Date Night

This is a wonderful thing to look forward too, mainly because it involves some conversations that dont include cartoons or talking about what happened in the latest episode of Dora the Explorer! It is usually a time to eat food without having to stop halfway through to clean someone up or to get up and get someone a drink that they just spilled. It also doesn't involve a compromise of what the punishment will be if all or most of the vegetables are not eaten within the next 3 minutes. The best part about it is the fact that I can eat dessert without sharing it with three other little people!

On the rare occasion that we do go on a date, we get to visit certain places that kids dont usually go to, like the movies, a nice restaurant or the temple. It becomes less stressful to drive through traffic without screaming and fighting kids in the back seat. The best part about is NOT holding hands... not holding hands of little kids that like to dart in front of a car as you attempt to cross the street, not holding hands of little ones that like to grab certain expensive items off the shelves at the store and NOT holding hands of kids so that you dont lose them in a crowded store... but holding your husbands hands as you start your date night!

Of course there is still a compromise... where to go, what to do, should we eat, what about dessert? All these questions are asked when the kids are with us and when they aren't with us but it seems like its easier to choose without thinking about the family friendly places, or if they have a 'potty' that is somewhat cleaner for those little ones that dont like to go when they really, REALLY need to go. Or if they have a kids menu,that has healthy choices!

Date nights mean watching movies that you actually want to see, not having to cover someone's eyes at the 'kissing' scenes or having that awful sensation running up your spine when your little one has heard a 'bad' word, or having to get up a million times to take each kid to the potty and stand in line for what seems like a hour each time you do go. It simply means.... watching a movie!

Along with date night you get to talk to the person your married to... not about bills, or kids, or what the kids did today, or worrying about the next thing to do on your calendar... date night means a real conversation .... about anything..... I wish we had more nights like this.....but even though we dont get date nights every week or even every other week.. it just makes us more appreciative of the time that we do get together... whenever we get it!