Hello Fall – First Date Post-Baby

I grew up in a place where the leaves did not change color—they just blew away! Each year that I experience Fall, it really feels like a magical time and makes saying goodbye to summer a little less terrifying. For the wife of a wrestling coach, Fall means the start of wrestling season and not seeing him from November through March. He came home the other day with this year’s new wrestling jackets for the coaches’ wives and could not wait for the season to start. Since we will soon be seeing a lot less of each other, we figured it was about time we went on a proper date without babies or kids. “Alone time”. It’s been so long since we’ve had said alone time that as soon as we got some amazing babysitters lined up, we literally sat there and wondered what to do for our date and remained in that stupor of a state until the hour before go time!

It was the first time we left baby, and we were hardly prepared. I thought we could just grab a bottle, frozen milk, and go. I guess the last time we used a bottle he was still on an ultra-preemie nipple flow, which is about two to three steps below where he’d possibly be today. We hunted down all the bottle parts, sanitized them in boiling water, thawed the frozen milk, and put it all together at the last minute.

After dropping off the kids, we headed to Cubby’s! I had a Houdini burger (I had to try the onion rings in it!) and Rosemary fries. Jeremy had a Dragonslayer and Buffalo fries. We stuffed ourselves over a heated discussion on the history, purpose, and economics of minimum wage. Then we took a drive to Jolley’s Ranch for a few holes of disc golf. Jeremy taught me not to throw it like a frisbee, but rather to throw it with more elbow motion like I’m starting up a lawn mower and bringing the disc from “nipple to nipple” across the chest. It’s not a natural motion if you’ve been throwing discs like frisbees your whole life! I loved just slowing down and playing with my sweetheart.