Date Night.

Dear Diary, 


     You know when you're young...and you can just be friends with whoever you want and when your personalities don't mesh you just sort of let them fade away? Well fast forward "x" number of years and now you're married. Friends become a bit sparse. Not only do you need to find a woman that gets along well enough with you but also a man who doesn't bore your sports-loving husband with his thoughts on saving the rainforest from wild-life haters (or vice versa). Every now and then you can find that perfect couple, but it doesn't come easy, and it often doesn't come without a price. Well once you have children, you can basically throw everything you knew about making friends out the window because now the game has just gotten increasingly more complex. Here are the choices we've got:


*The couple with no kids: These guys are the best. They remind you of yourselves before you had kids. Fun loving, adventurous, and don't have a bedtime. Now, you've gotta arrange your "dates" around when your little monsters need to hit the sack. 


*The couple with less kids than you: This couple is also fun, but less flexible because they are still in the mindset that their lives are busy. They are just unaware of what life will bring when # 2 strikes, so you find yourselves having to get together at just the perfect time- when their nugget just wakes up from a nap and before yours go down for the night. It's almost impossible to coordinate when 3+ kids need naps. Someone's gotta give and it usually isn't them.


*The couple with more kids than you: You have now become the couple mentioned above and you think their house is a bit...crazy. Hanging out with them is just too much effort when all the kiddos are involved so your "hang outs" result in finding sitters so you can actually hear one another when you talk.


*The couple with kids you love: Their kids are so sweet, and you wonder why on Earth yours aren't that angelic. You realize your kid/s are always making theirs cry and all of the sudden you stop wondering why you never hang out...


*The couple with kids you can't stand: This is the worst. You love the parents, hate the kids. It basically results in you never seeing one another. 


Things can get pretty tricky, like I said. So, you can either play the game or you can be anti-social. Both are perfectly acceptable options in my opinion. Some nights you just wanna veg out in your undies, watch Shark Week and eat some cheese puffs. I say do it. 


Sincerely, 


Me. 


P.S. This is probably my favorite ecard so I made it extra big for everyone. : )