Girls' Night Out, March 16th

Hello, Dear Blog. Remember me? Oh you poor, forsaken thing. I know it's been far too long since my last post, but I fear that is probably how it will be from now until... oh... FOREVER. Who knew that adding another baby to the mix would take up every last little bit of "free time" I used to think I had? (Yes, yes, I see you, all you parents of multiple children who are waving your hands in the air.) I know, I know. Really, though, I am sad I don't have time to blog the way I would like to anymore. There are several more recipes from Pinterest that I've tried lately that I want to share on here, and I'm so behind on updating about life in general. I'll do my best to get caught up over the next several days (do NOT hold me to that, though, because you more than likely will end up disappointed...), but for now, I wanted to post about the Girls' Night Out that the ladies from my Sunday school class had a few weeks ago.
We decided to meet at Olive Garden for dinner and fellowship. I LOVE Olive Garden, and I was definitely up for a little grown-up girl time. I am so blessed to be able to stay at home and take care of my babies every day, but sometimes, I NEED to get out of the house and have a little adult interaction.
Jordan got home from work that Friday evening and took over Daddy-duty, and I headed out the door to the restaurant. It was my first time out by myself since Ryan was born. It felt a little weird not having him with me, but I knew he was in good hands at home.
I got to the restaurant and joined two of the girls from our Sunday school class who were already waiting to be seated. Right after I walked in the door, a waitress escorted the three of us to our reserved table. Shortly after that, the rest of the ladies arrived. There were nine of us there altogether that evening. I'd say it was a pretty good turnout for our first Girls' Night Out.
I think I speak for everyone when I say we had a really enjoyable night. The food was really yummy (duh... we were at Olive Garden), and it felt so good to just sit around a table with other women going through some of the same challenges I am as a wife and mom and just talk and laugh about life. I think we were there for about two hours before we finally wrapped things up for the evening. I ended up running across the street to Target with my friend, Brittany (one of the girls in the Sunday school class with me) to grab a potato masher, since I was planning to try the Pioneer Woman's recipe for creamy mashed potatoes the next day (this is one of the recipes I'm planning to post about if/when I ever have the time). After that, we parted ways and headed home.
We're planning to have another Girls' Night Out later this month, and I can't wait. We don't have set plans for what we'll be doing yet, but I'm sure that, whatever we end up doing, I'll enjoy it. I'm so blessed to have a loving church family - and specifically a Sunday school class that focuses on the stage of life I'm currently in as a "young adult", and I'm so thankful for the opportunity to fellowship with each other every now and then for support and encouragement.
I took my camera with me that evening in case we had our waitress snap a picture of all of us at dinner, but of course that didn't happen (which is fine). I did have Jordan take a few pictures of me with my babies before I left the house, though, so I figure I'll share those instead...

Until next time...