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Our topic this week is “Share All About Your Favorite Date with Your Spouse”
Your Assignment This Week…
Share All About Your Favorite Date with Your Spouse
Do you love it? I am really excited about this topic! Are you minding your marriage? Are you investing in building your home? This is where it all begins. Nothing will build your home so that it can weather the storms of life like dating your mate!
As I prepared for this week’s Mommy Homework, I thought that this would be the perfect topic for three reasons:
1. It will take us back to a special memory with our sweetheart. We need to REMEMBER the sweet moments along the way. When we do, we will be careful to MAKE those sweet moments happen regularly. If we don’t, we destroy our homes without intending to. Yes, dear friend, if you are married, this is an ESSENTIAL! Miss this and you are actually destroying your home…fail to heed this warning, beware!
2. It just might give our other mommy pals some fresh romance ideas. I am ALWAYS open for new ideas for making our time together on our dates very, very special. I assure you, I am going to be taking notes this week! We all need fun ideas to keep our relationship on fire. The neat thing with romance is that it does not HAVE to cost a lot or always be extravagant. The little things make a marriage sizzle. All it takes is being intentional…getting creative… and laying down our lives for the one we love the most.
3. And…best of all, this one just might help our sweet husbands a bit. Poor guys! I get letters every month asking for help. THEY NEED IDEAS! They really do struggle to know what we really like–we need to be VERY clear and help these sweeties. 🙂 We need to give them a toolbox full of ideas that will help them to build a sizzling hot marriage!
So…
How about jumping in to share on this Mommy Homework assignment?
Share all about your favorite date with your spouse? What made it special? What did you enjoy? How did/can you make it happen? Any fresh ideas?
OH! I can’t wait to read these submissions! Jump in! Let’s get real and share how to build a passionate, forever marriage.
So, grab a cup of tea…settle in for a bit. You will want to dig into this one sweet friends!!
Love ya!
Cindy
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The best date I ever had with my husband was the one when he ask me to marry him! We worked on a military base and there was no such thing as a quite lunch.
One day dh ask me to go out for lunch, I thought we were going to the burger place on base for lunch. But when we left our duty stations he took me to a little wooded park that I didn’t even know was on base. He had fixed us sandwiches, fruit, chips, cookies and ice cold tea. We were eating and having a good time chatting when he turned to me and said so don’t you think we should go and pick out an engagement ring & wedding bands if we’re going to get married? I said to him what? His sweet reply, well I think we’ve know each other long enough we should just get married. That was in July of 1986 and we were married in September that same year. Over the years we have had many lunches such as that one where we just went off to eat alone, and he always remembers my ICE COLD tea!
My favorite date in recent memory was our anniversary weekend in September. We went backpacking and camped out in the mountains. We hiked to waterfalls. It was a very romantic time. I feel we became much closer through this weekend together.
Other dates that we like to do:
Send the kids to grandma’s and cuddle on the couch to watch movies or football. We spread snacks all over the coffee table and cuddle up!
Window shopping – We go look at things we both enjoy, my favorite is the bookstore, his is the outdoors store (hunting/fishing). We try to spend an equal amount of time at each place so that we both enjoy it.
Dinner and a movie is great because it is a very rare treat.
Linda Botkin
Our favorite thing to do is very simple….. We love to go camping for our anniversary. It will be 23 years this October 15. We usually head to the Mountains, yes camping in the mountains in October is cold even in NE Texas. This year we may head a little north to Arkansas with our tent and gear, yes I said tent. We do camp near one of those facilities that offer restrooms and showers, but I heat my water this time of year, those showers are solar power and not much solar going on. It is so beautiful up in the mountains this time of year, leaves are just starting to change, smell of coffee and fresh air, with bacon and eggs mixed in, and no kids, sometimes I think that is as close to heaven on earth as a couple can get.
All that camping gear has come in handy when the electricity goes out, we have coffee in our tin percalator (sp) cooked on a campstove. My 12yo son got a kick out of watching the coffee perk. This year when hurricane Ike blew through, pulled out our gear and did just fine, I even had paper plates hid with the gear so no water no problem (we have a well, no electricity, no water).
My favorite date is always our romantic anniversary weekend getaway.
My sweet husband plans this for us EVERY year and he covers all the details and by everything I mean EVERYTHING! He chooses our destination, finds a quaint little hotel or b&b, researches the area and picks out places he thinks I would like to visit and special restaurants (we don’t like going to main stream places during these times), he even takes care of the child care! All he tells me is the date, what time to be ready and all I have to do is pack my bag. He also tells me what types of clothes to bring!
One year he took me to Richmond, VA, the next to Asheville, NC. This past year he took me to Alexandria and DC to the cherry blossom festival. It’s always so special, a weekend I NEVER forget!
