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Day with Lily
L had a Lagoon Day at school that required expensive tickets, and she decided not to buy them. The school basically gave her a day off, so we planned a day together doing…
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Holi Festival of Colors
Our Mother-Daughter Date this month was taking L to her first festival! I haven’t been back to the Festival of Colors since 17 years ago in college with friends. It’s a celebration of…
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Harry Potter Escape Room
For our first Mother-Daughter Date this year, we booked a wizard themed escape room! This was our first escape room together, so it took us a while to figure out what to look…
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Year of Mother-Daughter Experiences 2025
Daughter is turning 14 this year! Not sure how, but our “Dates” become more fun every year and she has grown to expect and love these, and refuses to have them stop! I’ve…
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Year of Mother-Daughter Dates 2024
In-depth inspiration for this year’s ideas here. Here are the Mother-Daughter Date ideas for this year (click on each title to check it out in more detail): Here are some photos to help…
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Scrapbooking Mother-Daughter Date
This was our date for November from our Year of Mother-Daughter Dates, but I’ve been sick for the last 4 weeks and finally felt well enough to be out of bed for hours…
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Picnic Mother-Daughter Date
L and I were having an impromptu sleepover when we woke up in the middle of the early morning and started laughing our heads off planning this picnic. It’s been overdue since June,…
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September Everyday Moments
This month was full of the out-of-the ordinary. We did things we don’t normally do, like running in the middle of a rain storm… and it felt magical. We got life changing news…
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Mad Science Mother-Daughter Date
Our July mother-daughter date this year was at Little Beakers, a science lab for kids. I made a reservation for their earliest slot (noon), and booked a 2.5 hour open lab. The place…
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Mad World
We’ve had some unprecedented events lately. L’s middle school made national news from a student walkout protesting furries, then being targeted with bomb threats (hoaxes) nearly every day this week. The one day…
