, after a tour of the mall& lunch in the food court, we decided that aside from the Walden Bookstore, this mall did not have much going for it- and we left, coat in bag, headed home and curled up together on the couch to watch the superhero movie ZOOM and eat cookie dough ice cream-
“Can we have tomorrow together too?”
I love that boy!