There is nothing I enjoy more than a date night with my husband!  However, this summer I am discovering a whole new meaning to date night.  Last fall I was fortunate to win a pretty good stash of cinema cash from a local radio station.  Thus, I have been heading out with one of or both of my oldest boys to a movie on occasion.  We haven’t been attending the summer movie matinees because my 2 year old has not mastered movie theatre etiquette yet.  We tried taking him when Toy Story 3 came out thinking it would be the perfect movie to take him too since he has loved Toy Story since last fall.  Alas that was not the case.  Since then however, I have started to realize how much my oldest two boys have started to grow up and how much fun it is to go on a “date” with them.  Especially with my 7 year old as he and I don’t seem to get the time together just the two of us with him in school. Then that makes me realize how that will soon be the same with my middle son as he starts full day school in just a few weeks.  I can’t believe how the past 8 years have flown by, which makes me think that the next 8 are probably going to go even faster.  Somehow I am guessing that when my boys are 16 and 14 it is not going to be totally cool to go on a date with me!  In the meanwhile I will take advantage of my boys being used to bedtime at 8pm and it being totally cool to go to a movie with mom and getting to stay up until a whopping 9:30!