You become aware of an interesting paradox when becoming a parent: deciding to create children is a selfish decision, raising them on the other hand requires a great deal of selflessness. I would have never thought of Jennie and I as selfish people really, I do now see us as formerly being pretty self-centered. We used to just get up and do whatever we wanted, go out to dinner, go to a movie...sleep on weekends (weeknights to for Jennie). Now we cherish those things when they happen. A simple meal together outside of our house used to be a common occurrence, it is now a luxury item.
Last Thursday we decided to indulge ourselves. I decided to take Friday off because things have been slow at work, Jennie had been cooped up in the house all week and were hopeful Ada would co-operate. So we loaded ourselves into the car and set off for Chili's (now the pinnacle of fine dining for us). Another thing that has changed is the way we view crying babies in restaurants. We used to get upset that someone would be so rude to us childless people as to bring out their screaming baby when were trying to enjoy a meal. Now we realize how important those precious moments before the wailing began were to those people.
As we approached the restaurant it became very clear from the squeals in the back seat that we were not going to be having our own "precious moment" that evening. So we turned around and picked up some carry out on the way back home. So last night we decided to have another go at it. Without boring you with the story of our meal, basically we left with the intention of having a near by fast food back up plan in case things went wrong. For the most part, everything went okay. She fell asleep on the car ride over and stayed that way right until the food was brought to the table. So we very quickly scarfed down our food while I rocked her in her car seat under the table to try and prevent our first, embarrassing barrage of stares from the people seated around us. Fortunately, for us she waited till we got in the car. The important thing is that Jennie and I got some much needed time together, even if it was just Chili's, one handed. For a few minutes we got to be selfish again.
Now for the cuteness:
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| Day 1 |
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| 4 weeks |
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| "I SAID MILK NOW, OR I'LL EAT YOUR NOSE!!!" |
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| Sill having fun with Dolly everyday |
1 comment:
You two are too cute, the next step is not caring as much about what other people at the restaurant think ;) hee hee... She's getting so big and so adorable! I was thinking of her on her "birthday" (one month) the other day. Hope you guys are doing well!!! ;)
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