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A night away

My sister asked for a post about our highly anticipated overnighter without kids this past weekend, and it has taken three nights to get past the exhaustion to write this!  We had a great time but stayed out waaaaaay past our bedtime and paid for it!

A month or so ago my mom asked if she could have the kiddos each stay the night at her house for a little one on one time.  I joked and said yes, but I really needed them all to go there or her to come our way so that Jordan and I could go to the Needtobreathe concert.  To my delight she said "Yes!"  While we have had date nights without the kids for a couple hours this would be the first time in 3 1/2 Years that we would not have kids for the overnight!  CRAZY!

Saturday morning I had to leave before 8:00 am to be in Ames to set up for the women's seminar so Jordan took the kids to my parents.  (They didn't cry when he left, or for bedtimes.  Elise didn't even reach for me when my folks brought them back. 29 1/2 hours without me, and she didn't care!)  My sister picked me up after the seminar for a much needed hair appointment.  (What am I going to do when she leaves me...sniff, sniff.)  Jordan picked me up from her house, and we went to an Ames favorite, The Cafe.  After that we went out for frozen yogurt. (Jordan owes me for that one because I really wanted a Jamocha shake from Burgies, but he wasn't in the mood. I loves me some Burgies Jamocha shakes and will cash in on this some Sunday morning soon!)  The concert didn't start until 9:00, yes that is p.m.  I am normally in my jams by 9:00, but I drank so coffee and stayed awake!  We had some time kill and walked around campus a bit.  It is wonderful how conversation just keeps going and going as you walk.  It was great.

Ben Rector opened the concert.  This was a great surprise.  We hadn't really listened to him before, and he was really good.  He loves on both the piano and guitar so that was an easy win for Jordan.  We downloaded two of his albums when we got home.  Needtobreathe did not disappoint. 

It was pretty funny realization that the last concert we went to was a Dino piano concert.  At that concert we were one of the few in that audience that hadn't soaked our teeth in a dish the night before. A piano concert at a church at 2:00 in the afternoon is going to attract an older crowd.  This was in contrast to the Ben Rector/Needtobreathe audience that was much, much younger.  It was evident that they loved their smart phones and fermented drinks!  We felt very old wondering "Why these young people couldn't get off Facebook and enjoy the moment?" 

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