Dinner and a Movie

A crab spider waits for a tasty treat on a hydrangea plant.

July was full of activity. We had so many things going on with the business, and we spent a couple of weekends getting ready for the upcoming family reunion.
It's so rare that Chuck and I ever get to have a little bit of alone time to just engage in a relaxing conversation.
Some days I handle it OK, and other days I just don't have any patience with interruptions when I'm trying to talk to him. Phone calls, kids, other people; it just gets frustrating when we're in the middle of a conversation.
On Saturday we had an opportunity to spend some time together. Both kids were with their other parents, and Chuck was off. He suggested a community social event and I declined.
We've spent lots of time at social, community functions. I like them, but I need time with him that is focused on us. When we attend events we end up talking to everyone else but each other. So we're together, but not really. We're just at the same event.
When that happens I feel so cheated. Sometimes there are a lot of things we need to talk about, and we end up with no time. Then when we do have a little bit of time after work,  I feel rushed to try to get as much conversation in as possible before we have to do the bedtime routine.
He was so understanding when I explained that I would rather not spend our time with a bunch of other people. We originally intended to attend the event for a short put-in-an-appearance time and he suggested we leave there and go out to dinner and a movie. Time got away from us and we skipped the social event altogether.
I wore a dress, and he work slacks and a nice button down, just like we were on an actual date, and we went for Maxwell's Speakeasy and Lounge dinner-and-a-movie deal in Tacoma.
Maxwell's Speakeasy and Lounge partners with The Grand and has a special dinner menu for two, with two movie ticket vouchers for $60. We had wine and grown up conversation, a really good meal,  and then we went to see "Your Sister's Sister" at The Grand.
It was a good movie about relationships. When I asked Chuck what he thought of it, he said the message he got from it was to enjoy life. He asked me what I thought and I said I agreed with him, and I it also seemed to be about forgiveness. We had a pretty good conversation about it on the way home.
It was a lovely evening.