Date Night

Richard and I had a date tonight! It has been a very busy couple of weeks, which included stress from work and both our cars needing repaired (+ a speeding ticket for me . . just a rough week). Needless to say we were both very excited. It turned out Richard's parents came up to Atlanta to help his brother out and were kind enough to come down our way to baby sit and then pass off to Stephen later, so we didn't even have to pay for a sitter. We ate at Longhorn's which is one of our favorite steakhouses. I had to laugh a little towards the end of dinner. A very young couple sat next to us and she sat right next to him with her legs over his lap and they shared their food all night and just gazed into the others' eyes. I barely noticed them over gobbling up my salad, and giggled when I realized we were as focused and enjoying our chocolate stampede with as much energy as they were enjoying looking at one another. I remember being like that when we were dating, when you could not get enough of just being near the other person. For just a second I almost said out loud, "why can't we be like that on our date?" . . .but the words never got out of my mouth because I was shoveling in that chocolate, cream, fudge, ice cream goodness and realized that we are just fine the way we are!