Favorite date: Well, just this past April was our 20th Anniversary…so as a surprise, 2 days (uh, yes, not a lot of prep here) my hubby took me out to dinner because he had to be out of town during our day (plus more) for work. So, at dinner he got sort of that goofy “I am up to something look”-so I go, “What?” He pulls out the card and says-don’t get mad, I made all the arrangements and it its all set. Now first off, I am thinking why would I get “mad”? So I open it and see a print out…flight for 2 to Florida (where he had to be) hotel info and note: pack your swimsuit. Hmmm I think, I am not mad-I am shocked! Never in 20 years has he thought of something like this! So, after I got over the shock….I said, “What about the kids?” (that is why he thought I would be mad-or what he meant, concerned. We do not have many we can trust to watch our kids. So, since the 2 are older- 19 and 17 at the time, and very responsible…I am like-lets go! SO I had a day and 1/2 to get myself together, be sure there were meals and misc. food for the kids and legal papers all tidy… and off we went. The whole weekend was a big date! We ate out in nice restaurants (usually we eat in those where we get the most for our money since there are 6 of us and it is not practical to eat at fancy places), we walked and held hands, we were warm!!! (we live in MI) and we strolled many beaches, went shopping, stopped by and visited relatives (we were right back were we were in Feb. by my family who stays down there during the winter) and just relaxed and talked uninterrupted. Shocking but true. It was a whirlwind weekend. My hubby had to see a student (what we call someone who has or will be getting a dog thru his work) and one of the places we went was Busch Gardens. Even tho 3 is a crowd, she wasn’t too bad and it was only for a few hours. I was able to see the critters, have fun and watch my man do what he does best. It was a whirlwind weekend but for the first time in 20 years-we were alone (‘cept for that one day) and were able to just enjoy eachother. Now, just as a little chuckle for you all-don’t cha know, for the first time we were alone in 20 years (not kidding), I not only brought along my swimsuit but Aunt Flo. Yes, she just could not stay away for 2 whole days. Ugh. So even tho Aunt Flo was ever so present-we were able to just enjoy eachother’s company and spend time gazing in eachother’s eyes. This was the best date ever and I look forward to him surprising me more (he usually is very predictable-so this was a huge outta character moment!) Oh, and I never really worried for the children, we called em enough to know they were alive. I put my faith and trust in the Lord and knew He would take care of em for us. We returned to a clean house, healthy children, no police reports, and we were relaxed, tanned a bit and renewed. Ah, so sweet. In fact, on my blog: homeschooling on a wing and a prayer-the shot of our tootsie’s is from our weekend long date…special!Sheri Hagemann
Oh I love this one. I am going to list 2. One that I planned and one that my sweetie planned.
I like to suprise my hubby with having the kids go over to my sister for the day and have in home for a special lunch. Just the two of us. I love the time together and my hubby’s favorite place is to be home! So it is always the perfect suprise date!!!
My hubby is another story. He is not the romantic type (at ALL!!!) It has taken me a lot to understand this. But, he is really romantic in other ways. My favorite thing is when he stops by on Thursdays and picks me up (I have help in the home on that day) and I run around with him for work. He will usually take me for a special lunch or coffee. I love that he just wants to be with me, even when he is working.
Maybe you can give me some ideas for other suprises for my sweetie.
Heidi Jo
Cindy, does eating dinner in the car while pumping gas on the way to the grocery store while the kids are at the neighbors count as a date? Yes, that is usually how our dates are, actually that was how we spent our 10th anniversary.
But one of the few times we had a “real” date it was awesome. At that time my dear hubby traveled M-F, 50 weeks of the year. So of course he was gone on our 9th anniversary. He mailed me a really funny card and it actually arrived on our special day. Inside the card was a note and tickets to a concert. (I mentioned, only once, that it would be fun to attend that concert) On the note he wrote that he had gotten a “real” babysitter – no parents or in-laws, and a hotel room for the evening. We went to dinner at my favorite place, enjoyed a fantastic concert and then went to the after concert where I was right next to the stage! I guess the best part was he did all the planning, every part. I have the best hubby!
Jill Ryder
Wow, good question.
For me, I would have to say my favorite date with my husband is anytime we are together, alone. My husband is a locomotive engineer and he travels with his job. We have two daughters, so when he is home he loves to spend time with all three of us, as he misses lots being gone so much. With this being said, we don’t get a lot of time together, alone.
From the time we started dating, up to the birth of our children, we have both loved midnight trips to walmart. In the small town where we lived, it was such a thrill when the Walmart started to stay open 24 hours. We love the emptiness of the store where we can just slowly wander the aisles, hand in hand, talking, laughing and window shopping.
When are daughters go the the grandparents for a night or two, we also love to curl up on the couch and watch movies together. We have been together for 10 years and have never been to a movie in the theater together. We were never willing to give our time together up to sit in a room full of people where we couldn’t talk to each other. Being together, talking, laughing and just enjoying each others company is the best for me. I don’t need expensive, detailed, nights out on the town. I just need my husband, best friend and love of my life. The when in where, not to important.
Sorry this isn’t listing any specifics, but it is what means the most to me.
Shannon Depew
As much as I enjoy going out to eat, my favorite romantic date is actually a stay-at-home date! This tends to be a necessity when we have a nursing baby at home; we can send the older siblings to Grandma and Grandpa’s (or they could go to bed early or have the oldest entertain the younger ones) and have some quiet time in our home, together. I personally don’t enjoy going to a hotel or spending the money on it 😉
I usually have something special but simple for dinner like shrimp cocktail, some fruit and maybe sparkling grape juice. Maybe a splurge like cheesecake for dessert or just hubby’s favorite candy.
Sometimes when we go out for a date night, we end up running errands or doing some shopping; that ends up not being a date – it ends up that we’re being parents or homeowners! We don’t have this problem when we stay home!
