Date night

Here’s a summary of our date night tonight.

Barbecue restaurant: out of business.
Movie: theatre closed due to “ice storm.” (ha!)
Amount we missed Jamie: LOTS.
Amount I love being with Doc, no matter the circumstances: LOTS. We had a good laugh over our luck and were thankful that we don’t have to do anything fancy to have fun.

It’s not easy to plan a date when you have a 7 week old infant at home, because you have to optimize the timing of things around his feedings. Also, with a baby, everything takes three times as long as you think it will and is twice as complicated as it should be.

Foiled at both our attempts to eat BBQ and see a movie, we went to Fry’s to get Jamie an iPod dock with speakers for his nursery, so that we can play ocean waves and heartbeat sounds when he’s sleeping. (He does NOT have his own iPod, I promise. We have an older one that we planned to put in his room for that very purpose).

It felt weird being out on our own without Jamie. I really missed him. It was only 2-1/2 hours, but it felt much longer. I only called home once to check on him. I don’t really feel the need to “get away” and have time for myself or alone time with Doc, yet. I’m sure I will come to appreciate  and even crave going out by ourselves once in a while, but right now I don’t really want to be away from Jamie. I’m glad mom offered to babysit, though, because we’re going to eventually have to figure out how to do this sort of thing!