cool beans: 3 Women Walked Into a Karaoke Bar....

Every woman needs Girls Night. It doesn't matter what age you are, there is some deep, innate need to spend a complete evening with your girls. Of course the activities that ensue when you are with your girls change throughout your lifetime. Perhaps when you were a little girl, you had all your girls over for a slumber party, complete with junk food, gossip, fights, silent treatments, movies, and giggle fits. Maybe you were really daring and snuck out of the house to play "Nikki Nikki Nine Door". As you grew up, girls night might have changed a little bit, instead of staying at home maybe you went to see a movie, or out for dinner, or to a bush party somewhere. Guaranteed wherever you were, your night was still complete with junk food, gossip, and giggle fits.

If you are a Mom, I'm sure you've come to the realization that Girls Nights are not just for fun anymore, they are essential. We become desperate to leave the house, all dolled-up (or not) and interact with other adult human beings of the female variety. I myself soon learned that Girls Night actually made me a better Mom. The ability to have an evening where I was able to just be me, was crucial to my week (or month). I would wake up the next morning with my sense of self, renewed. As Moms, you would think that Girls Night would have toned down quite a bit since we are adults, responsible and mature (we have children, for goodness sake!). It is fairly unlikely that we would play ridiculous, childish games in the middle of the night, waking our neighbors (hmmm, there was that one time in a hotel at 2am... running in underwear....ahem... nevermind...). But it is likely that we would enjoy some fabulous drinks and dessert, chatting away about all the good ~~and bad~~ in our lives. Of course, because we are responsible, mature, classy women, the next part of Girls Night would be a cute, romantic comedy at the cheap theatre (because we are always budget conscious, right?!).

We would definitely not change our predictable plans last minute, ditch the movie, drive completely out of the way to the best Karaoke bar in the city, just because we're crazy like that. We did not rock the house with our renditions of "Before He Cheats", " Just A Girl", and "With a Little Help From My Friends", while enjoying others make just a big of fools of themselves as we did. The most important part of Girls Night is not what you do, but who you do it with and a very large side of spontaneity.