Well, tonight was quite interesting. For the last few weeks, h and I had been planning to go to a local "sockhop". (he and I used to love to go dancing but have since grown out of the bar scene) Actually, I had asked him to go, back before I discovered the fun and effectiveness of 180's and was still trying to arrange time together. But I could tell he wasn't really all that into it, so the new me, said that's ok if he didn't feel like it, I'd just go with 15yo dd. (she's lots of fun and always up for anything) But he said no, he'd go, with the tone of voice like I was dragging him to the guillotine. Anyways, it was a dress up party, so I dressed up as Marilyn Monroe and off we went. We got there and he just sat there, like a bump on a log, acting like he'd rather be anywhere else in the world. So of course I'm realizing that the fun evening I'd hope for was not going to happen, and instead of tears like normal, I suggested we return home and get the kids, mentioning how the older ones would enjoy the dancing, to fairly clean music even, and the baby would love all the balloons on the floor. He perked up at that and that's what we did, evening bringing along one of the kid's friends. We get back to the dance and we're tossing balloons around, dancing to a song by kc and the sunshine band, and really starting to have fun, for the first time in a long time, when we look around and notice something a little strange. And it dawns on us all at the same time that practically everyone there except our family were same sex couples! Almost as one, we finally look at the big banner saying "Gay Pride Sockhop". We all look at each other and just burst out laughing!! We stayed and danced and laughed for hours. I even won the costume contest, but then considering that my competition was a male Marilyn Monroe, it wasn't too hard. Needless to say, it was the best time we've had together as a family in forever, it seems. Almost like old times. I had almost forgotten how much fun we used to have together, even when things didn't go quite as planned. Like the time when we were headed to my grandmother's funeral, and somehow took a wrong turn and ended up in the wrong state! And how we just laughed about it and took pictures in front of the state sign, like what the heck? ... how'd we end up here? Thankfully we also had the time of the funeral wrong too so we still got there in time for the actual funeral. Anyways, after we got the little kids to bed, we sat and reminisced about old times, and h gave me several "real" hugs and kisses. He even said he wished he didn't have to give the kid's friend a ride home cuz then maybe I'd let him stay! We also made arrangements to spend tomorrow together as a family at a local festival. All stuff we used to do. All in all, a very nice evening... good music, good exercise, and even some comic relief!
