Somebody get me the matches! We're Rekindling!

So the hubbs and I hit a speed bump.....I call that speed bump life.  The kids also hit that speed bump with us. So everyone in my home is acting extremely weird.  The kids wont listen, the hubbs and I have jobs that leave us little room for much more than a round of the "grown up" and Hi-Five. (which has some benefits :).

What I think date nights are supposed to look like

All that being said.....we are rekindling.  When I hear the term rekindling I think of things like romantic evenings with cocktail dresses and champagne and fancy dinners and kids being away with a relative or boarding school (wishful thinking here folks).  But no. Our rekindling will be massively different, yet tailor made for us.  I have though about it extensively and I believe it shall go like this:

6:00 am - wake up, get kids dressed, and off to school.  They will wake up with sunny dispositions and dress and groom themselves with no help from me. I will begin cooking a healthy breakfast.

7:45 am - kids load their respective school buses and the hubbs and wave see ya later.


8:00 am - Mimosas! Yessssss...... why not? maybe some upbeat music and we clean the new house and laugh and giggle and shit.

Yumm.....

11:00 - the early show at a movie maybe and lunch at a nearby restaurant.

1:30 pm - a nice drive to the lake or something, music blasting on the car stereo (I'm pretending gas prices aren't sky high)

3:00 pm - Kids get home tell us how awesome school was and do their homework with minimal help from us parents because they are geniuses

6:00 pm - Dinner is served .... because I'm awesome and managed to serve dinner at a really normal Pleasantville time of day. (This never happens)

How happy is this family?

6:45-8:00 pm - a little mind numbing TV as a family, some laughs and the kids tell us how much they love  being a family

Family game night!

9:00 pm - kids head off to bed, and the hubbs and I take a shower (together!!) a little scrabble, some cuddling, a chick flick with action so hubbs doesn't go to sleep and we do the grown up rinse and repeat.

Is this real? They are surely watching an action packed chick flick

Reality: Lots of work, no time for a matinee, or mimosas, cleaning takes place while Hubbs is at work, dinner is always late, gas prices are up so no ones going for  leisurely drive, while my kids are geniuses they still require the brain of the two parental geniuses in the house to complete homework, My little angels are really spawn with selective hearing (they select to not hear anything we say), and that nearby restaurant is a Charley's Grilled Subs with those really awesome kiwi lemonades, not champagne.  So if anyone's got some free time could you do me a favor?

Our version of  a romantic meal

Get Me The Matches .......... We're Rekindling!


~lola