Thursday, April 30, 2020

Date Night

How do you schedule a date night when: 1. Your waking hours are already significantly stretched between watching the kids, working a full job, keeping the house in order and trying to maintain your sanity; 2. No restaurant, bar or activity is open to go to (and something about a masked walk around the block doesn’t seem that romantic) And 3. You are officially on house arrest which means a babysitter isn’t even an option if you were able to carve time out of the schedule and find an activity outside to leave the house with your husband.

After seven weeks of not spending any real time together Martin and I figured it was worth a try.  Here is how it went.

We had a small dinner with the kids and went through our normal bedtime routine to get the kids in bed.  Once asleep Martin headed out to pick up dinner at Mo’s Grill and I stayed home to make our table seem less like a disaster zone and more like a restaurant… I lit some candles, brought out the tablecloth and pulled out the water glasses.

Come to find out that most restaurants in our neighborhood, while open for takeout, close early due to lack of demand.  Martin tried four different restaurants before he found one that was open passed 8pm.  Instead of our fancy dinner (okay, it wasn’t going to be that fancy), he came home with two solo burgers (no fries) and two beers. I am going to be honest, my fancy table setting made the burgers seem even sadder.  Thankfully what they lacked in appearance, they made up for in taste… they were really good!

We rounded out the meal with homemade chocolate treats from Oskar’s friend Max and a sip of our favorite whiskey Nant, which prompted us to reminisce about our trip to Australia over 9 years ago.  

It might not have been fancy, and definitely not what we were expecting (did I also mention that I had cried earlier that night due to stress from work?  No? Well there was that as well), but it was still really nice.  We are going to try again in a few weeks and hopefully this time we can find a place that is open!

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