sweet sweet Lord

This past Saturday night Teddy and I went on a dinner & movie date. This isn't a usual date plan for us. Dinner yes...movie no. But we haven't been to a movie in a while & that is what Teddy planned for me. :)

For a couple who is on a small budget for life you might think doing a dinner & movie date is out of the question. Well, it usually is. But, because of the craziness of the holiday, we had not been on an official date for a little while. So our date/entertainment budget had almost enough. Then we still have a little Christmas cash left, so we thought it would be wise to use it on a fun date :)

Date: Olive Garden (our first date place) & True Grit

Here is how this played out...& why the Lord is so SWEET! (now I understand that for some of you the word sweet probably doesn't resonate with you when it comes to describing the Lord. But, it does resonate with me. Hopefully you understand. Fill free to enter your own choice word :) )

We got to Olive Garden by 5:50pm...not really expecting a CRAZY wait because it's 5:50pm...pshh we were wrong. We had a 45 minute wait ahead of us. Something we learned last time we went to Olive Garden (6 month anni) is you can sit in the "cafe" (tables by the bar) and it's first come first serve...and you get waited on there. So we decided to scope out tables and we were sitting down within 25-30 mins. Our food took FOREVER to come out. When it finally did, Teddy's steak was practically RARE. He asked for it to be medium. So after waiting a long time for the food, he was going to have to wait longer. End result: They comped (however you spell that) his $15 plate...SCORE. We didn't even ask. The Lord is sweet!

Then we headed to the movie theater. Growing up we didn't go to the movies often & when we did you just went to the movie..period. No popcorn/cokes/candy. When I started dating my hot husband I quickly realized that his childhood was different. He ALWAYS has popcorn & a drink. We now always get popcorn & drink...even after we just ate dinner. I guess you can say that I compromised :) Tonight was no different. We were full, but wanted popcorn. We were standing back from the counter just looking and a woman approached us & said, "Hey! Do y'all want popcorn?"...we were a little puzzled, but said yes. She said, "I have this large bucket that gets a free refill, do you want it?" UMM YES! We were only going to get a junior size popcorn because its cheaper & SMALLER. But instead we took this lady up on her offer & got us some free popcorn.

I just think it's sweet of the Lord. We don't often get to go on "fancier" dates because of $$. And the night that we had saved up a little to be able to do so, we didn't have to spend extra cash. We kept smiling at each other, knowing that it was only the Lord. Just amazed.

The Lord really does care about little things.
Even dates between husband & wife :)
-Kells