Date Night

Lately, things have been a bit crazy. Ok - maybe it always seems crazy and it has just been crazier, but Jake and I found ourselves together last night while the girls and Brian were at the youth production called "Hotter than Hell". I told him we could do whatever he wanted and crossed my fingers that it would not mean me watching Youtube videos about Minecraft. He wanted to go to the grocery store and pick out his dinner and then watch a movie. Dinner and a movie! It's date night! He may not be my favorite date partner, but I will take what I can get.

We headed to out new and exciting Safeway and a miracle occurred! I did not have make up on, being as it was my day off, and I DID NOT SEE SOMEONE I KNEW!!! I seem to always see someone I know when I am going au naturale. This was shaping up to be a great night! We shopped around, had to pass on the $8.29 gallon of chocolate milk, and ended up with fish sticks. Now that's good eatin'! We were looking at all the boxes and he said, "Mom, I have to have the one with the picture of the fisherman on it!" He has a very discerning palate. We also got some microwave popcorn, because what goes better with fish sticks than popcorn??? As we drove back to the house, he filled me in on deadly insects. This is one interesting date! We went gourmet and cooked Jake's fish sticks in the toaster oven instead of the microwave and he tasted them and said what every chef wants to hear, "They taste like we cooked them, you know?" Wow, thanks!

Our movie choice for the night was a definite crowd pleaser, "The Croods". A heartwarming story about caveman. It was actually pretty cute and I laughed out loud quite a few times. With dinner and a movie over, I didn't know quite where this date would go, but I should have know it would head in the direction of "Deadly Encounters"! Jake loves shows on the discovery channel and with Netflix, his choice is endless! The "Deadly Encounters" we watched - and I say "we" loosely since I was reading a book on my phone - was about stupid men who look for giant deadly snakes so they can measure them. That sounds like a dream job! I wasn't paying much attention until the stupid man, slogging through bat fecal matter and gagging at all the deadly ammonia from the bad urine, got bitten by one of the snakes in the lower buttock region. Seriously - who thinks that is a cool job??? And to make it worse, he was a two hour hike away from his truck and then a couple hours away from a medical clinic. After he was healed up - SIX WEEKS LATER - he went back in to measure more snakes.

The moral of the story is that boys are weird, whether fish stick loving 10 year olds, or stupid snake measuring 30 year olds. Yet, we can't really have date night without them! I'm just happy my little date still likes to hang out with his mom!