For several years a few of us will get together after church on Sunday evening and hit the local IHOP. Usually for omelet's or icecream ( in my case its usually a waffle ). The other night a few of us got together after a week of revival at church and just hung out together , laughing and cutting up like teens. It felt good to be able to just relax and spend time with some really good friends. Sometimes I think our children forget that us "old" parents like to get out and have fun also. I'm forever being told that I just don't get it. Huh! Sometimes I think they don't get it. They don't get that we use to be young once ( actually I still feel pretty young ) and that we like time to ourselves and that we don't always want to have to have worries or cares. I tell friends who have young children to remember to take time out for themselves. Plan a date night or go away for a weekend. And please take time to vacation away just you two. One day those babies will be grown ups and you and your husband will be home alone. You want to be able to enjoy the empty nest together rather then spend that time in seperate areas of that nest for the next twenty years !
