Have I Told You Lately.................

Tonight our beautiful sweet daughter wanted us to have a nice romantic dinner.  She coerced convinced her brothers into helping out.  We were told only that we had to stay out of sight from 4-6, yes I hated that.  That meant that from 4pm until 6pm I had to lay on my bed and read a book.  Earlier in the day Allye picked out a nice outfit for me and Scott to wear, she even selected jewelry for me.

At the appointed time we were called to the dining room, where we were greeted by four servers with dazzling smiles, think "Be Our Guest" from Beauty and the Beast.
Allye had her hands full getting the boys in line but she managed to get them  to dress up a bit.  Tucker wore a blue striped shirt with a yellow and blue tie and jeans.  Landry went with a red black plaid shirt, black pants and a red and blue striped tie.  Ash went with the old stand-by of green shirt with camo PJ pants.  I think I heard it cost Allye a dollar or two to get him that dressed up.  They were set up with towels over the arm and everything.


We were served ceasar salads first with french bread and saltines (the darkest ones available).  Lasagna was next, it was very tasty and I only had to send it back for reheating once.  During the lasagna course, our servers were very attentive,  Landry even walked over and offered me the towel on his arm for wiping my mouth.  They even made sure there were no awkward silences.  Allye tried to get the boys to take the hint about quietly standing by and giving us our time together.  The way the boys interpreted this was to say, "Mam, Sir would you care for your waiters to converse with you today?"  Of course we said yes and the first thing Tucker said was "You may admire my shoes."  He had very kindly worn his church shoes.....

After dinner we were escorted into the living room for dancing.   It was very romantically lit with every light in the room on, we turned some off and I could hear them whispering, "Man we just turned those on!"  They "left" us alone to dance although we could see them peeking around the corner.  They found it all very amusing.  After some slow dancing, the DJ went for some upbeat music and all six of us danced together.

Next up we were sent to our room to get our jammies on, so of course we did.  When we returned to the living room it was arranged for cozy movie watching, snuggies were laid out, brownies were in the oven and the Princess Bride was set to play.  We were brought beverages during the movie and as required we were each brought our anti-inflammatory of choice and ice packs for our bum shoulders.  A more romantic evening I couldn't ask for!