Friday, March 2, 2012

Date Night on our Little Island

We're always so happy and blessed...and amused when our visitors have offered to babysit while we go on a date. Such a sweet offer, such an appealing thought. But on THIS island, there are no restaurants that we can just go to eat dinner.
So THIS is what a good date night is: feed the girls something light like noodles or rice. Put them to bed...and fry up some jumbo shrimp.
Pop in a DVD bought on the streets of Mombasa. Sit on the couch together, drinking cold Coke and eating fried shrimp, and enjoy.
Oh yeah, and make sure Braelyn has a good DVD in the laptop to keep her occupied. Neither one of us can make it through the day without our nap, but the girl just can't fall asleep at night with one!
In daytime news, the big girls got to go have a play date with Lilee and came home with play-dough. Avery made this cake for Hunter this morning and it was so sweet. It's so fun to watch them all (including B now!) play together and do things for each-other and color pictures for each-other. We made a Fruit of the Spirit tree for the wall and they get to put a sticker on the appropriate fruit when they exercise on of those fruits. It's so cool to see them trying to find ways to be good and kind and joyful. Now for me...

2 comments:

Kimberly said...

Miss those girls so much! B is looking more and more like Avery to me. Give them all big hugs from us.

Our date nights look much the same these days, kids to bed and then dinner and a movie on the couch.

LOVE YOU.

Naomi said...

Fruit of the Spirit tree- what an awesome idea!