We usually try to do something special for breakfast the next morning, too! I’ve made hubby breakfast in bed, we’ve gone out to eat or, since we live in town, he’s run out and gotten something to bring back home while I sleep in.
I can’t wait to get some new ideas!
Blessings, Danielle Hull
My favorite “date” was really a whole day — hope that counts! This past May, dh & I were blessed to have a night away at a Bed & Breakfast about an hour and a half from home. It was like going back to the days when we were dating, and/or the early years of marriage before the kids :)! After enjoying breakfast at the inn, we headed out to explore several waterfalls/hiking trails in the area. We stopped at a cute little restaurant in the middle of nowhere for lunch, and again at another inn — with piano accompaniement — for dinner. Then we headed back, soaked together in the hot tub under the stars, and cuddled up in bed togehter! I think the part I enjoyed the most was the chance to talk uninterrupted, to wander with no set agenda, no schedule of having to be somewhere at a certain time (no kid’s soccer game to make) — it was just about us.
We certainly can’t do THAT very often — especially not with the direction the economy seems to be taking — but I think the most important aspect, time alone and without an agenda or schedule driving us — is something that we can duplicate. Hiking (okay, most of it was really just walking) is easy in our area, there are so many places we can go to enjoy God’s creation alone together, right here in our own back yard. I was also reminded of the importance of enjoying the blessings God has provided us, among other things, we even HAVE a hot tub that we got for free last summer, but so often I’ll say I’m too tired or have things to do rather than just go out and enjoy those moments together.
Speaking of which, it’s a clear, starry night… maybe I should go get dh off the computer and head outside :)!
Cari
For a long time there was a Men’s & Women’s Bible study on different nights at our church. DH got to go to his, but mine was on a night I had to run kids to sports. Then they changed it so that both were on the same night. Now we get to do date night every Tues. It’s been really nice. We’d never taken the time to do dates… for 15 yrs! Now the kids are old enough to be left @ home alone, so it’s easy on us. He stops working by 5:30pm (he can work till 9,10, midnight easy most nights). We drive into town & pick a different place to eat each week. We sit & talk & it has really been a reconnect for us. We don’t always eat spendy, sometimes it’s just Chick-fil-A. It’s just the action of taking time out of each of our lives to spend with one another. It’s also nice that we get to end the night going in depth in the Word at each of our Bible studies.
Sometimes we can’t afford a big dinner date: But we can afford a little dessert. We’ll sneak away to his favorite restaurant for a quick sweet treat.
Another little thing we do: DH works from home, but when the day is getting stressful, he’ll take a break & the 2 of us will go for a walk down our mile long dirt road. Might not sound like a “date” but every minute I can steal away with him I’m happy for. We went years & years where I didn’t see him for months at a time, so now time together is a true blessing.
OK, one more: I thought this was a little over the top, but I guess I’ll share. Last summer I took the kids on a month long road trip to see family. DH stayed at home to work (not to mention most of his family is local). While I was gone he decided to make a big deal reunion. He bought me a new outfit (right down to everything). He scheduled with his parents to keep the kids for the night. Then he took me out to a really nice dinner at the Melting Pot (we went there for dinner for our Senior Prom together). I could tell he’d spent a LOT of time working on this date, & he wanted it to be just dripping with romance. I thought he did a pretty good job.
I love going on dates. But with 3 kids it isn’t always easy to get away. I am very blessed to have a best friend that is willing to watch them for free and that helps a lot!
One thing that I myself like to do for my husband is send him on a little scavenger hunt in the house. I’ve done this 3 times now and it’s always fun. I start out by downloading all our favorite “romantic” songs onto one cd. Then I start making out my clues. It starts with the moment he walks in the front door. There will be a clue and it will lead him to another clue and so on. I love to write poems so my clues always rhyme, but it’s not always easy, especially when you’re trying to rhyme with something like “closet” lol. Ultimately he will find his way to ME! I usually have “your beverage of choice” waiting for him and chocolate covered strawberries and other little delicacies. I can’t tell you much more than that but you get the idea I hope.
Now I love it when my husband takes the initiative to execute a date. That means lining up the sitter and everything. I don’t think that men are instinctively romantic so when this happens I’m excited. Now I’m a pretty easy person to please and he knows that. I just enjoy being alone with him. I can be “alone” with him in a busy restaurant because my focus is on him and his on me. One of my favorite dates was when we went out to a nice restaurant and then took sunset pictures on the river. Sometimes we simply load up the fishing gear and go fishing. It really doesn’t matter to me. If he initiated it then I’m all for it. We’ve threatened to drop the kids off and just come home and watch a whole movie at once lol. I’d be all for that too ha ha!
If most women are like me, they won’t care to much about what the husband wants to do as long as they have initiated doing it. That shows that they were thinking about us and wanted to do something special for us.
I said before that men aren’t “naturally” romantic but I have to say that one thing my husband has done since we have been married (12 years) is he has brought me home a bouquet of flowers EVERY month. He buys them off a guy on the side of the road and gets a pretty good deal because he’s been such a regular customer lol. I love flowers and he knows that. That’s his “thing” and I love him for it!
