We have some good friends here that we have started trading date
nights with. We are too cheap to pay for a babysitter, and Katelyn
isn't quite old enough to watch herself :) We trade off when we can
with them and with summer plans it might be a bit more rare that we get
out on dates with just the two of us.
David is always hesitant leaving Katelyn with someone/anyone mostly because he is gone all the time with work and hardly gets to see her. The last two weeks have been TERRIBLE because the audit he is on was crammed into this two week time frame, so this team they have is working all day and all night. With just the one car, I drive David to the metro station in the morning and he commutes that way, and then I pick him up when he's ready at the metro station again. This is usually fine, but lately he goes in at 7 and comes home around 10...tonight its 11:30 :( So Katelyn either goes to bed way too late, or gets woken up and then we have to get her back to sleep after I pick him up. So David doesn't get to see much of Katelyn lately and he doesn't see much of me either...except for when we fall asleep talking about each other's days and when we roll around in our sleep and stop in the perfect position and breathe heavy sleeping bad-smelling breaths that we wake each other up and tell the other to stop breathing or roll over with a polite pat on the bum.
So I always look forward to these dates and am excited to drop Katelyn off with her friends and sneak out when she's having fun and hopefully doesn't notice I am gone. I am with her all day every day and while I love that little girly, I also love some alone time with my boy!
David usually drags his feet and tries to convince me to take Katelyn on our date with us, but he puts up with it and tries harder and harder each time to not worry about Katelyn so much and to enjoy our dates.
We have had a lot of temple dates and it has been so refreshing to go! It is farther away than we are used to, but close enough to go still.
The temple is really pretty and it isn't crooked in
real life :) I get to sit right next to David during the sessions witch
is different, but a nice perk to this temple! We are glad we have been
able to go!
We went to a dance one night and David only went because I wanted to go. There was ice cream so he thought he could dance to a song and then enjoy the ice cream the rest of the night. I have seen him dance like nobody's watching even when people are watching. He can be a fearless dancer, but he just wasn't feeling it that night :) He said that working the last job he had has made him a less exciting person. That job took a lot out of him! He suffered through enough with that job and I am doing my part to get him back to his silly ol' self again.
Another super fun date we had was an Amazing Race. There were nine different couples that competed for the glory of first place and we all had our own team color and shirts to make it official. (Some people thought we were on the real show and we had to be sure to tell them that we weren't and that the real show probably would not be using itty bitty cheap cameras to film the show.) David was convinced that the couple planning the race had too big of an advantage over the rest of us. I was in it to win it, but David was just there to have fun and take it easy. His competitiveness wasn't there, and some of you know that sometimes this is a good thing and sometimes it isn't. David is becoming known as the Rule Nazi with some people and is trying to not be so passionate during games and things so he doesn't hurt people's feelings. He is getting better at not being the murderer of the games and went for the laid back strategy with this game. We ended up in a tie with the couple that planned it for last and we were okay with that...mostly. The competitive part of me still wishes we would have done better, but there were no hurt feelings so we were all happy. We had tasks all around town from dancing with strangers and teaching them the Monkey's song/dance, Geo-caching, speed eating frozen yogurt, counting around 1500 mail boxes at the post office and trying to count while others are counting aloud, washing windows for strangers, chopping wood (we were terrible at this!), finding a book with an author with the same last name, making a pyramid of paint cans and putting them back where they go (why wouldn't Home Depot want 9 pyramids left in their store?), finding, memorizing, and reciting a high school's long mission statement (we did this one wrong), and at the end of all this we made some friends and still loved each other at the end of it! There were a couple of times where we had different ideas of how to complete the task and we were sure our idea was better than the others so we would roll our eyes and do it their way, but we made it through. It took a TON of planning and we appreciated the effort that was put into the event to make it so fun for all of us.
We go out together as a family often when getting a babysitter doesn't work out. Sometimes out to eat for someone's birthday celebration or we will go explore places we've heard of, but never been. Sometimes we just head out to be out. Most of the time we don't do much, but just wander about together. It is still nice.
We have been to two movies this year...at the theater in the last two months. We went to Hunger Games and we went and saw Avengers. I think we go to the theater maybe once a year. We are a Redbox type of family and we almost always wait for them to be super cheap, but we did enjoy these movies.
We have been enjoying our dating life and are glad we can swap with friends so we don't have to pay. Katelyn can be a handful with her separation issues and tears, but luckily she goes to sleep for them ok and then they get a break! Poor little girl just likes us too much! We like her too, but I need my time with just David sometimes. It takes a lot to make us all happy!
