Date Night!

Definition [according to the gospel by Cori] of a married couples' date night:
n. An occurrence during which the husband and wife find themselves venturing out on their own sans child[ren] for an evening, free to allocate said evening entirely as they please, with only the stipulation that they will in fact return at some juncture to pick up earlier mentioned child[ren].
n. Rare.



our little toy car for the evening - the miata

When was the last time Joe and I had a real date night? Your guess is as good as mine, so it made perfect sense that we would just refresh the recent history in that department and do it up date style.

Before I get too far into the wicked wild tales of our kid-free evening [pshhhh], let me first and foremost T H A N K Dawne, our trusted in-home daycare provider and babysitter. She had offered, unsolicited, earlier last week to keep Sydni overnight one night so that Joe and I could have one of these date nights. It was funny how the natural tendencies of married folk still factor into even the getting-ready phase of the traditional date:

"Cori, really? There's a long black hair in my sink. Did you put that there on purpose?"

"Joe, put the cap back on the toothpaste..."

^ True story. Haha. Anyway, we managed to bypass the formalities of the standard pre-date process and head out the door to dinner without much fuss. Joe had the little retiree vehicle [Miata], so we bee-bopped ourselves in that dinky thing on over to dinner before making our way to the theater for a movie.


yay, marvel! :) | the avengers

Fast forward to now, when we're back home, and I can tell you that The Avengers was all I had hoped it would be :). It's been I-don't-know-how-long since Joe and I went to see a movie in a theater bigger than our living room, so it was a welcome change in routine altogether. That the movie wasn't awful definitely helped enhance the overall experience, and when it was all said and done, I felt like we'd done a dandy little job of taking advantage of a night to ourselves :). Yay, us!
Since we don't want to incorporate too much wild into the night, we're both going to sleep in a few minutes. It's early, yeah, I know, but some things just won't change nowadays. Haha.

G'Nite.

xo | cmd