Date Night

About a year ago, when Little Man was 3 years old, he spent his first night over at Grandma & Grandpa's house. It went well, so from time to time we bring him over and we have a night to ourselves. However we have been married for nine and a half years and together for ten and half. For the past 4+ years our lives have revolved around Little Man. So when date night comes along, we are at a bit of a loss; we don't know what to do with ourselves.

We usually go out to dinner. Then we go home. Sometimes we have sex, sometimes we just sit around and watch a movie on cable or from Netflix. Sometimes we go home and simply go to sleep. I know the sleep one in particular sounds B-O-R-I-N-G! However you must understand that when you have a 4 year old in the house, sleep is a hot commodity. And when the 4 year old is AWOL that is the best chance to get uninterrupted sleep. (LOL!!! last time he slept over at Grandma & Grandpa's he woke Grandpa up at like 5:00am. Grandpa doesn't seem to get that he has to tell Little Man to go back to sleep. That it's too early.)

No it's not terribly exciting. We really need to be creative and come up with some interesting things to do. No, we REALLY need to come up with something! Last night my guy suggested bowling-which we did not end up doing. (I should make something very clear. As geeky as bowling sounds he had good reason to suggest it. He has very bad knees. He's had 3 surgeries on each knee; 6 knee operations in total. His last 2 surgeries were done at the same time. He had partial knee replacement on both knees on Halloween 2005. Bowling and golf are the only sports he's capable of doing now. Hence his bowling suggestion.)

I suppose next Date Night I should put together a nice picnic and we can eat on the beach. I'm at a total loss of ideas at the moment! (How lame.)

Yeah, I know-Date Night with the exciting couple! (Not.) I will say this though, it's a million times better than being single!