Finally, A Date!

It seems like it's been forever since we've gone out without our princess Lauren, for just a parents night out. It's probably been at least two years. We still haven't found anyone to be a good babysitter for us (although I have to admit we also haven't tried that hard). Lauren's daycare in the past has run parent's night out, where staff from the daycare run an evening babysitting service. It's been a long time since they've done it, and back when they did do it, Lauren was still too new to the daycare for it to work well with her stranger anxiety.

So when the daycare finally posted a sign before Valentine's day for a parent's night out on February 20th, we just ignored it. But to our surprise, Lauren asked what the sign said, so we read the sign to her and explained it was a night for kids to stay at the daycare while the parents went out to see a movie or have dinner. Her immediate reaction was "Let's do that!". So we agreed and she went to parent's night out last night.

To my surprise, Lars had already planned the evening for us. A nice dinner in Santana Row, followed by dinner at the Cinearts theater. We went to see "Milk" and it was much more touching and beautiful a movie than I expected. Both of us shed tears near the end even though we both knew what the outcome of the movie was. We also both learned a lot about that time period that neither of us was aware of us and showed us what truly remarkable person Harvey Milk was.

When we got to the daycare to pick Lauren up, she was awake still and really happy. She had a great time, so we know we'll be doing this again the next time they have a parent's night out.