A pledge to eat out more often

Last night, my husband, daughter and I went out for dinner.  It was glorious.  Someone cooked the food for us, cleaned the dishes up after us, and there was no TV to distract us.  We talked, we laughed, we ate, and I got to look at this face all night:

 
Since we moved back to my hometown last year, we haven't gone out much at all.  When I say not much at all, I mean that my husband and I haven't gone out alone together since his birthday in February.  We will occasionally go out when family or friends are in town, but we don't often go out together, just the three of us.  Part of it is that we get amazing meats from Sam at B & G Italian Deli and Meat Market, so the food usually tastes better at home, part of it is that Sunny is now a full-blown toddler, and it's not as easy to take her places as it was when she was an infant, and part of it is to save money.  I realized last night that we'd been missing out.  Even if the food wasn't healthy and organic and GMO-free and $2.50 per serving and blah, blah, blah...that we just need to get out of the house, see some different faces, and spend some time as a family over a dinner table that we didn't have to clean afterwards.