It's Friday! Friday!

Is it weird that I'm actually excited for the weekend for once? Don't get me wrong, I'd much rather stay home with Jeremy and Little Bit and play cars all weekend rather than going to work, but that's life. Gotta work to live! I think it's the fact that I can say vacation is exactly 3 weeks away from today. Helloooo warm weather! They are saying we may accumulate another 4 to 6 inches of snow this Sunday so Florida is sounding really good right now.

Do you and your family find time to travel each year? Jeremy and I talked a lot about how much traveling means to us on our date last night.  We usually manage to take two larger vacations each year with several smaller random trips in between, and while we usually have to budget and sacrifice to do so, it's completely worth it to us. The family time, without distractions and a looming 'to-do' list, is priceless to us, and it's a very needed break away from the 'norm'.

We also talked a lot about Henry and how fast he is growing up. It makes us both sit in wonder and sadness to think about how our little boy is no longer a baby. As a wife and a mother, my heart tore for Jeremy when I saw him hold back the tears, and it also made me love him that much more. I'm lucky to have such a wonderful husband who is also a wonderful father. It's easy to take for granted the feelings of your spouse if you don't take the time to notice exactly what they are feeling.

Date night! It finally happened!

We had a wonderful time last night. We had dinner out at Max & Erma's because we had never been there before. It was good, but I totally blew my diet for the day. I seriously don't think there was one thing on the menu that wouldn't blow my diet though. I'm back on track today but it was worth it for the time spent with Jeremy. We then drove around for an hour, getting lost in the countryside. We do this a lot. We've realized as a couple that simply taking a drive can help us to reconnect and really talk more so than doing anything else. We talked a lot about life and where we are today, friends (or our lack of such), and how much we would love to extend our family soon. I think we also decided that Henry would benefit from a couple of hours of daycare or something of the sort so that he can be around other kids his age for awhile each week. Then we made a quick trip to the grocery to pick up just a couple of things. The entire time we were out, Jeremy told every person we met that he was 'on a date with my wife'. It was sweet because every person kind of looked at us like we were kooky, but they also had this secret smile like they knew that this was a man who adored this woman. And I felt that way too.

I simply have the best husband ever.

I hope you all have a wonderful Friday and weekend!

A Big Deal

Ladies, I need you all to wish me an insane amount of luck today. Why you ask?

Jeremy and I have planned a date night!!

In case you are new around these parts: this is a really, really big deal. It's a big deal because Jeremy and I have not been on one date since Henry was born on July 19th of 2011. Yeah, I said 2011. Like...almost two entire years ago. That's a LONG time for a couple not to have one date together, let me tell you!

It hasn't been because of a complete lack of trying, I will assure you this. Every time that we plan a date night, something goes terribly wrong. Someone dies or ends up in the hospital, a severe storm hits, Henry hyperventilates from screaming so much and we get called home... I swear I'm not exaggerating here!  It almost feels taboo for me to even talk about having a date today because it makes me fear that something awful will happen and we will have to cancel. Again.

I haven't even planned anything specific. I have no idea what we will do or where we will go. It's to cold to do anything outdoors and my ankle prohibits us from doing anything too physical right now, but I'm not going to let that stop us. Even if we just get dinner out together, it will be better than nothing! Any suggestions as to what we can do tonight? It's been so long since we've 'dated' that I'm not sure either of us really know how to anymore!

How often do you and your husband have a 'date night'? I would love for us to be able to have a date once a month. I know that probably sounds minimal, but we really enjoy spending time together as a family and prefer to do most things together. However, we also know it's important to spend time together alone as a couple too. How do you balance couple time and family time?

Wear a Dress

Please tell me that there's someone else out there that goes to check their yahoo mail and is immediately sucked in by the pointless and anything-but-informative yahoo news ticker. Cause that's me - every single flippin' time. Sometimes I'll read like half of them just because they're there. Maybe it's my way of making up for the fact that I don't watch the news like ever anymore. There's something about the Disney Channel entertaining my one year old on and off that just appeals to me more than all the negativity that the news can bring.

Anyway. I was going through all the pointless little stories on there the other day and came across this one:  Date Night Outfits Guys Will Love and it caught my attention because:

1) I like to look cute from time to time.
2) I could totally use a date night right about now and
3) Looking good for the guy in your life usually leads to other things. Get it? I'm sure you do.

So I read it and I wept because either:

1) I'm totally lost when it comes to being 'in style' for a simple date night or
2) Fashion has went so flippin' haywire, that it's really just for the rich and famous anyway.

There were a few outfits on the list that I got. Things like wearing your favorite piece, mini-skirts and a romantic top. I mean, what guy doesn't like a mini-skirt and a romantic top has the entire point in it's name anyway.

But printed pants or a cropped top? I'm pretty sure my husband would look at me like I was an alien, not a totally do-able, fashionista. Just sayin'

And what's up with all the dresses? I love a cute dress but did we have to separate them all into their own type? In this one article we have the little black dress, the little white dress, a sweet dress, a bright dress, an easy dress, a v-neck dress and a bold print dress.

So what in the heck did I learn from all of this?

Easy, Peeeeezy. If you're going out on a date night - wear a dress. Duh.
(And maybe quit reading so many yahoo news stories. Maybe.)