Guess what?  Joel and I had our first sleepover, WITHOUT THE BOYS, this past weekend.  After a particularly tiring day last Wednesday, Joel looked me in the eyes and stated “the timing could be better but I wanted you to know that I’ve arranged everything and on Saturday, you and I are escaping to Anacortes for the night.  I’m assuming you’d want to know now, otherwise you’d panic, right?  We’re going to stay at the Majestic Inn again.”  I looked at him and said “Yes – crap, I’m already missing the boys and we haven’t’ gone anywhere yet.  Oh – did you get the spa package?????”  “Well, yes and that ruins that surprise, Katie.”  That’s when I kissed him.

The next morning, Laura finally succumbed to the cold and so I got to stay home with the boys.  This helped to alleviate the missing portion of my comment from the night before.  Don’t get me wrong, the boys couldn’t have been sweeter that day and it was just what I needed.  My mom came over on Friday to watch Nicholas and Dexter in order to help ensure a healthy Laura, who was vital to our weekend plans.  That night I wrote out possible scenarios of what Nurse Heather could expect and this task was extremely tough.  Dexter had had an off week and who knew if Saturday was going to be a two nap or one nap day and would they want to eat or reject everything.  WOW – it was too much to think about and after two pages of instructions, I gave up.  By the way, is Heather not the greatest person in the world for volunteering to take the night shift?

Then the big day arrived, Saturday.  Of course Nicholas and Dexter woke up at 6am and were pretty whiney from the start.  I think they could tell this was not going to be a normal day.  Two naps it was.  After an extended breakfast (they ate theirs and once I sat down to eat mine, they wanted that one too), we headed upstairs for shower time.  Couldn’t leave anything but sweet smelling boys for Heather.  Still whiney after the shower so it was time to head to the mall.  Once again, all “talking” ceased and Nicholas and Dexter actually wanted to hold our hands as we strolled through the mall.  We stopped at Borders to pick up a gift and it was in the children’s book room that Nicholas and Dexter finally decided to explore on their own.  Let me tell you, that was fun.  Luckily, they didn’t destroy anything.  They also handled snack time quite well at the Seattle’s Best coffee room inside of Borders and only at the end did Nicholas decide he’d had enough of waiting and it was time to go.  When he decided this, I had just turned my head to look for my purse.  Again WOW – two seconds and he’d disappeared.  I was freaked and shouted to Joel, “Nic’s gone!”  Luckily, Joel had eyes on him and told me where to find him.  Baby on the run.  I did not let Nic’s hand free of mine until we got back to the van.  Also, coffee lids make great toys.  Both Nic and Dex had a death grip on their coffee lids for the rest of the mall walk and car ride home.

We put the boys down for their first nap once we got home, packed, finalized instructions, ate lunch, and did not make it out before they woke up.  Personally, I think Joel and I both wanted to say goodbye.  After many kisses, we left them in Laura’s capable hands.  She was going to watch them until Heather arrived, around 4pm and then take them back from Heather at 6:30am the next morning.  It was all planned.  Joel and I hopped into his car and off we went.  It took all of 5 minutes before one of us broke down and stated we missed them.

The Majestic Inn is a beautiful Hotel and Spa located in downtown Anacortes.  For roughly 22 hours, we had adult conversation, uninterrupted meals, no frustrations, and quiet time to ourselves.  I picked up a book and read.  Oh, it was heavenly.  That’s all I wanted to do.  We were late to our spa appointment because of it.  The TV stayed off and there was no baby monitor in the room.  In my instructions to Heather, I had stated that I would call at 8:30pm to check in.  I actually lasted that long.  Everything went well.  No problems.

The next morning, Joel and I met my cousin Scott and his wife Susan for breakfast.  The snow started to fall and then by the time we left, it was sticking the sidewalks.  By the time we got on I-5 headed home, our hour long drive turned into 2 hours.  Seriously, there was not that much snow on the ground – maybe a half an inch and yet we passed no fewer that 10 cars off into the ditch between Mt Vernon and Arlington.  It was frustrating.

When we finally reached home, the boys were up from nap #1 and happy to see us.  They then took our leaving out on us the rest of the day though a variety of methods and all that relaxing went out the window and frustration entered in.  Oh well, it was really nice while it lasted……   Thank you Joel.  You are the world’s best husband, ever!

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