We had a sitter watch the girls for the evening so we could have a date night. We headed to Flagstaff and enjoyed a delicious five course meal.  I gotta give some love to Top Chef….if it wasn’t for that wonderful little cooking competition I don’t think I could have pronounced much on the menu.

We told a little white lie when we were leaving the house. We told the girls we were going to get batteries for their flashlights. It was just an innocent fib. We were trying to save ourselves drama. No meltdowns. No tears.

When we arrived home, the house was quiet and the sitter said the girls had been in bed for over an hour. I went upstairs to find a little faker….Annabelle was pretending to be asleep but when she realized it was me checking on her she quickly sat up and said “do you have the batteries? you and daddy were at the store for a LONG time!”. Oops! Nothing gets by this girl anymore.

She was wide awake so downstairs she wandered and got her latest Rolling Stone update….