The 12 best parts about date night

1. Wearing clothes that (unless things go horribly wrong) don’t have another person’s spit-up all over them
2. Being able to eat in a leisurely manner, rather than scarfing food down in 3 minutes flat before the baby gets into something else
3. Those nice dangly earrings aren’t in danger of being ripped out
4. When you sit down at the restaurant, you don’t immediately have to move everything to one side of the table out of the grasp of little hands
5. Spending time with your significant other as a reminder of WHY you wanted to have babies with them
6. Adult conversation that isn’t punctuated by shrieks, screams, crying, or yelling
7. Speaking in a normal volume, rather than trying to talk over the above noises
8. Conversing about politics, science, entertainment, family, friends, and other topics that are a reminder that there’s a world outside of the baby
9. No shame when the conversation veers back to the kid, since you both find him totally cool
10. Getting a night off from the dinner to bedtime marathon that is a 7month old
11. Coming home to a quiet house, since the baby is already asleep
12. The sweet realization that you both want to check on the baby because even though time alone is important (!), you both missed the little guy

As always, more lists can be found over at Anna’s at abdpbt!

Tagged as: domestic life, Marriage, Mommyhood