I hope this helps someone out there. Just have fun with it. Most importantly RELAX! I know you love your kids but talk about something else when you are alone. Talk about your first date or better yet your wedding night lol. Remember funny stories and times together. Make it fun!
Blessings to you all.
Kim Wilson
My husband and I try to date at least several times a month. We usually only have family members keep our children, so if we don’t have a babysitter, sometimes we date at home by feeding the kids and then getting them a movie while we have dinner from out somewhere.
One of my favorite dates was planned by dh for my birthday several years ago. Instead of coming home from work, he had my mom come to our house with a present for me. The present was a box with a noter with a clue of where to meet him. so he surprised me with a night out and it was a game to find he. When he I found him, we spent the evening hanging out, going out to supper and then dessert. the best part of course was the surprise!
I think it is so important to make that time to date each other even if it is just dinner while the kids watch a movie. It shows that we make each other a priority.
Leah Courtney
Hmm…. This is a hard one! I guess it was when we went to the mall and just walked around. It was our first date and he got so frustrated because I wouldn’t let him buy me anything. We went to the mall because he needed a suit for an interview and he didn’t want his mom to pick one out! (She loves BRIGHT and WILD clothes). After picking out a suit, he wanted to buy me something and Mama had always told me not to let a guy start buying me things. The next day he had some flowers delivered to me with a note saying that he had to get me something. I still have that note.
My favorite date with my husband is any time we are actually alone and at a nice restaurant. This has been the main thing we have done on our dates over the past seven years. We also enjoy movie nights at home curled up on the couch, but one of us usally falls asleep at some point.
This year we have made a huge effort to go out on a date every month, while the grandparents baby-sit. Money is tight, so we try to use a restaurant gift card from Christmas when we can. It is so fantastic to go out alone, no chasing anyone, and veg-out while we reconnect.
One of the best date times we had was before we were married and went to Disneyland. We just laughed, chatted, held hands and gazed dreamily into each other’s eyes while we wondered around the Happiest Place on Earth. The lines were also pretty short, which was great.
I look forward to hearing what everyone has to say about this! Our date nights are pretty boring… probably because we go out a LOT! We now have a young teenager to babysit, so we go out frequently but in very short spurts. usually we just to to starbucks and soak in the ambiance, and on wednesdays my older 4 have Logos, so dh and I and the 2yo go out to dinner and usually to barnes and noble to walk around 🙂
Rebecca
First off, there’s no way I can pick just one favorite date! So here are several…
Our first date is definitely at the top of the list. It started with an afternoon walk. He showed me his office and we got cocoa and cookies. We talked about all sorts of things. Then we went to a movie. Then we went out to dinner. Then he gave me a night time tour of the city. He dropped me off at home around 2 am, 12 hours after he picked me up!
Before we had kids we went on all sorts of wonderful dates. We went camping a lot – one night the full moon was so bright we went for a walk around 3 am and it was as bright as day. Sometimes we would meet up with other friends for dinner parties, other times we would cook a nice dinner of steaks and seafood and sit on the balcony to eat.
Now our dates usually involve a grocery store or a meeting we are going to together. My mother lives with us so we often ask her to watch the kids while we run errands. We will go get a coffee and sit for twenty minutes or so, and then we’ll go to the grocery store or the gas station, etc. When we have meetings we’ll meet for dinner somewhere before hand – sometimes at a restaurant, sometimes at a picnic spot.
We are both very involved in Scouting and recently attended Wood Badge leadership training together. On the last night there was a campfire and we had a chance to just sit together, holding hands, watching the fire and listening to the different conversations around us. A lot of the other leaders commented on how nice it was that we could do the training together. My husband walked me back to my tent and we kissed goodnight, just like before we were married. It was really sweet.
Another date we really enjoyed was to a recent homeschool conference. Our kids aren’t old enough to attend the teen conferences yet, so my mother watched them at home and we got a hotel room for the night. We didn’t have the budget for a really nice dinner but we enjoyed being really alone together overnight for the first time in I don’t know how long.
I also enjoy staying home. We don’t have anywhere we can send the kids but sometimes we feed them and put on a movie downstairs for them. Then we take our dinner upstairs and watch a romantic comedy or a good drama on the other tv.
It would be nice if my husband would plan a date more often. Before we were married he used to cook me dinner or plan a fun night out. It’s so nice when he gets the sitter and makes the plans.
Terri Griffin
Hmmm… a date. A date… I think I remember what those are… 😛
No, really, we have come to the point where going out on a ‘date’ is fine, but spending time together and remembering special things or doing special things throughout the week is what we can do now to bring us closer together.
We have eight children, and I am a homebody. I think we are both pretty simple in what we like to do anymore, so spending time together at home has become the norm. My husband works two jobs and is gone 5 days a week from 7am to 8pm, and 1 day a week from 7 to 5pm. He does have Sunday off though! 😛
If we can go out for an hour in town and grab some fries and a drink and chat about Matt’s day, that is alone time. I really don’t feel the need to go somewhere, and I try to listen to what he needs as far as my time together with him. We do rent movies or borrow them from the library and spend time watching them together. One of our children makes us some popcorn, and we retreat upstairs to the “Attic Room” which is our large family room.
Since we do not have much time alone, occasionally we do have alone time early in the morning before he heads out to work. When we haven’t been able to set time aside for a ‘date’, I try to make the effort to go out and spend time with him while he works outside or even after work when he is in the shower to ask him about his day.
