we need lunch dates because in the middle of a hard day, it is soooooooo nice to have lunch with your grown-up daughter who is a mother of twins and a soon-to-be mother of twins AND triplets, plus she brings the twins along just to spice it up even more.
you have lunch with your daughter and with charlie and olivia and suddenly, whatever was hard is still hard, but who cares.
you eat hamburgers cut up in little pieces that you dunk in the ketchup just like you dunk the fries in the ketchup and when charlie goes to the potty with his mommy, you play "airplane" with olivia and the hamburger. (and when charlie gets back from the potty, you don't tell him that you and olivia were playing "airplane" with the hamburger cuz if you did, all hell would break loose.)
you have lunch with these 3 wonderful people and when you tell the waitress that it's all on one check and you're the one who'll take the check, you think to yourself.....i sure as shootin' have enough money to do this...... more often.
