kids

daddy daughter dance

erin

Feb 4, 2022 — 1 min read

Tonight was the daddy daughter dance. Olivia has only been to the dance once with Emma, and tonight she was going to get to go with Braden by herself. Except... he tested positive for covid again last week. 😭

She was a little upset, so instead I took her out to dinner just the two of us. She got all dressed up in a fancy new dress, I curled her hair and let her put on lipstick.

I love Outback, but Braden does not. A couple months ago we took the girls for the first time and Olivia wanted to know why we don't go there more. So tonight... we went to Outback.

And I let her get dessert...

Luckily there is another daddy daughter dance at the end of the month, so they are signed up for that one. 🤞

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