Did I mention that last week was the crazy week to end all crazy weeks? Because it was. 1 night at home from Sunday to Saturday. That’s it. As a result, date nights were a bit goofy. See the rest of the dating fun at Simply Modern Mom’s 52 Dates project!
Fun Date: Tuesday was our OFFICIAL anniversary (as previously mentioned). 8 years, guys. Really? Crazy!! Anyhow, we had a special date night to celebrate. Matt dropped off the kids with my mom and we went to a reception for incoming Vanderbilt (where we met!) students from the Denver area. It was a fun schmoozy (though not boozy) event. It was interesting to hear how things had changed in the 12 years since we first started at Vandy and we met lots of nice people.
Then we went to dinner at House of Marrakesh, a nice little Moroccan restaurant (our rehearsal dinner was at a Moroccan restaurant many years ago!). It is one of about 28397 restaurants around here we have been wanting to try and for some reason I landed on that one as our choice. Since we had never been there before so we had their 5 course dinner to try out lots of stuff.
Appetizers were lentil soup, bread with honey oregano butter and a really great tomato cucumber salad. We also had the chicken bastella pastry which phyllo dough with meat and spices (cinnnamon, etc.) and has powdered sugar on top. It is strange, but wonderful. Then we had three main courses to choose from: lamb tagine, chicken tagine (my fave) and couscous with seven vegetables. Dessert was mint tea and baklava (flavored with rose water, I think). It was a nice little restaurant and I would happily go there again and I think Tabby would especially love it.
Everything clicked along well. We enjoyed talking with each other and taking some trips down memory lane. It was fun to actually have a date ON our anniversary for a change.
I did do better with photos this week and actually took a handful. But they all umm… sucked.Work Date: Since our schedule was all screwy we didn’t know if we’d manage to get a work date in this week, but we did. My parents took the kids again from Saturday afternoon through Sunday afternoon since we had a race to run on Sunday morning and didn’t want to have to get the kids out of bed at 5am to come with us.
After we dropped them off, we came home to nothing but projects. Some we did solo (Matt worked on our home theatre system, I reorganized the food storage cabinet), but some we did together.
Chiefly, we eradicated our main floor of clutter. Clutter is one of those pesky things that just creeps up on you. One thing creeps in and stays just long enough that you stop noticing it. Then another and so on until there’s too much. So we worked diligently to put things where they belong, even if it was the trash or the Good Will box. We also did a fridge clean-out since I happened to spill lime Jell-O in it on Friday (go me!). Slimy start to gorgeous finish, it only took us 20 minutes. Not bad … and something to keep in mind. Most chores do not take as long as you fear and are never half as bad. Or maybe my mind is over-dramatic?
All in all a great week of dates!
Sounds like a great date. Happy anniversary. And the photos did not suck. They are cute.