{"id":89,"date":"2011-06-18T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/saturday-night-with-vannand-ladies\/"},"modified":"2018-04-21T17:22:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T17:22:25","slug":"saturday-night-with-vannand-ladies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/saturday-night-with-vannand-ladies\/","title":{"rendered":"A Saturday Night With Vann\u2026and The Ladies."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So last Christmas Vann and I were at Costco and happened upon the complete series (including both movies \u2013 good and bad) of \u201cSex and the City\u201d.&#160; Of course, we had to pick it up.&#160;   Now, Courtney (my dear roomie from my first few years in Chicago) and I didn\u2019t have HBO back in the day \u2013 so we had to meet at Tavern 33 on Lincoln Ave. to watch the show every Sunday night \u2013 back when SJP was at the height of her popularity (although I will always love her) and every single girl in the city drank Cosmopolitans.&#160;   I mean, we all had our Mr. Big\u2019s, didn\u2019t we?&#160; Our Aidan\u2019s, our Harry\u2019s, our Steve\u2019s?&#160; I know I did.   It never grows old.&#160; Tonight we were watching Season 2 \u2013 when Carrie and Big get back together for the second time and he still can\u2019t commit, yada yada yada.&#160; Oh, the sheer reality of it all!&#160;   What it really made me wistful for was the City itself.&#160; Getting dressed up, nights out on the town, cabs, 2 am, too much wine and a little bit of boozy kissing \u2013 let\u2019s be honest, you know you\u2019ve been THERE \u2013 and all.the.butterflies.  So why does all of that change after you have babies?&#160; I don\u2019t mean it changes forEVER \u2013 like it never happens \u2013 because of course we still have date nights \u2013 but it\u2019s just not the <em>same<\/em>, you know.&#160; Where Vann and I are now, we hope and pray we make it till 6 am before a certain 3 year old is crying by the side of the bed complaining that her \u201ccovers are all twisted up\u201d or the classic \u201cI can\u2019t find Ducky!\u201d.&#160; Bleary-eyed, one of us (usually Vann) leads her back upstairs to her bed.&#160;   It\u2019s easy to romanticize the pre-kiddo days, isn\u2019t it??&#160; Funny how when I was on those dates with Vann all I wanted was for him to utter the words \u201cfuture\u201d or \u201cwe should do that this Thanksgiving\/Christmas\/New Year\u2019s\u201d, you know, any sign of a commitment.&#160; And now?&#160; Commitment is what we got.&#160; Ironic, no??  Ah, the grass is always greener, isn\u2019t it?&#160;   I wonder sometimes if my sweet hubby wishes I put makeup on more than once a week, for church on Sunday.&#160; I wonder if he wishes I kept a cleaner house.&#160; I wonder if he thinks he might like to see me in something other than workout clothes.  Oh, honey.&#160; You really are the best.&#160; The most fantastic partner, friend, father, husband.&#160; I love you and hope you know how much your girls adore you.  Here\u2019s to more fantastic city-like date nights in our future.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So last Christmas Vann and I were at Costco and happened upon the complete series (including both movies \u2013 good and bad) of \u201cSex and the City\u201d.&#160; Of course, we had to pick it up.&#160; Now, Courtney (my dear roomie from my first few years in Chicago) and I didn\u2019t have HBO back in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1229,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}