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Date night!
My husband and I have really made an effort these last few months to have at least one date a week. WITHOUT kids.
We are blessed to have the help of my mother in law to make this happen.
Last week, we decided on dinner and dancing. Which is a little bit funny as I am having a problem with my right foot. But that is another whole post. Damn body.
Our favorite type of meal is sushi. And I love that because I can always find something to eat that doesn’t bother me (food allergies). I just bring my own soy sauce, stay away from the breaded stuff and sauces and I am good to go.
On our date night, I get all dolled up, grab my purse and head out for a night WITHOUT kids (wait did I mention that already?).
We decide to try a new restaurant and have a bit of trouble finding it among all the construction nightmare around the DFW airport (I do believe that Texas is in a state of perpetual construction).
Then..my stomach lurches a bit. I forgot my soy sauce. I usually always carry my soy sauce and my salad dressings (in individual packets people…can you just picture me whipping out bottles of sauces??). If I don’t have my soy sauce, then sushi just sucks. Sorry, gotta have my sodium.
Well, I think to myself, I will just call the restaurant. You know, cause more and more Japanese restaurants are carrying gluten-free soy sauce. The one by our house does….
“Do you carry gluten-free soy sauce?” I ask the nice gentleman that answers.
“What?”
“Do you carry gluten-free soy sauce?” Cause if you emphasize what you mean they surely will understand. And agree with you. Surely.
“I don’t know what that is”.
So the answer is no. Ooook.
First we try the Tom Thumb next to the restaurant. No deal.
How about the Wal-Mart that is down the street from the restaurant (the one by my house is now carrying gluten-free options so surely this one will too..wait..there is a trend here..perhaps I need to stay by my house). No deal.
OK, time to buckle down. Grab iPhone, open safari and search for a Market Street. SCORE! One is about five miles away. Five, long, traffic congested, construction filled miles away.
Needless to say, we missed our reservations, by a lot. BUT, I got my damn sauce, had delicious sushi and hobbled on the dance floor the rest of the night.
Hand me another glass of wine so I can’t feel my stinkin’ foot will ya?
Cheers!
You have a wonderful mother in law! Time together is so important for a marriage.
It’s a priority for us
All through the year, getting out never happens, except in summer, when family comes to our rescue. My parents are taking our kids for a whole week in September and my wife and I already have our evenings planned. (I keep thanking them profusely in between expressions of, “are you nuts?!”)
There is something about not having the opportunity to go out more often that makes us appreciate the time we have together more.
And you’re right… sushi just isn’t sushi without the sodium to go along with it!!
Wow!!! I think..I would break mentally without our dates. But..I am a true whimp.
I hear ya though-I can imagine how amazing each moment y’all will have will be!! 
at least you got a night out! Dinner and dancing sounds fun! I wish we had a resturant around here that had both. Romantic dinner first, then dancing after. I wonder why that is so hard to find!?
It is!! We still had to go to two different places. And I truly am grateful for my date nights!!!!
My daughter and fam are moving to CA in a week. I’ll miss #2, #5, and #7, and K and hubbie will miss date nights and having an on-call babysitter.
Not having family around is tough:(
Awesome. And very cool that you live in dfw too. I love the sushi on glade and 121 California avocado. It makes my heart smile.
I will have to try it!!! My fav is in Frisco on Lebanon and tollway-Kotta sushi
I love sushi, too! I didn’t know regular soy sauce as gluten in it? Anyway, now I’m trying liquid aminos.
Yes it’s 60% wheat :/ I use liquid aminos too for all my cooking!! Love it!! They just don’t sell individual packets yet-ha!
Mmmmm! Every sauce by San-J is amazing
Glad that your date night wasn’t totally ruined…I’d start stashing packets in the car, just in case!
Such a great idea (duh!). Doing that today!! Ty
Date nights are SO vital! We try to at least have one “at home date night” (as we call them) a week and one “going out date night” a month. That is great that your mother-in-law is willing to babysit! I wish my family lived closer, so we could use them more. BTW, I feel the same way about California, it seems to always be in a state of perpetual construction!
You are do right about date nights
I used to live in So Cal and ya, there was a lot going on there to-construction wise 
drives me nuts how things are draaaaaaged out. :/