Since last August our foster children, by law must have 2 sibling visits a month with their two of their older siblings that are also in the system. While having 8 children under one roof a month is not so bad most times, it is a pain in the ass at times. What we do love about these sibiling visits is that our foster children leave us for one weekend. What the king and I have done is taken our chilren out for dinner on Friday nights and rent movies (with tons of popcorn) on Saturday nights.  But since December with the weather being below zero instead of taking the kids out in that kind of weather the king and I went out a few times ourselves, a much needed time away from all of our kids. It is so nice to be able to spend a few hours with the king without the crying and screaming and fighting. This past month we did something a little different, something we have been trying to do since last October. We had dinner with adults! The kings cousin and his wife joined us for some adult conversation which was really nice. We hope that his cousins had a good time as well. I really didn’t want the night to end and I cannot wait to do it again. Of course they did tell us that once we get our pool they will be at our house a lot, which I hope is true because they are fun to be around. Not sure what we will do in April but with the weather “trying” to warm up we will probably start taking our kids to dinner again, we do have a good time taking them it feels so good to be our little family again if only for one weekend a month.

Thanks E&L for a nice night out.