Date night, ahhh how I love the sound of it. Often times the thought of date night is the light at the end of the kid-wrangling, errand running, mess cleaning, answering 763 questions per day tunnel. I love my our three children and count myself blessed to spend my days training and loving them BUT I need some grown up time too. My favorite grown up is my hubby. We still date as often as we can. For many years we've avoided movies during our dates opting to enjoy some activity that allows plenty of time to talk without interruptions. You know what I mean - the moment we attempt to have a conversation one or more of our offspring decides to have a life threatening emergency (well, it feels like an emergency to the kiddo). More on this subject later.
A few months ago we decided to mix it up a little. We saw a movie and much to our surprise, it was fun. We opted for the caramel corn and a large icee. I spent a few minutes searching for tiny gold flecks in the bucket of caramel corn - reasoning that since we paid $10 for it there must surely be some hidden treasure in there. Nope. Just golden brown, sticky, caramel-y, calorie laden goodness. We savored every bite of that yummy confection without pint sized beggars clamoring for just one more bite. The room was dim and we raised the arm rest between our seats. We snuggled up without little ones trying to pry us apart long enough to squeeze in between us. We whispered, we cuddled, we ate, we laughed, and I think that we may have annoyed the people around us. We sat much closer than we could have in a restaurant - that was my favorite part.
What about you? What are some of your date night favorites?
My favorite date night so far has been our visit to Kimono's Sushi Restaurant in the Dolphin Hotel followed by a fabulous Harry Connick Jr. concert. We flirted at dinner and got dressed up for the show where we laughed and cuddled for two hours with no children. Priceless doesn't begin to describe how much it meant to me to have Alex all to myself for one night.
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