Our calendar at home has said ‘busy’ on the 21st of December, so I suspected something was on, although Monique had dodged the question pretty well.  So while wondered vaguely who it was that was busy, Monique had organised my Christmas present -  a trip to Spamalot, as well as a night at a hotel, and the kids to stay over at Mark and Bern’s for the night. They had originally organised it as a total suprise, Mon was going to knock of work early and pick me up without telling me where we were going, but then they decided on Thursday night that the kids wanted to give me the present too.

The secret was really well kept, Mon had packed for us, and the kids had packed and shipped their stuff over to Mark and Bern’s earlier in the week, and I was oblivious.  Even Beccy had kept the secret from me when I picked Ash up on Wednesday.

We had a really great night, it’s so good to stop and really spend time just with each other, and you don’t get to do that in the normal week, even if you do sit down together you’re just so wrecked from work and parenting.  It’s good to take yourself out of ‘reality’ for a while and reconnect with each other.

We had dinner at 1884 Wine and Steak Bar in Little Bourke St, good food and friendly staff, then after the gut bustingly funny show, we pretended to be grownups and went back to our room at the hotel.

It was a great night, hope your Christmas is half as good as that!