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The Fork

With the girls, going out to eat is always a bit challenging for me. Especially in a place like Kabuto’s. Even though Hannah and Reagan are becoming much more independent, you put them in an unfamiliar place and they’d rather sit on my lap (at the same time) than in a chair of their own.

I’m not sure how long ago, but it’s been quite awhile, maybe even last year, we were eating at Kabuto as a family. If I remember correctly, it was during a “fire show” at the Hibachi grill that one of the girls crawled into my lap. With all the up and down, in and out of my lap, things are bound to find themselves falling from the table onto the floor, or into my purse.

I usually keep my purse at my feet instead of hooked on the back of my chair because I’m a little paranoid of someone grabbing it.  And I usually keep it open for easy access. As a result, when I got home that night, I discovered a fork from the restaurant in my purse. I was too embarrassed to just take it back and say something like, “I promise I didn’t mean to steal it!”. My intent was just to sneak it back on the table the next time we ate there. I didn’t want to keep it in my purse, so I just put in our silverware drawer in a separate slot from the rest of our forks until we went back to the restaurant.

Of course,  we ate there quite a few times and I would always forget about the fork until I was eating or we had gotten back home again. The thought of mailing it back to them crossed my mind, but that seemed a bit much. So last week, my neighbor (who’s one of the best people I know, by the way) and I went to lunch together, at Kabuto, and I finally remembered to take the fork with me.

I was trying to be sneaky about it so I wouldn’t be too obvious. I also wanted to do it soon after we got there so I wouldn’t forget again. (Which was a good possibility)  I tried to hide the fork in my hand to place it back on the table. And of course, as soon as I go to put it on the table, the server walks up for our drink order. I probably looked guilty at that point, because even though I was trying to do something right, I still felt like I was doing something wrong.

Kinda like when I go to buy the real Sudafed behind the counter at the pharmacy because the meth makers had to ruin it for the rest of us. And while having to show my drivers license and give my blood type to buy a $5.00 box of sinus relief, in the back of my mind I’m wondering if people are judging me. Not that it really matters, it’s just how I feel.

Anyway, I finally succeed in putting the fork back on the table (unnoticed, I think), and then zipped up my purse so it wouldn’t happen again!!! Ah, the adventures we’d never have if not for motherhood!!

best date night ever

Friday night my Mom took all three kids to spend the night at her house (thanks Mom & Andy!).  Zale and I debated for quite a while over what we wanted to do. We knew we wanted to get out of the house, but being broke and all we really didn’t want to spend a lot of money. And, with being on our diets, we didn’t want to eat something that would counteract our hard work.

But, we had coupons for Mexican food, Hardee’s, and Sonic. So pretty much whatever we ate wasn’t going to be very healthy. And we REALLY needed a date night. We finally decided to go eat Mexican food. After that we rented a couple of movies and headed home.

We ended up watching both the movies and stayed up talking and laughing for a couple hours. All of  sudden, Zale says, “I want Waffle House.” I laughed thinking how crazy would that be to go to Waffle House in the middle of the night, especially since we hadn’t even been out to a club or anything. But next thing I know we’re in the truck headed to Waffle House at 3:30 in the morning. Then, we went to WalMart, ’cause it was open.  At this point, why not!? It was great, we’re walking through WalMart at 4:30 in the morning, just browsing and talking about what items we need to start picking up for our trip to Hawaii in June. See, we’re planners, huge planners. Which is why Friday night was so unusual for us. We actually played the whole night by ear, no plans, just enjoyed that time together.

It was great, it reminded me of when we were dating. We talked and laughed and just enjoyed each other. It was so nice to really reconnect!

weigh in – ugh

I said I’d update my weigh ins for better or worse, this week it’s worse. But at least I know why. It was an unusual week for me. We had our LifeGroup on Monday night, I went a little crazy with the chocolate chip cookie bars. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday I had lunch out with friends. That would have been fine if I had looked up the nutritional value for those restaurants and figured out the points of what I was eating. Then we had people over again Wednesday night. I need to do better sticking to my points when we’re entertaining.

So, this week I went a little backwards and gained back 1.4 pounds. I’m not going to get discouraged this time, it’s just extra motivation to get back on track. Hopefully next week I’ll be able to report a loss.