The last date we had was last month when we had just a few hours to run to the “Big City” to see my new favorite movie, FIREPROOF. We left most of the Littles home with the older girls and took the 3yo and the nursing 1yo with us to the matinee. We sat a seat apart, with no one in between us (people must have thought we REALLY needed to see the movie!), and there were hardly any other people there.
We were late getting in, so we skipped the popcorn, to my dismay – I love popcorn! Needless to say, dh decided to stop afterward and get us some popcorn to pop at home and some ice cream and cones to share with everyone who didn’t get to go. I think the sweetest thing I remember about that date was watching my dh walking into the store holding our 3yo Little Man’s hand so he could help him go in and pick out the ice cream. It is heartwarming to me to see my dh be a loving daddy. It melts my heart. We brought home the goodies and both enjoyed sharing them with our children.
The last date before then wasn’t really a date; Matt had to get me out of the house for a surprise party the girls were having for me. We went to the store with the Littles and spent time looking around and grabbing some snacks.
Going to the store together used to be our dates. Shopping or just driving around talking was something we did together with sleeping children in the back seat. Can’t do that anymore with the gas prices!
He liked it when I would take time to meet up with him wherever he was working. Now he wants me to go and walk his mail route with him once a week for together time. I haven’t quite been able to work that in, but I am hoping to.
My dh knew I was like this when we met. I think the first time we met, he wanted to go to the theater with a group of friends, and I didn’t understand why we would go spend all that money when we could rent a movie! And here we are 20 years later!
Blessings from IN ~ J
Well, I like this topic. But first, a little background on us. We live in the Philippines and my husband left to work in the USA last November 2006. I was three months pregnant then. He came back in May 2007 for the birth of our baby, and after six precious weeks with us, he left again for the US.
Last June, he moved to New Zealand for another job. So far, we haven’t been with him since our baby was six weeks old and now, our baby is already 17 months old. Long time, huh. It truly is. It’s been a very challenging time for our family and for both of us as well.
Since we are not together, we have to really work on our relationship, to sustain us and preserve our love relationship. Thank the Lord for the power of the internet. Because of it, we are able to talk to each other almost everyday. We are able to sustain our relationships, even with the kids, by communicating with each other often.
But the one thing that really binds our hearts, is the regular time we take to study the Bible and pray. We find that just be studying the Bible together, using Bible Studies in http://www.intouch.org, we are able to work through our issues in a peaceful manner. Not only that, the Lord just brings to us visions and dreams during those times. Our prayer time has also been dynamic and the love and commitment that we have with each other just flows through us.
I’ve been asked some time ago how we are able to do it, how we can sustain our marriage despite the distance. All I can say is this, we are not able to do it, it is the Lord’s grace that sees us through.
I’d certainly just love to be able to walk and hold hands with my husband, but for now, this is what we have and we treasure each time.
Michelle Padrelanan
My husband and I have been married for 15 years. Over the years, there have been many wonderful date nights. Thankfully, our parents are gracious to watch our 4 children to allow us a night to ourselves.
We got married on January 2 and now wished we had picked a different time of the year because celebrating our anniversary can often be delayed because we have very little money left after Christmas and the many birthdays that are in our family that time of year. So this year, for our anniversary, we decided to wait until the summer months and have a night out.
We live near a very neat town called Cartersville, GA. It’s surrounded by the N. Ga mountains. Very nice. There are many neat shops at their square and the trains go through. Most of the shops were already closed the evening we headed out, but we did manage an to go through one antique store before dinner. We had been told about a wonderful restaurant called the “Appalachian Grill.” The atmosphere is very neat and cozy. Friends had told us that it was a bit pricey and a great place for celebrating your anniversary. We were offered a cozy booth in the back and for that we were thankful.
I enjoyed my Chicken Carbonera accompanied by a wonderful salad with toasted pecans and cranberries. It was so delicious. It’s making my mouth water just to think about it. 🙂 I loved that Chicken Pasta dish so much, I came home and got on http://www.recipezaar.com to search for a similiar recipe and I found a close one but had to change a few things to make it closer to what I had in the restaurant that day.
After spending the night at a local B&B, we headed to Marietta, GA for a day of antique shopping. This is something we love to do together and don’t get much time to do that. Oh, I got so many good little deals at one place that was more like a “flea market.” But the best thing was the beautiful picture of the woods and a creek that we bought to go above our bed. That was a wonderful 15th anniversary present to each other and it reminds me each day of our special time together.
Nancy Mosley
Wow, what a question, especially right now! Life isn’t what I had dreamed of being when I was a teenager but God has certainly blessed our home.
One of my favorite dates was the first one we ever took. We went to the churches valentine banquet together. We were both helpers with the organization of the banquet but weren’t on the same group to work. I won a FREE dinner for two at one of the nice places in town to eat out and we started making plans for our second date! My dh was doing the bulletins for the church and they needed to be run that night, after the dinner was over and we had cleaned everything up we ran over to the church and did the bulletins.
I have special memories of the dates we took before we were married because most of our dating was done by going to the area churches for revivals, special meetings etc.
