A Day with No Kids

Well, My in-law's, Kevin and Betsy, very graciously volunteered to watch our boys overnight on friday and during the day saturday. I set this up with Betsy a month or so ago and have been looking forward to it. But sometimes the anticipation sets me up for disappointment. I didn't have any set plans and wanted it that way. Just knowing we could wake up Saturday morning when we wanted ( kind of) and not have yelling kids, that would be a big enough treat.

I had hopes of cooking a nice seafood dinner, but at 6:00 I didn't have the energy. Alex had to unexpectedly work late so he didn't get home till 7 or so. Like I said, my expectations were set up even though nothing was officially planned and finding out Alex wouldn't be home till after 7 was a little more than I could handle. Sometimes when I'm pregnant, I get a "bit" emotional. So, I had a rough emotional evening even though things were fine. We went to eat near the outlets but then I was tired from the week and day, that we just went home to watch some DVR recordings.

Saturday morning was nice. We didn't sleep in because we're programmed to wake up, but we were able to just lay there and even turn on the TV. I got hungry and wanted to eat at our favorite little cafe, The Sweetwater Cafe. I got frosted flake crusted french toast and alex got a great grilled blueberry muffin and omelet w/ grits. The grits were just okay, but everything else was great.

We went looking at some bar stools, went to Lowe's where they were having a 1/2 off sidewalk sale, went to Sam's to eat some of Alex's favorite 3-meat pizza and then it was 1 pm. So, we decided to see Slumdog Millionaire. I don't know the last time Alex and I ever went to a movie during the day, but it was nice to just have the time to do whatever. Make a plan on the spur of the moment.

Anyways, it is a movie worth seeing. We picked up the boys and headed back home to deal with the time change.