Last year, I thought we would continue but I wouldn't blog about it. Well, that didn't work so well. Apparently I need to blog about it to be consistent. I think I will try to blog once a month about our dates. I'm hoping that will make our date nights more regular.
So for January...
We had a Pinterest date. I'm a bit obsessed with it. Dave wanted to see what it was all about. We looked through my boards. We talked about my dream house's features, places I'd like to visit, and cool science experiments for the kids. It was another fun way to talk about our future and find fun stuff to do with the kids.
We played The New Newlywed game. ( And by new I mean the 1986 version.) To play the game properly, you need at least 2 couples. We just used the cards to play against each other. We had to laugh about how the questions are designed to make you fight. One of my favorites was "What will your partner say was the last thing she did to you that you think, was just inexcusable?" Is there a good answer to this one? Nothing says a fun board game like drenching up painful memories from the past. Another thing that would make the game hard to play with other couples is the fact it often asked questions like "Who will your partner say is the least attractive of your friends?"Despite the game's flaws, we had fun. We were able to guess most of the time how we would answer and we had a good laugh about the absurdity of some of the questions.
We wrangled a babysitter for our last date of the month. We went to the movies to see Contraband. Mark Walberg plays a former smuggler that has gone straight after having a family. His brother in law gets in trouble with a drug dealer. In order to protect his brother in law and the rest of his family, he has to go on one more smuggling trip to raise the cash to save his brother in law. I did not have high expectations. I was pleasantly surprised that it was so good. Mark Walberg is always nice to look at too.We were going to go out to dinner after the movies but I felt nauseous. I hate to waste babysitting but that is just how life goes sometimes. Dave took care of me when we got home. That was pretty sweet too.
6 comments:
Good luck on getting in all of your dates this year. I am not married but I know my friends who take time with each other unplugged are way happier than those who don't :)
You made me want to go see that movie, partly because of Mark. lol He IS easy to look at.
I used to love watching the Newlywed game on tv! I didn't even know it came in board game version!
what a great idea, i might have to try this, we used to have thursday date night but quickly ended.
Hey that's where I 'met' you - I was thinking the same thing, we could really do with reviving date night. We just fell out of the habit.
He's spent most of the last 2 weeks in different parts of the world so will get unplugged when he returns (may even blog it too!) Thanks for the inspiration x
It's really important to touch base with the hubby. If anything, it helps to relive the romance :)
I often think of this project as T and I sit on the couches sucked into our boxes...I also always think of you when I go into the dollar store...my favorite date of yours was when you each had $5 to spend in there or something like that:) Novel...
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