Date Night

Sometimes you have got to get creative about having a date night with your husband, when you don't have a regular babysitter to call upon. So last weekend, Billy picked up Olive Garden take out for the two of us after his guitar lessons and I had the kids bathed and laid out on a blanket on Vivi's bed, with boxed dinners (the containers their Six Flags meals came in) of corn dogs and popcorn...you know real healthy stuff! And Beverly Hills Chihuahua from Netflix on the portable DVD player. (Not exactly our choice of great movie entertainment!) The kids found this arrangement to be very exciting, since we always eat our dinners at the kitchen table as a family without TV.

There are just times when the rules have to go out the window and you do what you have to do to have a quiet evening. :)