Date Night=Sanity!

The laundry, the cleaning, Brevin, the calendar, money, time, exhaustion and work all play into reasons why date nights can get pushed off these days. But we have learned in our short 2 years of parenthood that Date Nights=Sanity! We don't have a set night of the week or really any major ground rules, we actually even talk about Brevin sometimes and how parenting is going for us both.

It is amazing though what going out to dinner can feel like-just us. Or how satisfying it is having a complete conversation-just us. Or laughing-just us. My favorite is making decisions on the fly on where to go or how to late to stay out-just us. If Heath and I didn't make this happen every month (or so)-just us, I am pretty sure we could become THOSE parents.

This latest date was a fun one! I sent an invite to Heath's co-worker, Steph so she could personally deliver it to his desk. I had OVERNIGHT (the only way to go!) care lined up for Brevin (Thanks Carstens!) and a fun "spin" to the night. I had 6 options of things to do on our date night all planned and ready to go-Heath just had to "spin" our destiny. It was hard though because once he saw ALL the options, he wanted to do them ALL. I encouraged him that we would have to hold off and leave some for other date nights. We ended up doing the following: Outback Steakhouse, mini-golfing at the Sculpture Garden, Comedy Sportz (Mike Hadley's return!) and dessert at Zeno's (mmmm!). We thought we would be out late, but nope. In bed by 11:30. We had a blast holding hands and just being together. The better part of the date for me was the morning-up at 8:00 (which IS sleeping in for us!), a run, to Panera for breakfast in the sunshine, reading our books, talking and reading some more. A GLORIOUS start to the day! We picked up Brevin around 11:00 and were racing in to scoop him up and start our fun family day, but later that night said to each other, "We really need to do this more often!!"