Every Friday night is date night in our house. Marty and I don't usually do anything too exciting, usually either dinner or dessert. If we eat dessert, we we’ll take it to go and find a quiet spot to visit, while enjoying the sweets. I’ve really come to enjoy the standard night out.

This past Friday night was the world premier of Cheetah Girls One World movie on Disney channel. The girls asked if they could have a premier party and watch the movie. Not even thinking about date night, I agreed. Before I knew it, the girls had invited over 25 girls to come to the house. 18 showed up. Marty and I decided we would move our date to Saturday.

Saturday morning we decided to make it a “date day” instead of a “date night”. The plan was to go help the Bradley’s move, help the Well’s rearrange furniture, run to the little Debbie store in Gentry, grab some lunch, do some shopping for the upcoming ward party, and then grab some dinner. We’d successfully done the first two things on our list. After a trip to Gentry, we discovered the store’s closed on Saturday (who closes when everyone’s off work?). On the way home from Gentry, we happened upon a one car accident. We were the first one’s on the scene but didn’t have cell phone service. Another car came along about the same time. We talked to the two people hanging in the car (on it’s side) until emergency responders came on the scene. Then we headed off to lunch. After lunch, we were TIRED. We’d had a full day by then. We headed home to take a nap. As soon as I woke up from nap, Jessica was insistant that our date continued. Warning bells started going off. Why would a 12 year old want her parents out on a Saturday night? We started quizzing her. She just kept saying that she wanted to make sure we got our full date. Yeah right! She then started joking that she was planning a huge party and needed to know what time we’d be home. She needed to make sure that she had time to move all the furniture to the garage, have the party, and clean up. She wanted to invite all the boys over for a dance party. Her friend Shelby kept reassuring us that she wouldn’t let Jessi have a party. Shelby she had Bishop and Brother Bacoccini on speed dial. She said if the party started, she’d give them a call. Jessica thought it would be great idea to invite Buck to the party.

After threatening Jessi to have no parties, we did go out to dinner. Am I ready to have teenagers? Am I ready to have boys at the house? When did my cute little girls grow up to be young ladies? When did I get old enough to have teenagers? Am I old enough to have teenagers? Will I survive? My parents did, so I suppose I will too.