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Mom's night out
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Posted by heatherijames Sun Sep 7, 2008 19:53:52 PDT
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            Husbands have had a meal prepared for them, children have received a soft kiss good-bye, and mommas are rolling out of driveways in their SUV’s and minivan’s dressed like they just about lost their ninny minds.  What’s going on, you ask? It’s Mom’s Night Out and the ladies are loose. 

 

            Destination: Christina’s house, Northwest Bakersfield.  Event: Pajama Party and Fuzzy Slipper Game Night.  Potluck style, of course!  There’s a contest for best pajama and the trophy is a bottle of wine.  It might be needed for those up and coming cold winter nights we know are right around the corner. When daddies don’t come home until it’s dark and the children have been up since before dawn.

 

            I’m wearing a little number I like to call Before and After.  I have my regular pajamas on underneath.  Oversized T-shirt from my alma mater and baggy pants that fall to the floor.  You know…the type I could fit two of myself in.  Over that, I have my sexiest lingerie on.  It’s black and see-through with red lace stitching on the bustier.  Get it?  Before and After?  If you don’t get it, think it through some more.  If you still don’t get it, you’re not a wife and mother. 

 

            I put makeup on but smudged it up a bit to look like I slept on it.  My hair is tossed and teased in several different directions yet, I still show up with a chocolate glazed hazelnut mousse cake and it looks like a million dollars.

 

            I didn’t win the contest but defeat was accepted willingly after seeing my friend Peejay’s outfit.  The best way to describe it was Mimi from Drew Carey with rollers in her hair.  It was priceless and pleasantly shocking.  More shocking was how interested we all were when Peejay told us we could buy muumuus at Wal-Mart. 

 

            We ate, we talked, we laughed, someone spilled a red beverage on the carpet, and I told everyone about my salt on the stain trick as we put the party on hold to spot treat.  We played board games, talked, and laughed some more then lit candles on my cake and sang Happy Birthday to one of our own.  After I threw a teensy fit wanting the term “Weight Watcher Points” banned from the evening, a few women and I partook of the cake. 

 

We quieted in the dimming glimmer of the night, knowing that our evening was coming to an end.  Only one husband called during the adventure and my friend’s comment and tone pretty much summed up the joint female reaction to being bothered.  “Is that it?  Is that why you called me?  Yes, the dishwasher is clean."

 

 

 

 

Christina’s husband and children returned home and we knew it was time to leave.  We all drove home hoping for two things.  One, fire trucks weren’t parked with their lights spinning in front of our houses, and two, not a child was still awake.

  

 

 

I used to find total and complete pleasure in spending every weekend moment with my family and would often shun the thought of leaving them for some girl time.  That is until I learned one very important lesson: girls need girl time, especially when they’re women.  

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Comment From: sunnica

Oh. Check OUT Heather's outfit! OMGosh!!!! You... are... HOT! haha!! You gals looked like you had such a great time. I didn't know about salt, either, so that's a great tip. :) A red beverage, huh? Comment From: CarlaMom2AnS

HAHAHA - this cracks me up!! Such a good time! Comment From: dweaver3

Your pajama party looks like so much fun! Your costume rocked and I bet your cake was fabulous — sooooo cute!