After we were married my dh started giving me a rose for every month that we were married on our month anniversary. I was working to help put him through school for a double major. We lived in what we call the “world’s smallest home”. Only one of us could fit in the kitchen, bathroom or hallway at a time. The livingroom was just big enough for a couch and our table to eat, our bedroom could only hold our bed. But looking back on those days, they meant a lot to us because we depended on each other and not on things.
After the children came, the roses stopped and we weren’t able to get away. Our oldest was a very abused boy that we adopted at 8 yrs old and no one wanted to help out with him. Then came our two blessings and our youngest has life/death seizures and NO ONE is willing to watch him at all. So for 12 yrs we never had a time that we were really alone.
This past Friday, one of our friends called us up and told us she wanted the two kids so we could go spend an hour alone. Oh, it was wonderful beyond words. I thought I was a kid again! After being married 14 1/2 yrs it felt good to get to go out with just my husband and eat with him!! We even went to Wal-Mart afterwards and didn’t have to worry about the kids.
I know that doesn’t sound much for most of you but when you have a special needs child, it seems like people run the other way to help, even the grandparents. We don’t get much alone time for each other and this weekend means a lot. No we didn’t spend a lot of money but we aren’t used to spending money now that we have kids.
Cindy, thanks so much for the advice and help that you gave to us over the weekend! God certainly knows what we need and when we need it.
Blessings,
Orilla Crider
One of my favorite dates was going to a nearby town and having dinner at Red Lobster. Then we went to the Christian bookstore and on to have a coffee at the Java Loft. It was so peaceful and relaxing. I came home so refreshed. We live in a small town and there is not much but a few little restaurants and a Tea Room.
My husband and I do try to go out once a week by ourselves even if it just to sonic for coke. The weeks we do this, it makes the biggest difference in our marriage. I just love having that time all to ourselves with no interruptions.
One special thing that keeps us connected in the midst of having a 5,3 and 1 year old is once a month we have committed to having a special meal alone together. I feed the kids early and when DH comes home from work the kids go in the other room and watch a movie together while we eat more “adult” food and have “adult” conversation. The kids help me decorate the table with a tablecloth, candles and special dishes and they love to be able to have their time alone and enjoy a movie together. My husband and I take our time eating and reconnecting. It’s an easy and inexpensive way to have a date once a month (or more if we really seem to need it!)!
My husband and I don’t have much time for “dates” unfortunately, as he is working 3 jobs. But anytime he has to go run an errand he asks if I would like to go along. It is so thoughtful of him to consider that I need some adult conversation.
My favorite date with him was several years ago. I was always the one arranging the child care and when because he was so busy he didn’t realize I needed some “away time.” This one week I was extremely stressed (at the time I had 4 children under 6), so he arranged everything and even brought me flowers. I can’t remember what we did, but I so remember his thoughtfulness at the time I needed it.
Because my memory is so bad *smile* I will share a recent fab date with my Beloved.
And you know, it’s just typical….we prepared the poppets (age 14 & 11) that they would be by themselves all day (phone numbers, movies & snacks nearby!! and LOADS of rules!!) and we ran away to a near by town about an hour away (so we really FEEL like we are away!)
During this time the radio was OFF. I had a few open ended questions that I wanted to ask him:
*What would you like to do when we get the vehicles paid off? (cause we will have “excess” money to dump onto some thing else.)
*What is your favorite part of work?
*Do you like the restaurants that you go to during lunch (he works an hour away from home)?
Just items like that….it got the chatting open and it was just so nice to talk to him on our drive and not worry about the poppets! We went to a huge garden/green house and picked out trees that we would like to have on our property, went to Don Pablos to eat & Barnes & Nobles for coffee & books!! Had a wonderful, wonderful time!!
When we were having difficultly in our marriage about 3 years ago we made a date every Saturday morning for coffee. No matter what we went. NOTHING got in front of that date. Family was canceled. Sporting for the kids was canceled. Again: nothing got in the way. nothing. All that mattered was our Saturday morning coffee……because it helped HEAL our marriage. And we needed that dedication…..
Recently, my Beloved said that he really missed our Saturday morning coffee. Well that is communication that we need to have it start up again!! I am more than willing to have coffee and secure my marriage with my best friend at the same time!!
*LOVE all your stories!! We are blessed!!
Kelly Martin
Our favorite dates actually happen every night. When little ones go to bed, we have the evenings all to ourselves. Each night, my hubby pours two glasses of cold milk and we enjoy our favorite snacks together. We have time to talk, read, watch what we want on TV, and sometimes fall asleep on the sofa together.
It really is nice that every day, we have this time together. We don’t have to wait for a weekly or monthly night together. A lot goes on that we need to talk about and some things can’t wait that long for us to have quiet time together. We both really enjoy this time that we aren’t interrupted in our conversations and having to tend to little ones. It really “rejuvenates” us and then we are ready for the next day to tackle raising energetic children. I really feel like we build on our marriage every day and my husband is very involved in what is going on with me and the children. I also get a chance to ask him about work and any thoughts that he might have on our family.
Katrina Boatwright
When we were newly married, dh and I used to love going for walks on the beach. Now, we love it when we can walk together to take the trash out.
It is nice when Grandma comes to visit and we can run a quick errand together. Though last time she was here my sweet hubby got to take me out to lunch.
We do plan a weekly date night. That usually consists of curling up and watching a movie.
