Date Night

Today is a regular old home school Tuesday. I could call it typical, but that would not be quite right; because there is no such thing. What's nice about today so far is that no one (not even me) has had an emotional melt-down - yet, the girls are getting most of their work done within the time frame allotted, I don't even think anyone has said, "I totally hate ..." (fill in with the school subject of your choice).

I even had a chance to play at the park with Grace while Abby and Emma finished up their math. I shook the sand out of Grace's little generic crocs before we walked home, while she patted my back and said, "You're a good Mommy." That was a genuinely encouraging pat on the back.

I am feeling wonderfully refreshed after a great date-night with Greg last night. We got away to Wichita and had a much-needed opportunity to communicate and have fun all by ourselves.

The date re-cap:
We started out at William-Sonoma hoping with all of our hearts that they would happen to have the perfect espresso machine marked 95% off. We seem to have loved ours to death - literally, and now aren't quite sure what to do in the afternoons when the ICED AMERICANO calls out to us. Well, believe it or not, William-Sonoma had no such deal, but we handled it well and turned our sights toward amazing bargains at the Gap and Eddie Bauer.

Well, these stores did come through for us. We walked out of Eddie Bauer with one pair of swimming trunks and two shirts to the most amazing full moon I've seen in awhile. Greg and I were both so amazed by the sight that greeted us right outside the store that we spoke at the same time.

"Wow, look at that amazing moon tonight!"

"Did you see that car? That's a porsche boxter!"

Guess who made which statement. Greg tried to convince me that noticing the car was just as romantic as noticing the moon and that he had actually noticed the moon before he noticed the Porsche. Anyhow, we did proceed to sit under the gorgeous moonlight and have a great conversation although not while sitting in a Porsche boxter. This still qualified as entirely romantic in my book.

We capped the evening off with our favorite stand-by of Barnes & Noble including decaf coffee and Cheesecake Factory desserts as featured in the Barnes & Noble Cafe'. For only $7 and some odd cents (okay, not counting our stellar deals- but that comes out of the clothing budget), we had a fabulous night on the town, and a great reminder of how much we enjoy each other : PRICELESS!