Girls night out

On Wed night the girls got gussied up for a night in the off-season of Duck, NC. Let me tell you its a happening place! We left the guys and children around 4:15 and did not return until 9:00 p.m. We did a little shopping and had mediocre dinner at Fishbones (not to be mistaken for BoneFish). More importantly we didn't cook, feed children, clean up or put the kids to bed! Here are the ladies from left to right, Stacy (Dan), Ali, Courtney (Pat), Cheri, Peyton (Brian) and Leah (Cary).
Almost all of these ladies are the wives of college housemates of EJs. The men's names mentioned in parenthesis (mostly for my mom's sake:) This is our third year with these families and it was apparent this year how close the ladies are becoming. I know sharing in the role of motherhood (Leah expecting her first in Feb) has made a strong common bond. We were almost always discussing pregnancy, labor, postpartum or caring for our children. Hopefully we didn't scare Leah too much :) With 9 children between the 6 couples we had plenty to discuss.
And don't worry, the guys played 18 holes of golf on Monday so they had time out too!