Family Moment Monday-- Shopping with the girls....

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The Princesses!!

(as in Daughters of the Queen!!! -- and you know who that is :-)

This is not a super creative family activity.  In fact, you may be saying, "Rosemary, that's LAME," as my kids would say.

Anyone can go shopping!  It's true, but sometimes it can take an effort to get everyone to go at the same time!  My daughters and I love this so much we're thinking of planning to do it once a month.  After browsing for each of us we often stop in the middle of the mall and get a Starbucks or a pop and a pretzel.  I think it helps to build family solidarity, cements family bonds, and offers great opportunities for conversation.  With teens these opportunities don't always come easily.

I tried to get the timer to work on my camera for this picture so I could get in it too, but no luck.  We really did just do this this morning.  As usual, it was very fun and we wished we had more time.  (My daughters are now so used to my bringing my camera with me everywhere in order to get a photo for a post that they don't resist at all.  In fact, sometimes they suggest posts for me.)

Course, at other times, they say, "You're NOT going to put this on your blog, are you?"

Today they were OK with it, though.