Ready, set, GO!!!!  That's what I chose to title this blog post, why?  Beucase, that is the theme in our house on nights like last night.  DATE NIGHT!!!

Setting-  Kids "cray cray" all week, me a mother load of a hot mess, and desperate for something other than apple sauce sippys and sun butter and jelly.  Super dad walks in our eyes meet and we both know we are doing a mental version of river dance knowing that in about 1 hour from that moment we are FREE!!!  Kids screaming, Baby wearing only diaper and pink cowgirl boots and I . Am. Done.  Does the scene I am describing mirror your house on a Friday or any other night you have chosen to have a date night?  

5:30pm- feed kids, they are getting waffles, no you can't put your own syrup on we actually want you to sleep tonight.

5:45- tell super dad I am going upstairs to attempt to do something with what I have reverted to throughout day..  I am in here somewhere.

5:50- standing in front of closet, pretty sure that I have nothing to wear, and that I am no longer relevant with today’s society when it comes to fashion. Operation glam up mom has commenced.

5:55- oh Crap I forgot to turn on the straintener, must do that.  DONE.

6:00- In great attempt to wear my hair strait and down I end up putting it back into a pony again.

6:10 I can hear kids fighting and screaming downstairs, think to myself “Superdad hold it together, we can do this just 20 more min"

6:15 make-up and two outfit changes, I just want to look hot.

6:20- make up check.

6:30- putting baby to bed. 

6:40- still putting baby to bed.

6:50- wait what time were dinner reservations? 7:15? We will be late

7:00- give older two stern lectures about bed time, manners and all around appropriate decorum.  Won’t work, but eh at least we tried.

7:05 out the door and on our way....  Good luck babysitter-You'll need it! (I mean lets be honest, my kids are good kids but my little turkeys think "oh what fun it is to test our boundaries with someone that we might be able trick")

Does anyone else struggle with leaving mom mode and entering date mode?  I mean it is not like I am trying to cut my husband’s food, but just the stress and tension from the week make it so challenging to relax and enjoy the evening.  I find myself in some other world as we are out.  Perhaps it is marveling at the fact that I am eating food I do not have to cook, or maybe that I am listening to music that doesn't involve a vegetable in the title of the album...  Whatever it is, I struggle with being present.  All that hurrying to get out of the house and enjoy myself has now exhausted me that I want to go home and sleep.  This is my reality right now, I have three small children that I am chasing and I want to sleep.

We went out last night, and spent most of the evening chatting about our kids and how to manage the current craziness and unpredictability of our lives.  We do this as parents.  We spend time getting ready, we pay someone to watch our kids and we talk about how great it is going to be when we get out and go somewhere without them but when we finally leave...  We talk about them.  ALL. NIGHT. But here is the beauty about this irony we find ourselves in.  We talked about them, without being interrupted by them.  And that my friend is date night parent style.

I love this commercial- makes me laugh everytime, Superdad and I have done this on occasion.  #ChildrenOfTheNineties