Moonlighting

Moonlighting. When I heard that word as a little girl, I thought of Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis solving crimes together. I can almost hear the jazz themed opener to the "crime drama" now and it quickly transcends me to my home as a little girl filled with wicker furniture and all. Now,however, this term has taken on a whole new meaning of "off duty gigs" in the police world. Chris has now signed up for several of these moonlighting shifts patrolling car dealership lots, high school baseball games and extra shifts at the hospital. We are so blessed by the ways that God is providing extra income for us, but really have been missing spending quality time together. We do have a few nights a week where we can rest, catch up on housework and watch our favorite shows, but I have really been wanting to go on just a dinner and movie date...just the two of us. Valentine's Day was our last date and we don't even have kiddos! Anyway, I was thinking these thoughts to myself when Chris said to me last night that we really needed to go on a date. So I'm excited to plan one!
Last weekend, we had friends and family over to celebrate Chris' birthday and it really was special. That was our first time to host a gathering like that since we've moved back to Dallas. When living at West Point and Ft. Hood, we hosted gatherings and I always did something at the house for Chris' birthdays. All of our friends would pitch in on the food and it was always so special to me because we were so far away from family. So it was really strange (in a good way) to have family actually here to help and be "on their way over" with goodies. It was so nice to have  both moms here and excited to help. I don't know why, but even after a year, it still feels as if we just moved back...AH...(sigh) home...how great you are!