Adult Dinner

This past weekend, my husband and I got to do something we hadn’t done in months: have a completely relaxing adult dinner out on our back porch.  After realizing there was no time to make and eat dinner before baby’s bath and bed routine, we delayed dinner and took a short family walk instead.  After getting our son to bed, we stepped outside, grilled up some food, and relaxed on the porch with a glass of wine.  It has been enjoyable and important to us to sit down as a family at dinnertime, but there was something so satisfying about being done with the parent responsibilities while we ate.  There was no entertaining a little one, no slamming toys or stories interrupted.  It was peaceful sitting in the warm summer weather and late sunset.  I felt like a wife again, and not just a mom.  We both enjoyed it so much, we did it again the next night.