Birthday Date

I so needed a break from the kids it wasn't funny.  I was afraid that since Tristan still had his cough that we weren't going to be able to go on our date, because I wasn't sure if my parents thought he was still contagious... but they said they would watch them!  Hot diggity!

We put the kids down for their naps and were going to take off after that.  They haven't been napping that long lately, so we figured that we'd have plenty of time!  Of course, the day that we would dare have plans they sleep SUPER late.  Like, we woke them up because it was starting to get too late.  We hopped in the car and we were off to Grandma and Don's.  The kids were really excited to be there.  We pretty much dumped them off and left.  We went to Target and did some Christmas shopping sans kids.  It's SO MUCH easier trying to look for things when they're not demanding to keep going.  Also, it takes the surprise out of things when they see you buying things for them.  We found this Dinosaur Train set for Dude that we thought he'd love... and it wasn't super expensive either!  Double score!  We picked up a few more Christmas decorations, and Christmas ornaments.  I enjoy the fact that my Mom got us ornaments every year, so I would like to continue on that tradition.  Then, we had to hot foot it over to our movie.

Ready for date night!

We ended up watching Skyfall and I gorged myself on theater popcorn.  It. was. awesome!  The Bond movie was a lot more serious and dark than I'm used to Bond movies being.  It was good, but definitely dark.  Much better than Quantum of Solace, but I'm thinking that Aladdin 2 was better than Quantum of Solace and that's saying something...

Anyhoo, half way through the movie I really started missing the kids.  I know I know I was just ranting and raving about how much I needed some time away, but I guess that was all the time I needed away. It's strange that even though they were driving me bat shit crazy not even 24 hours ago, that I could miss them that intensely.  After that movie got out I called my mom to make sure everything was going all right.  It was a much longer movie than I had anticipated, so I wanted to make sure that we had enough time to still grab some dinner.

It was nice just going out Gaetan and I.  These little dates are great reminders of why we work together so well, and why there isn't anybody else that I would ever choose.  I don't know if marriage is supposed to be this easy, but I'm glad it is for us.  Most of the time we are so busy with the kids its hard to just sit and have us time, but when we do its nice to know that we still like each other and want to hang out together.  :)  It's also really nice just having to feed yourself... and while your food is hot!  haha.

This date night was just what I needed to recoup and restart.  I felt such a different drive this morning towards everything.  It's amazing what a little time for yourself will do... and not feeling guilty about taking it either.  You NEED that time... it makes me a better person, wife and Momma.  I know it does. So a huge thank you to my parents for watching our little boogers... :)  And a thank you to my darling husband who was so excited to go on a date with his ever so pregnant crazy wife.

JVG