Belated Valentine's Day Post....

Greetings.

As a general sign to how busy we are / how "baby" centric we are...I am actually writing about what happened on Sunday.  For the first time since...gosh...at least September...Autumn and I went on a "date" by ourselves.  It was Valentine's Day and Grandma and Grandpa Kaldahl were more than insistent that we go out by ourselves.  We were so grateful and had a wonderful time together!!

It is funny how quickly kids change your mindset about these kinds of things.  When we lived in Arizona, one of the things I did every year...usually during the first week of the year...was make reservations for our favorite restaurant there...Rosa's Little Italy.  So when it came time to think about where we'd go out on this momentous occasion...it took lots of planning and preparing right!?!  Sure ;-)

I asked Autumn where she wanted to go...her answer was "Wherever the wait is the shortest!!"  For being the romantic, sentimental one in our family...that was definitely a victory for Practicality!!  :-)  We had at least planned on using some gift certificates we had...but when the wait at each of the places we wanted to go to was more than an hour long...we went to the last place we'd gone out to eat before she was put on bedrest...Outback Steakhouse!!  That isn't a complaint either...we both enjoy going there...I just find it ironic that that is where we ended up.

It was a great choice though.  They have "seat yourself" seating at the bar.  So after we checked in to start our 35-45 min wait we went to the bar for our first alcoholic beverages in...who knows when!?!  Lucky for us...right when we approached the bar a couple was just getting up to leave.  We sat down right behind them...total wait time = 2 minutes!!

Then...we ran into our next door neighbor, John who knew it was our first time out.  He kindly introduced the manager to us who gave us our appetizer complementary!!  It was so nice of both of them!

It was great just getting out together.  We sat in the same booth together...were able to cuddle and just be a couple for the first time in forever.  But...by the time we were done with dessert we already missed our little boys and worked through the "sleep" / "care" arrangements for the night.  I guess you never get "too" far away do ya!?!