I look forward to gleaning ideas from everyone else’s posts.
Annie
My husband and I don’t often have out of the house dates. We don’t have family around and with working to get out of debt we don’t often want to pay a sitter. So, we date at home. About once a week, my husband will get all of three girls into bed on the early side. Then, he’ll put his work aside and we have a date.
Some of my favorite such dates:
*watching a movie together while he rubs my feet or neck then snuggling
*having a special desert while we just visit and catch up on each other’s thoughts
and plans
* in the summer, sitting outside on our bench and watching the sun set while surrounded by flowers (sets too early in the summer :o) )
Bobbi Beeson
Wow, this is going to be a fun topic.
Mike and I have such a history that dates or date nights have been around a while. In college because we were on different schedules we would meet at Burger King for a lunch date weekly, then when we started working together at an auto dealership we would schedule Thursday nights for pizza and E.R. on NBC (we watched it together from the first episode). Now, we try for Thursday nights (usually the boys are with my Mom for Amma Gamma time on Thursday evenings), we usually meet up at a local place and enjoy talking about whatever and dinner then home in time to watch E.R. I know it sounds silly and isn’t the best quality television, but it is something we do together. We have also returned to reading together after E.R. while we are winding down… usually an article or bible passage I have been studying, but sometimes just something one of us has come across during the week.
Even after 15 years together (our first date was Oct 20, 1993 and our wedding anniversary is Oct 20, 2002) we still find 1 night a week for just us. I hope we will continue this even as the boys get older and activities start to fill the weekly calendar. I feel date night is critical for our marriage, even in the rough times we need that time together to focus on us just for a moment.
Having been single for over 8 years now, I recently had the opportunity to get reacquainted with a friend that I had a secret crush on over 20 years ago, long before my marriage.
Let me back up and say this has been a year of change for me. I turned 50, and I was not happy that I had not taken better care of myself and resolved that this year was going to be different. I was going to take some time and work on me, getting in better physical shape instead of feeling like such a blob and unattractive. I used to be able to walk 6 miles several times a week and I could barely walk up a set of stairs before becoming winded. I was a good 80 pounds over my high school weight. I resolved to loose 50 pounds this year for myself and get fit once again.
I just got on the scale this evening, and I’m 45 pounds lighter, so I’m almost to my goal – for this year, and it’s not over yet! Best thing is I can move, I can bend over, I can do so much that I wasn’t doing because I felt sick and tired all the time.
Back to the crush….
He came into my work one day and we reconnected and exchanged phone numbers and e-mail addresses, but never did anything except briefly chit-chat when he would come into my work every so often.
That is, until I got a different job and had no reason to be in that area of the city any longer.
A couple of months later, I was feeling better about myself and what I was doing to improve my physical appearance and outlook on life, so I gave the thought to contacting him, since he had given me his business card. He gave it to me for a reason, and I figured this was it. I sent him a brief e-mail and bright and early the next morning I got one in return from him. He was glad I had contacted him for he had lost my contact information and he’d been in my former place of employment several times looking for me.
After a month of e-mailing back and forth, we had our first date last night. It was a simple walk thru the woods, talking and hand holding, and only lasted 45 minutes and after leaving each other, we talked for another 45 minutes on the phone.
I can say that I couldn’t have dreamed of having a better time with him. It was worth the 20 year wait. I think we both are interested in seeing where the possibilities lead. We shall see.
My husband and I love to put the kids to bed and just snuggle up to a good movie! With kids it is hard to do more than this anyhow! LOL We really havn’t WENT anywhere in years. It is hard to get away without the kids but really, there is nothing better than snuggling in bed and watching a movie and reconnecting as husband and wife!!!!
Rodna James
This was a truly hard question for me. Our dates are usually a movie and they only happen every few years.
So my favorite date wasn’t really a date. One day we woke up early, just by chance. We started talking, and we talked as we lay there in bed for 2 1/2 hours before the kids got up. It wasn’t planned, it wasn’t a “date” but it was one of the best dates we’ve ever had!!
As for formal dates, just a few weekends ago, we went to see Fireproof. I had actually no idea that it was a movie about a conversion experience. My husband is not a Christian. After the movie ended, I looked at him and there were tears in his eyes and he later asked me some questions about Christianity and my beliefs. Although he hasn’t come to Jesus yet, I see that he is truly seeking and starting to find some answers, and in time (everybody please pray with me for it to be sooner rather than later) he may make the decision to follow Christ.
Elizabeth Bowen
A favorite date with my husband is probably just going out to have a quiet dinner alone. When we get to do this, it is nice to just sit with one another, talk about the days events or other things that are going on, and enjoy the UNINTERRUPTED conversation! 🙂 With 3 kids it’s hard to find that time until the kids are in bed…as I’m sure many of you experienced! We also enjoy getting dessert (New York Cheesecake Factory!) to bring home and enjoy while watching a movie.
My most recent favorite date was a weekend getaway over the summer to New York City…a 6 hour drive from where we live. I had never been, and my husband took the opportunity to take me while my parents were here and could watch the kids. It was so wonderful to take in the sights with my huband for the first time. We went to a Broadway show, did some shopping, ate in ‘Little Italy’, rode the subway all over the city, and walked over the Brooklyn Bridge….so much fun! It was a rare treat and we enjoyed every minute of it, but of course this is not our typical outing. Usually it’s diner, a movie, then home….but we enjoy doing those things together.
