Movies for Mommies!!

I was lamenting that I had not been to see a movie on the big screen since I had Safiya. That means I had not been to the movies since July of 2006 when she was born. She was born about 10 days earlier than expected and I remember hoping that she would not be born till my due date so I could go see the second Pirates of the Carribean movie. Well that did not happen :(

Anyway, I was on a Cincinnati parenting website and saw that a cinema here was starting a program called "Movies for Mommies"! Boy was I excited to see that. It's okay to bring your children to see the film and they have a changing table and bottle warmer inside the theatre! Pretty exciting huh? The nice thing is that mothers can breastfeed without people giving them strange looks and no one gets angry at you when your baby gets fussy.

The downside is that they show movies once a week at 10am on Wednesday mornings. So only stay at home mothers and fathers can go and you cannot make it a date with your husband or significant other since they are likely to be at work or school at that time. Also, it is not advisable to take children who are old enough to know what is going on in the movie because they show movies geared toward adults and not children's movies. I don't want to go to see a film with my child where she might end up learning how to use cuss words!

Needless to say, I went for the first time yesterday and it was great. My first movie outing since becoming a mother! Yay for me. I saw "Atonement" the one with Kiera Knightley that has been generating a lot of Oscar buzz. Safiya was so well behaved too, but was more interested in playing with the other babies than sitting quietly on my lap and taking a nap like I thought she would. Too bad my dear husband could not come with us. He has not been to the movies since Safiya was born either. Poor guy, he is such a good daddy and he deserves it. We really need to find a babysitter one of these evenings and have a date night (just the two of us). Date night has been soooo long overdue and I know we would both enjoy it. We used to have dinner and a movie night at least twice a month before she was born!
Any volunteers for a babysitter???!!!!