Date night--in the afternoon

Today Hubby and I were able to go on a date.  It's a bigger deal than you might think!  Not having any family around to watch our kids for free means we rarely get to go out by ourselves.

Love him!

  Before we moved we had a date night co-op going on with two other families.  One set of parents would watch all the children while the other two sets of parents went out for about 4 hours.  It would switch every month so that each set of parents was able to go out 2 out of the 3 months.  I was so thankful for that.  Out of the three couples, none of us had parents or grandparents anywhere close.  So anytime we wanted to go out we ended up paying more for a sitter than we spent on ourselves for the date.  So this co-op was a real blessing for us.

When we moved I assumed that it would take a while to find other families that we could do this with.  Not only does it take time to meet new families, but there is also finding people that we would trust our children with for four hours.  Luckily, one of the families at church wanted to do it with us.  We thought maybe another family would want to, but I ended up feeling like I was pressuring the Mom into doing it, so I dropped it.  Not that I blame her--she has two girls.  When it was their turn to watch all the kids they would get an extra 7 girls dumped on them.  Not the fairest trade off!  And doing it with just one other family, we decided that we would like to actually go out once a month.  So on two different weekends we trade kids and each of us get to go out each month.  I'm very excited!

I know you're desperately wondering what we did during our few hours to ourselves.  We went to Whole Foods!  No kidding!  I mean, we also used a gift card to go to PF Changs, my most favorite restaurant ever.  Then we went to Whole Foods, just to look around.  We had never been in before and figured going without kids first would probably be a good idea.  Cool store.  After spending $5 on powdered sugar and $7 for some cut fruit (that was amazing by the way) I decided that we could start shopping there if we didn't have to pay rent.  So we are now actively looking for an empty house to squat in.  I hear you can do that now.  We also stopped by Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory.  Not exactly Sees Candy, but it'll do.  We got chocolate to go and then went to a book store, splurged and actually bought ourselves new books.  Then we sat outside with a coffee and our chocolate and read for a few minutes.  It would have been longer, but our friends watching the girls texted and said that our neighbor had come over and was acting a little weird, asking for Hubby.  Turns out she needed a little counseling.  I blame Hubby's skills in that department for our date being cut short.  Luckily it was only by about 30 minutes!

This is how we're most likely to act when no one else is watching

Overall, it was just a low key, somewhat cheap date.  But I'm so excited that we get to do this every month.  Time spent with him is the best way to spend a day!