Parents Night Out

When we joined the gym, we didn't just sign ourselves up, we also signed up Sarah and Nicholas. True, Nicholas won't be doing free weight curls any time soon, but there are plenty of kids activity classes for Sarah. But best of all - the kids membership includes babysitting. Now, we have no excuse to not go to the gym. Several times already, the whole family has gone to the gym, with Sarah and Nicholas in the babysitting. Plus - one night a month, the gym does "Parents Night Out", which gives us 3 hours of babysitting (no extra cost). Last Saturday night, we went to a steakhouse in Annapolis and had a really great time out. We made it back to pick up the kids at 8:59:59! We even made it back to the gym the next afternoon to work some of it all back off.

Last night, we went to Chick-Fil-A with one of Sarah's friends from school (and her mom and younger sister). The girls got to play in the indoor playsets and got some (free) face painting. Sarah's friend Fiona lives the other direction from school and kinda far away, and going out to C-F-A seemed like a good compromise between our houses. But somehow Fiona thought Sarah was going out to eat and then going to play at her house. It was all she talked about with David the last few days when he was picking up or dropping off Sarah. Fiona was so sad when her mom finally got it across to her that the moms took out their calendars to find another date for the girls to play.