An over night date, woot woot!!!!!
Say what? We snagged a night away.
This past summer we celebrated our 10th anniversary, Stella was still nursing so she accompanied us to a friend's wedding in Victoria. It will still a fun celebration but I wanted to have a night away ALONE, with my BFF/HOTTIE HUBS. We were finally able to make it happen this past weekend. I am calling it our early Valentine's gift!
We have only been away a few nights, once when Mia stayed with Alyson and Jon just before Stella was born and the other time was when we scooted off to Victoria for the wedding this past summer, Mia stayed with Grandma Hinko but Stella came with. Our recent night away was super fun and super special to just have it be us! We had our most trusted babysitters Elyse and Reanne stay with our ladies for 24 hours 6pm-6pm while I whisked Mr. P off into the city.
So fun!!!! It was fun because I had booked a hotel on Whyte Ave that we have previously stayed a time or two. The hotel was modern and the locale could not be beat, Whyte Ave. We use to stay there before kids, when we would come to Edmonton from Fort McMurray and not tell our family. It sounds odd but we have a ton of family around the city so would always have visiting and errands to do and sometimes we wouldn't tell anyone, instead just spend time together. Staying there was kind of a flash back to our old life, 7 years pre-kiddos...we did some fun stuff. One BIG difference is that we pretty much just talked about our family, our girls... of course work and 2013 goals too. It was fabulous to have a great sleep and wonderful to be able to just talk, talk, talk. We had a blast together, hit up a music store, a book store and had some great eats!!!!
We have only been away a few nights, once when Mia stayed with Alyson and Jon just before Stella was born and the other time was when we scooted off to Victoria for the wedding this past summer, Mia stayed with Grandma Hinko but Stella came with. Our recent night away was super fun and super special to just have it be us! We had our most trusted babysitters Elyse and Reanne stay with our ladies for 24 hours 6pm-6pm while I whisked Mr. P off into the city.
So fun!!!! It was fun because I had booked a hotel on Whyte Ave that we have previously stayed a time or two. The hotel was modern and the locale could not be beat, Whyte Ave. We use to stay there before kids, when we would come to Edmonton from Fort McMurray and not tell our family. It sounds odd but we have a ton of family around the city so would always have visiting and errands to do and sometimes we wouldn't tell anyone, instead just spend time together. Staying there was kind of a flash back to our old life, 7 years pre-kiddos...we did some fun stuff. One BIG difference is that we pretty much just talked about our family, our girls... of course work and 2013 goals too. It was fabulous to have a great sleep and wonderful to be able to just talk, talk, talk. We had a blast together, hit up a music store, a book store and had some great eats!!!!
We were given advice early in our marriage from the husband from whose family we admired. He was visiting with us in our newly married bliss and suggested we ALWAYS MAKE THE TIME TO HAVE NIGHTS AWAY TOGETHER WHEN POSSIBLE!! We thought to ourselves "but of course duh", but now we are in the midst of real life and we get it. He also said that getting away together wasn't necessarily common for our parents generation and certainly not the generation before that BUT to look at the world in which we live and the pressure on the family and marriage. When we do make the time to have a date night, or make the time to attend the temple together we feel it. We feel it moving forward with our everyday, we both feel more charged. I know that I feel as though we are standing taller together, shoulder to shoulder as parents and partners. It is totally worth every effort and $ to have time together. For us, this 24 hours away was a perfect belated 10 year celebration and early Vday gesture of love to one another!!! We are definitely in it for at least 10 more, ok for eternity ;P
~ Mrs. P
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