


What would make your senior year extra memorable?.Then we settled into the conversation with a few general, big-picture questions: We arrived early, were seated, and ordered our food and drinks. When the big day arrived, we got dressed up more than usual and headed out the door. We checked our calendars and picked a day that would work well for all three of us. Savannah Anne chose one of our favorite restaurants, Carrabba’s, for our date. And it was a good reminder of certain tasks for which we would need to prepare, including college applications, senior pictures, and a graduation ceremony.

But this time together was set aside to allow us to shower our daughter with some undivided parent-child attention while giving the three of us a better sense of her plans and goals for the coming year. We had no earth-shattering revelations or life-altering changes to discuss. This wasn’t just any old date-this was a senior year planning date! In June of 2013, my wife and I went on a date with our oldest daughter, Savannah Anne.