David is always hesitant leaving Katelyn with someone/anyone mostly because he is gone all the time with work and hardly gets to see her. The last two weeks have been TERRIBLE because the audit he is on was crammed into this two week time frame, so this team they have is working all day and all night. With just the one car, I drive David to the metro station in the morning and he commutes that way, and then I pick him up when he's ready at the metro station again. This is usually fine, but lately he goes in at 7 and comes home around 10...tonight its 11:30 :( So Katelyn either goes to bed way too late, or gets woken up and then we have to get her back to sleep after I pick him up. So David doesn't get to see much of Katelyn lately and he doesn't see much of me either...except for when we fall asleep talking about each other's days and when we roll around in our sleep and stop in the perfect position and breathe heavy sleeping bad-smelling breaths that we wake each other up and tell the other to stop breathing or roll over with a polite pat on the bum.
So I always look forward to these dates and am excited to drop Katelyn off with her friends and sneak out when she's having fun and hopefully doesn't notice I am gone. I am with her all day every day and while I love that little girly, I also love some alone time with my boy!
David usually drags his feet and tries to convince me to take Katelyn on our date with us, but he puts up with it and tries harder and harder each time to not worry about Katelyn so much and to enjoy our dates.
We have had a lot of temple dates and it has been so refreshing to go! It is farther away than we are used to, but close enough to go still.
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| Sorry...this is a picture from the winter! |
We went to a dance one night and David only went because I wanted to go. There was ice cream so he thought he could dance to a song and then enjoy the ice cream the rest of the night. I have seen him dance like nobody's watching even when people are watching. He can be a fearless dancer, but he just wasn't feeling it that night :) He said that working the last job he had has made him a less exciting person. That job took a lot out of him! He suffered through enough with that job and I am doing my part to get him back to his silly ol' self again.
Another super fun date we had was an Amazing Race. There were nine different couples that competed for the glory of first place and we all had our own team color and shirts to make it official. (Some people thought we were on the real show and we had to be sure to tell them that we weren't and that the real show probably would not be using itty bitty cheap cameras to film the show.) David was convinced that the couple planning the race had too big of an advantage over the rest of us. I was in it to win it, but David was just there to have fun and take it easy. His competitiveness wasn't there, and some of you know that sometimes this is a good thing and sometimes it isn't. David is becoming known as the Rule Nazi with some people and is trying to not be so passionate during games and things so he doesn't hurt people's feelings. He is getting better at not being the murderer of the games and went for the laid back strategy with this game. We ended up in a tie with the couple that planned it for last and we were okay with that...mostly. The competitive part of me still wishes we would have done better, but there were no hurt feelings so we were all happy. We had tasks all around town from dancing with strangers and teaching them the Monkey's song/dance, Geo-caching, speed eating frozen yogurt, counting around 1500 mail boxes at the post office and trying to count while others are counting aloud, washing windows for strangers, chopping wood (we were terrible at this!), finding a book with an author with the same last name, making a pyramid of paint cans and putting them back where they go (why wouldn't Home Depot want 9 pyramids left in their store?), finding, memorizing, and reciting a high school's long mission statement (we did this one wrong), and at the end of all this we made some friends and still loved each other at the end of it! There were a couple of times where we had different ideas of how to complete the task and we were sure our idea was better than the others so we would roll our eyes and do it their way, but we made it through. It took a TON of planning and we appreciated the effort that was put into the event to make it so fun for all of us.
We go out together as a family often when getting a babysitter doesn't work out. Sometimes out to eat for someone's birthday celebration or we will go explore places we've heard of, but never been. Sometimes we just head out to be out. Most of the time we don't do much, but just wander about together. It is still nice.
We have been to two movies this year...at the theater in the last two months. We went to Hunger Games and we went and saw Avengers. I think we go to the theater maybe once a year. We are a Redbox type of family and we almost always wait for them to be super cheap, but we did enjoy these movies.
We have been enjoying our dating life and are glad we can swap with friends so we don't have to pay. Katelyn can be a handful with her separation issues and tears, but luckily she goes to sleep for them ok and then they get a break! Poor little girl just likes us too much! We like her too, but I need my time with just David sometimes. It takes a lot to make us all happy!
1 comment:
Good job at doing these date nights. When you have 2 kids, it will be even more important to do them. I wish we could be better at them. I wish I could find some people willing to do my big dates or parties with me like the Amazing Race one - so fun!
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