Comments on: The Hopeless Romantic Has Left the Building

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:13:12 +0000

I hear ya on this one…even your birthday is not your own with kids…

Beautiful wife pic…

By: tz

tz — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:23:49 +0000

oh I thought of your post yesterday when my son said..’mom, Austin didn’t babysit us very well’ I asked why (and let me tell you a bit freaked out too) and son laughed and said, ‘he didn’t sit on us’

whew

but seriously, where did that word come from?

By: Daddy Forever

Daddy Forever — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:59:33 +0000

Too bad the sun dance doesn’t work in the winter.

By: Ann

Ann — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:15:08 +0000

HA! I do that sun dance, too!!!!

By: Daddy Forever

Daddy Forever — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:37:17 +0000

And then we get to tag along on their anniversaries, right?

By: Leslie

Leslie — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:14:05 +0000

Dave and I are the same way. Kids aren’t kids forever. We’re trying to enjoy them before they go off and end up with anniversaries of their own.

By: Daddy Forever

Daddy Forever — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:18:31 +0000

Not sure about that. When the Little Princess is old enough to be interested in boys, I’ll have to follow her every where.

By: Daddy Forever

Daddy Forever — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:16:52 +0000

And the weather was perfect. Sunny, but not hot.

By: Shanny

Shanny — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:45:51 +0000

LOL! As you said it; Good thing kids didn’t come in on your honeymoon! We feel the same way as well when we left him with a sitter. Our evening wasn’t that great afterall… :p

No worries! I’m sure your romantic side will crawl out by the time kids hit the teen years! ;)

By: Mrs. C

Mrs. C — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:13:07 +0000

Oh, that actually looks like a lot of fun! I think that’s about ten thousand steps up from Target! Congrats!

By: Daddy Forever

Daddy Forever — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:09:03 +0000

In that case, I’ll write about my wife during the Christmas holidays and that could be her present.

By: Daddy Forever

Daddy Forever — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:06:02 +0000

I bet your kids don’t tell you what they want for “their” anniversary presents.

By: Half-Past Kissin' Time

Half-Past Kissin' Time — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 22:15:24 +0000

What do you mean? You’ve written about your wife twice in a row! That’s very romantic :)

By: mert

mert — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:59:03 +0000

I hear you… our kids are with us everywhere. I don’t get any peace even on the throne.

But, in years to come your kids will hopefully appreciate the fact that you included them.

By: Daddy Forever

Daddy Forever — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:28:05 +0000

Sorry, the romantic side of my brain no longer functions. Maybe I should just buy my wife a toy like I do with the kids.

By: kris

kris — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:55:01 +0000

Don’t they still? Sit on them I mean? ;P

I’m sure you could muster up SOME romance with the flowers and gifts for no reason thing… :O)

By: Daddy Forever

Daddy Forever — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:24:07 +0000

My kids like daddy sitting. Even better is daddy jumping. They like to jump up and down on my chest. Ouch.

By: Daddy Forever

Daddy Forever — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:22:26 +0000

I think by the time my kids are teenagers, I’m suppose to have a midlife crisis and run off with someone half my age.

By: Daddy Forever

Daddy Forever — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:17:47 +0000

That’s nice of you to assume my son didn’t already shoot the old people with the water canon last week.

By: Daddy Forever

Daddy Forever — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:14:03 +0000

What? Teenagers don’t want to hang out with mom and dad on Valentines day? How can that be possible?

By: Daddy Forever

Daddy Forever — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:10:54 +0000

I guess that means I don’t need to buy jewelry for my wife anymore, right?

By: Daddy Forever

Daddy Forever — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:08:42 +0000

The Little Princess likes Grease too. But we make her close her eyes during certain scenes.

By: Daddy Forever

Daddy Forever — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:07:23 +0000

You’re right. We’ll miss these days when the kids are older.

By: Daddy Forever

Daddy Forever — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:05:42 +0000

Well, it’s a good thing we didn’t have kids when we went on our honeymoon.

By: peepnroosmom

peepnroosmom — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:12:02 +0000

Every day is Kids Day here, too!
Some kids need to be sat on.

By: Chris H

Chris H — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:59:50 +0000

Stuff taking the kids on a ‘romantic’ evening out! OH but then, I’ve been a parent so much longer than you, and gone through the teenage years already…. you DO KNOW those kids are going to morph into NOT SO NICE teenagers eh? Enjoy them now…. ya poor bugger. LOL (it really isn’t that bad)

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:05:40 +0000

I like the couple in that second picture staring at your kids. Hey Spiderboy, turn that thing around and shoot the old people.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:38:18 +0000

I agree with everyone else that its sweet that the whole family is involved. When their older (like mine) their involvement is more intrusive for them. In fact they try hard not to be around for the anniversary or Valentines day celebrations.

Enjoy them now, they grow up fast.

By: Desert Songbird

Desert Songbird — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:44:13 +0000

Your day is what you make it, and it looks like the day was fun for all. Lots of memories were made, and there’s nothing more important than that.

Romance isn’t all that grand. Hubby sometimes makes the sweet gestures, and those mean a lot to me because they’re few and precious. Mostly I like hanging with the family. He does, too, and the kids want it, so why not?

By: tz

tz — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:42:45 +0000

I think there’s romance also in enjoying your whole family….

that is interesting, I wonder where baby sitter came from?

also..mama mia…(your comment left on my blog) it’s hard to say if it’s okay for an 8 year old, we were discussing it ourselves, and one parent is going to take her girls to see it, we kind of thought it would be in the same light as Grease…when I was a girl I saw that and loved it and sang all the songs around the house….then I saw it as an adult and WOW….that movie was laden w/ imagry and who knows what else that I HAD NO IDEA existed when I was a girl…

don’t know if that helps but that was our after movie discussion about taking kiddos to see it….

By: Holly Schwendiman

Holly Schwendiman — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:14:51 +0000

Times and seasons I say. :) Looks like a fun day and I doubt very much that your wife would have as much fun alone either…her mind would be with yours. :) Far too soon we’ll be back to the stage of life without kids underfoot 24×7 and we’ll wonder how it went so fast.

Hugs,
Holly

By: momto3cubs

momto3cubs — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:50:00 +0000

“our anniversary has become Kids Day” LOL :) Ain’t that the truth!

I agree with your post. Every holiday and special date now seems to center around the kids!

Looks like you had a wonderful day. It wouldn’t have been as fun without the kids, right? :)