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Having two children means that life is never dull, rarely boring and usually revolves around their social lives. It never ceases to amaze me that both my 2 year old and 8 year old get more party invitations than I do, especially as you never really grow out of jelly and ice cream do you? Do you?

We have lots of friends with children, so our socialising is usually centred around something that we can do to include the children or if we have a babysitter, we are going out for someone's birthday or a specific celebration.

It is rare for us to actually go out on our own for no other reason than to enjoy each other's company,

like a date,

like those early days,

like couples do every weekend.

Typically the madness of the day took over and I didn't get the soak in the bath that I wanted but the man on the pad said we should grab dinner out rather than waste time cooking something, so I jumped in the shower and threw my glad rags on! It has been ages since we have been out on our own and we were going to see some live music, I don't mean an arena show like my daughters favourite One Direction or the throwback Boyzone tour 2013, we were going to see a local band in Solihull.

Despite it being Friday 13th, it was a great day and even the rain wasn't going to keep us down, although I did chuckle to myself that once upon a time I wouldn't have even considered taking an umbrella but throwing a coat over my head wasn't going to keep my shoulders warm was it? (I think I must be seriously getting old). So with my jacket and umbrella we headed out.

We held hands.

We danced.

We laughed.

We sang.

We remembered what we were about.

I loved being out, being me, being us and as for the music, that was pretty awesome too!

The band rocked it .........  just not quite as much date night.

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