Dayna Matthews is the name of the woman pictured. She is a mother to three young kids, and a wife to a man who is in the navy. Dayna works as a Dentist at "SmileCare" on Third Avenue, in New York City. She is a busy woman, considering she works three times a week, and the rest of the days is devoted taking care of her kids Dylan, age 2; Katherine, age 6; and Damon, age 11. Taking care of these kids is a full time job itself, while her husband is currently in Iraq, fighting for America. Dylan is at the age of the terrible twos, Katherine currently takes ballet class, and Damon is in the Little League with Pitcher as his main position. With this hectic schedule for her kids as a daily routine in her life, she rarely gets any time to herself.
It's Saturday afternoon, and the kids are at her mother-in-laws house, for she volunteered to babysit the kids, as it is her day off also. Dayna decides to take advantage of this time, and treat herself for a day of shopping. She ended up taking the subway, which she normally doesn't do, because for one thing, it's always a hassle getting the kids to and from somewhere, and also because she never liked the thought of taking public transportation. But with no kids around, and the convenience of the subway stopping just a few blocks away from the mall, she decided that today would be the perfect day for her to take public transportation.
She tried to spend her time peacefully at the mall, but every 30 minutes or so, Katherine would call her cell phone, complaining as to why her mother hadn't taken her along. "Katie honey, Mommy needs to buy Daddy's presents for when he comes home next week," she would lie. Dayna would always give her kids false hope that her husband Michael would be coming home soon, when she knows he wouldn't be home for another six months.
Dayna was shopping in Macy's, when Katherine had called her for the tenth time. She had decided that she should just go home now since she feels that she needs to get back to her kids. The only items that she bought for herself were two sweaters which were on sale. She was at the mall for five hours, but with the budget that she was on, she really couldn't find anything that was worth it. Because of the five hours of walking around the whole mall, she was exhausted, but she knew she still had to pick up her kids. She went to the Starbucks on the second level of the mall to buy a Caramel Frappacino for the caffeine that she needed to intake, to get her through the rest of the day. After, she proceeded to step back onto the Subway, to go to her mother-in-law's house to pick up her kids.
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