Surviving the Domestic Jungle

Yesterday was my husbands birthday and we actually went out….alone! We started the day with doing our baby registry which I ended up caving and went with an animal theme for the bedding for our son. There was nothing that I really liked but I was ok with this one cute set of safari animals. We found some really great things and I hope we get them ALL!!!! Anyway, after that we dropped off Hailey (Avery was with her dad and grandmother this weekend) with my mom and we went to dinner just us, alone. We NEVER go out without the kids. Ever. Hailey is 2 and I have never left her overnight without us and the longest we have ever been away from her was the day we moved about 3 weeks ago. Kind of pathetic but we really just are not the kind of people who don’t incorporate our children in our lives. If we hang out with friends, we invite them over or we go to their house and we all just hang out. We are just at that stage in life where the kids are number one. It was nice for us to go out alone though. He opened doors (car and restaurant!) and we had a lovely dinner and a really nice waitress and a big dessert and it was just wonderful. I wish we did it more because we were sitting there giggling about how the last time we went out together was when I was pregnant with Hailey!!! It had been a while to say the least! Today we are having a big family party for all the birthdays that were yesterday (my husband and sister in law) and Monday (my stepdad). All these Christmas babies!! I’m so glad Hailey was born the 4th of December so she wasn’t plagued with her birthday being overshadowed by the biggest holiday of the year! Im really looking forward to seeing everyone!!