{"id":590933,"date":"2008-09-16T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2008\/09\/16\/special-evening-with-niece\/"},"modified":"2008-09-16T14:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T22:11:00","slug":"special-evening-with-niece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2008\/09\/16\/special-evening-with-niece\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Evening with Niece"},"content":{"rendered":"

For our niece’s ("P") 13th birthday, DH and I purchased tickets to a "VIP Shopping Night" at a local mall.  <\/p>\n

The evening began with a small dinner and party for our other niece "K", who had just turned 10.  She spent the day with her dad (my brother), horseback riding, so this was a nice end to an active day for her.<\/p>\n

‘P’ and I went to the mall and entered one of three private lounges.  We received a bag with a $20.00 gift certificate to any place in the mall, a travel jewelry case, and a list of all the stores participating in the VIP Shopping Night.  These stores had appetizers, giveaways, contests, and special discounts for the "VIP Shoppers", (we wore a wristband).<\/p>\n

The private lounges had a dessert table, and a coffee\/tea table.  Here we are in one of the lounges, making a plan for our shopping journey.
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\nWe hit all the stores she wanted to go to first, then sat to watch a runway show.  We went to another lounge, and another runway show.  Each model held a little placard so you could see which store offered that outfit.<\/p>\n

My two favorite memories of the night:<\/p>\n

1) We entered a costume jewelry story called "Gild" (or "Gilt", I don’t recall).  They had an appetizer table at the entrance.  ‘P’ went to the table and picked up a large cracker and cheese.  As we walked to the center of the store, I glanced at ‘P’ at just the same moment she noticed something.  Her eyes bugged wide open and she froze.  When I looked to see what she saw, I started cracking up.  It was a table laden with fruit and a chocolate fountain!  She took one look at her cracker and said, "Do you want this?"<\/p>\n

2)  On the way to the mall, she asked me if I listened to Country music.  Typically, I have Contemporary Christian in the car, but I let her toggle between two Country stations.  She kept telling me about her favorite song.  It is a song by Kelly Pickler, and it is about loving yoursef, and being beautiful inside.  She kept trying to find it so I could hear it.  Well, guess what was the very last song we heard while driving home?  The song ended as I was pulling into her Dad’s driveway.  That was a perfect way to end a special night and I thank God for the gift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For our niece’s ("P") 13th birthday, DH and I purchased tickets to a "VIP Shopping Night" at a local mall.  The evening began with a small dinner and party for our other niece "K", who had just turned 10.  She spent the day with her dad (my brother), horseback riding, so this was a nice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-fun"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}