"A mother is the truest friend we have…”
~Washington Irving
This is my precious mom. She lives a short 20 minutes away, and we see each other at all the birthdays, holidays and basketball games, but have a hard time making time
"just for us." So I have decided to start a little event called,
"Donna and Sharon's Excellent Adventures!"
Once a month, we are going to explore the city of Dallas.
~Washington Irving
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| Mom and me making Apple Crisp on Christmas Day |
"just for us." So I have decided to start a little event called,
"Donna and Sharon's Excellent Adventures!"
Once a month, we are going to explore the city of Dallas.
Coppell, our "Leave it to Beaver" community, is a great place to raise kids, but we definitely lack visually stimulating architecture and unique culinary businesses.
Bishop Arts has it ALL!
We started with lunch at Oddfellows, a modern day diner of sorts, but SOOO much more hip than the Local Diner in Coppell~ and you will swoon over the coffee!!!
We ate the most amazing spinach salad and fried green tomato sandwich~ YES! Fried Green Tomatoes!!
Check out the cool outdoor coffee bar~ A DREAM!
The piano is located right outside just in case you get the urge to run your fingers up and down the keys!
After a walk around this little area of precious shops, we stumbled upon this treasure....
The Soda Gallery is the most nostalgic collection of new "old" bottled sodas~
Mom and I found great "talking points" for story-telling as we looked around...
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As we sipped on an Orange Crush, we relived Mom's days as a little girl hanging out with her daddy, J.L. Newsom, at his Cotton Gin. She would hang out with the guys at the Gin, watch them play dominoes, get a nickel for the soda machine from her daddy and drink an Orange Crush. When I came along, I went to the gin to hang out, too, and drank Orange Crush out of a clear bottle just like the one we're drinking from in the picture.
But Mom remembered drinking her Orange Crush out of a brown bottle.
Robert, the manager of the shop, heard Mom mention the brown bottle, led us to the back of the store and showed us this vintage Orange Crush in a brown bottle~
just as mom remembered! We were delighted!
They have a wonderful collection of vintage pieces throughout the place.
Take the one you love to the Soda Shop for some terrific story telling and memory making!
You might even consider starting a little event called
Excellent Adventures with your mom!
{Mother's Day is May 8th}
So here is a little printable from the TomKat Studio so you can get a head start making something special for your mom~ Next week I'm featuring more Mother's Day goodness!
We started with lunch at Oddfellows, a modern day diner of sorts, but SOOO much more hip than the Local Diner in Coppell~ and you will swoon over the coffee!!!
We ate the most amazing spinach salad and fried green tomato sandwich~ YES! Fried Green Tomatoes!!
The piano is located right outside just in case you get the urge to run your fingers up and down the keys!
Mom and I found great "talking points" for story-telling as we looked around...
But Mom remembered drinking her Orange Crush out of a brown bottle.
Robert, the manager of the shop, heard Mom mention the brown bottle, led us to the back of the store and showed us this vintage Orange Crush in a brown bottle~
just as mom remembered! We were delighted!
Take the one you love to the Soda Shop for some terrific story telling and memory making!
You might even consider starting a little event called
Excellent Adventures with your mom!
{Mother's Day is May 8th}
So here is a little printable from the TomKat Studio so you can get a head start making something special for your mom~ Next week I'm featuring more Mother's Day goodness!
Yay!! I love this! So glad you came over to my hood, but very sorry I couldn't join in your adventure! Thanks for sharing about the neighborhood that I love so much!!
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