Old School Date Night

Rory and I have recently started "date night".
We used to do it when the kids were little ... when we could put them to bed early.
That's not so easy now that Jono can tell time !
ha ha

Last week, Rory's parents were up for the weekend and agreed to watch the
kids while we had a date ... an outside the house date !
Since we are watching our budget,
we decided to get a some nice
crackers, a soft cheese,
some olives and
a nice dip.

We started our night with a walk along the beach.
The photo above is the only one I took the
whole night. I just couldn't resist
that sun poking through those
clouds ! Glorious, no ?
After our walk
which was
windy,

we
made our
way to another
beach and parked ourselves
on a blanket and had a picnic by
streetlight ! It was lovely but when the
light night started we decided to move on.

We walked the esplanade for
while in search of a nice
dessert. Didn't find
anything that
took our
fancy.

So
we came
home.

It
was so
nice to just
spend time together.
Tonight is date night # 2.
We'll be home. Rory planned it.
Since we have borrowed season 7 of 24
on DVD, we're going old school date night.
Rory has bought some chips, dip and COKE !
We're going to stay up late watching episode after
episode of 24 ! I haven't had a coke since we were in Denver
for Christmas 2008 so I'm sure the caffeine and sugar will do their
job and we might get through the whole season tonight ! ha ha. We might
though. We watched the first four last night so we only have 20 hours to go !!
We are planning to hit the BBQ's at the beach early tomorrow morning
though and have a pancakes on the beach breakfast before church.
Hopefully we will be able to drag ourselves out of bed !
We shall see !

Read more »

{from sidewalk chalk to sushi picnics}

peeking out the window the other day, i saw this ...
the kids decorating the 'side of the house patio' with copious amounts of sidewalk chalk
they love to do things together
this morning they were in their bedroom for at least 15 minutes just chatting
and reading
jono reading to alia
i love it
i especially love when they do a 'project'
like this sidewalk chalk
or the dollhouse we, well, mostly they are building

each tuesday jono has to present show and tell
now, it's not show and tell like i remember it, where you picked a toy or something
maybe a hairless stuffed animal with the eyes picked off
(his name was Beary and i loved him !!)
these days, it's more like a project and it's themed to go along with the unit for the term
this term's unit is gardens
remember the poems ?
anyway, last week he had to do 'garden art'
he decided (on his own, mind you !) that he wanted to paint a paper
fold it over so it got onto the other half
let it dry and then cut out flowers
he did just that and then glued them onto a bigger paper
he also painted stems, leaves and grass

i love how it turned out ...

friday nights are pizza/movie night around here
sometimes the movie choices are slim so we opt for game night instead
and sometimes we don't have pizza
but we still call it pizza/movie night and we all know what we mean
'family time'
every friday night !!

this friday night
we didn't have pizza
we had a make your own sushi picnic
we all love sushi and who doesn't love a good picnic ?
especially in front of a good G rated action flick
city of ember
was this weeks choice
actually ... i just checked and it is rated PG
it was good
we enjoyed it

well, folks, i'm going to wrap this up ...
rory's hanging out in the family room and i'm going to go join him !!

~~

cousins, for whom i am writing longer posts ... i'm going to need some commentage from you !!
fair's fair !!

Read more »