“We will be. We just need to keep working at it. Come on let’s get this calendar thing set up so we can spend some time with Angie before bedtime.”

***

Bette and Tina both open their shared calendars on their laptops so they can update planned events. In the past all they cared about was who had Angie on which days not so much what activity she was partaking in with each. Now it would be different since they might want to attend activities together. Plus they had to carve out time for themselves for date nights.

”I have season tickets to the Hollywood Bowl and of course they have the summer music and arts programs for kids so I’ll still want to take Angie to those. I have an Arts and Culture Lecture Series at CU which will be over a six week period. I still want to take Angie for the week in the summer to Santa Cruz. I want us to do things together but I still think we should give her some one on one time with each of us where she has our full attention. Are you OK with that?”

“Sure. I think it’s important that she spends time alone with each of us. I’ll plan my week with her as well. The only season tickets I have this year are for the Repertory Theatre. They have some great shows coming up that I think you might enjoy.”

“Sounds like we have enough to fill our date nights for the next several weeks. Do you want to start with maybe planning two per month?”

“Yeah. Every other weekend would be good. We’ll continue our Sunday family day tradition where it’s just the three of us and family night with the gang on Thursdays?”

“Yeah that’ll work. I just switched it to Saturday this week to give us more time to prepare. I think Thursdays are good to just hang out for a few hours. We can start back doing Sunday Brunch at the Planet as well. That was a lot of fun and we’ll still have time to do an activity with Angie so it doesn’t cut into our family day.”

By the time they finished adding all the dates to the calendars they had pretty much filled up the spring and summer months. Bette suggested that all three of them take Riley out for his evening walk. Tina went to get Angie.