The Great Escape

Since the Babe was born, I have not had many nights away from her.  In fact, only once up until last week. This past week was our wedding anniversary, so my husband planned a night away.  Now our reason for the night away may not be as exciting as it sounds- we wanted to order a pizza and eat it in our room, perhaps rent a movie or at the very least watch regular programming (no Disney or Sprout), and not be awoken in the middle of the night by our child.  This is probably a typical night for many people, but not for us.

We stayed within an hour of our home, and had our excellent sitter stay with the Babe.  The Babe was excited because she had been asking to have a "sleepover" with the sitter for a few weeks.  While we had arranged to go away way before her request, this made it easier.  My only concern was how the Babe would handle waking up in the middle of the night without me here, and secondly, waking in the morning without us.  Silly me, she had no problem.  In fact, during the night when she woke she called out our sitters name, and soon went right back to sleep. 

Our night away was exactly what we wanted.  We were able to enjoy ourselves because 1) we knew the Babe was in good hands; 2) we weren't too far away; and 3) we still enjoy each other's company.  Happy Anniversary to Us!