I'm not kidding. I am getting ready to tell you something that many of you will not believe. Well, you may believe it, but you shouldn't ... or at the very least you should be surprised ... because this crap NEVER happens.
Are you ready? Are you bracing yourself? Ya know what? You should probably just go ahead and sit down.
Okay.
Here goes.
Big Daddy and I ....
went out of town this weekend.
The whole weekend.
BY OURSELVES!
Which is the equivalent of NO STINKIN' KIDS!
None.
Zero.
Zilch.
Nada.
Gosh, I almost don't believe it myself ... but I was there. So I know it happened. Unless I was dreaming ...
No. I know I was really there. I have a suitcase full of dirty clothes here to prove it.
This is only the second time in our eleven years of marriage that we've gone somewhere ... just the two of us. We've gone on a few trips without the kids, but we always went with other couples, never just US! And this weekend we did.
It was just a weekend trip to Minneapolis, but it was nice. On Friday night we had a company party for Big Daddy's work. It was very fun and we both had a great time. I had never met a lot of his co-workers in the MN office, so now having faces to put with names is fabulous.
On Saturday we headed to the Mall Of America since I've never been there. It was awesome. We didn't do a lot of the stuff the mall has to offer because I'm really wanting to bring the kids back and experience it with them. At about 11am we found ourselves enjoying football games, along with wings ... and beer (a bloody mary for Big Daddy) at Hooters. You all know I LOVE LOVE LOVE Hooters. Then we walked. And walked. And walked. It was a lot of fun. Afterward, we headed back to the hotel and scanned the local yellow pages for places nearby that we could hit.
We made our way to three, having a drink at the first two and dinner at the last. Then, being the great, awesome party-goers that we are ... we headed back to the hotel and flipped on the Saturday night football game, flopped into bed and were both asleep by nine.
And we loved every minute of it.
And now that I'm home, sitting in the middle of chaos with the kids screaming and running about, I realize just how much.