I’m looking forward to reading about what everyone else does…maybe I’ll get some new ideas!
Wendy Woerner
Oh! I have to add one date that I planned that was a HUGE hit! When my husband was working and living in Maryland for 6 months, he came home every 2 -3 weeks for a weekend visit. One weekend I had asked our babysitter to comeover EARLy in the morning…like at 5 a.m. We had a breakfast packed and headed to the beach with our breakfast and a blanket to watch the sun rise. That was probably the best date we’ve had; and the cheapest! We only lived 6 miles from the Atlantic Ocean at the time. We watched the sun rise and took a walk…taking pictures of all the beautiful sites. We even saw some sea turtle eggs…don’t worry we didn’t touch them! We have a picture we took of our feet, covered in sand (as we sat) with the ocean and rising sun in the background. It brings back such fun memories…and makes me miss the beach! 🙁 I just had to come back and share that one.
Wendy Woerner
Well my favorite was when I surprised him for our First anniversary. I made arrangements with my hubby’s boss for him to be off work on Saturday and I also had arrangements at a bed and breakfast about 30 minutes away. I tried hard to keep him up late playing Monopoly so he would “over sleep” for work. That worked and when he woke up Saturday morning he was in a panic thinking he was late for work. So it took a while for me to convice him that I had arranged for him to be off work and then we went on our way. Our bags were allready packed and in the car and before we went to the bed and breakfast I blindfolded him and he thought he knew which direction we were going and thought he knew where we were. Until we went over some cattle guards and that threw him for a loop. It was too funny. So we stayed at this wonderful place ate dinner and used the roof top hot tub (in January- mind you, it was freezing!!!). It was nice to be able to pull that surprise off for my hubby!
Lori Duncan
My favorite date with my husband is anything, anywhere we can be together. We have six children ranging in age from 8-18 so alone time is critical. Sometimes it is us going somewhere, other times it is just time together when everyone is asleep. We have been married almost 23 years and we still act like kids together! One of the keys to our marriage is that we still think of each other as “boyfriend” and “girlfriend” as well as spouses. We are truly best friends.
First I must say I have the most awesome mother-in-law. Whenever DH & I have gone out for dates, she always babysits. We have 5 children 7 1/2 & younger, no easy task! She is the best & a lifesaver! Our last date was very spontaneous & cheap. We went to a movie right after DH got off work–it was the day for $1 before 6–woohoo! We met @ the theater, I brought our own candy bars & water bottle from home 🙂 We stopped to pickup pizza to take to our children & his mother. DH is not usually one for spontaneity so this was so fun. He receives gift cards to various restaurants as safety awards from work, we use those every 3-4 months and then walk around Barnes & Noble or Gander Mountain or Lowe’s. I truly am a cheap date 🙂
Blessings!
Hillary in Indiana
Ahh…dates with my Honey…LOVE those!!
My favorite? Hmmm…I don’t have a favorite. Sure the day he proposed was a huge one. But, my most favorite dates are the simple ones. The ones where all four of our children are away and it’s just the two of us alone in our home.
We normally have something special for supper and a tasty dessert. And lots of time to talk and cuddle. The talking is my most favorite. We’ve always talked…ALOT. With Honey being gone at his job during the week, and early bedtime hours since he and I rise at 3:30 am, along with a farm and all that it entails…we don’t have the time we like to just talk.
It doesn’t happen often..and when it does, we wish it could happen weekly..or bi-weekly. It’s more like semi-annually…but we so look forward to the next one when the time is winding down.
My Honey is my very best friend in all the world…and he tells me I am his. We treasure time together alone. We dearly love our babes, but do enjoy the time when it’s just the two of us. Thanks for this week’s question…makes me think it’s time for another date!!! 🙂
I Love sharing those tender moments with my hubby.
DH was to have gone to FL for an interview during our 20th Anniv. The interview was canceled, he already had the long weekend off, so he kept the days off. 5 wonderful days we celebrated!! We ate out, just us 2, talking and reminiscing over the past 20yrs. We watched a chick-flick together, Momma Mia, not DH usual. We laughed, I cried. We reserved our bedroom just for us, no family night.
Michelle Fitzgerald
We’ve had so many good times together. Sometimes we’re not together on special days. The year he was in Uzbekistan on my birthday he emailed me pics of him holding different signs he had made. One said “Happy Birthday” and the other said “I love you and miss you”. He ordered flowers and had them delivered to me where I was staying at which was amazing to me cause I was 20 minutes away from town out on my parents farm. It made the day so special for me even though we couldn’t be together. Another year when he was gone for my birthday he left me a scavenger hunt and at the end there were coupons he made for me in an envelope. One was for a dinner and movie when he got back home.
For our 19th anniversary this June the girls were gone to church camp and our son was working so we spent the day all alone. We went to the beach at the state park on the Gulf of Mexico. We got in free because it was a homeschool day for our support group. After we laid on the beach and played in the water
all afternoon we went out for a really nice dinner that was free (Don had gotten
a $50 gift card for helping with the deep sea fishing trip at work and we used that). Then we went to the movies for free by using another gift card we had gotten from his work Christmas party. We had a such a good day together and didn’t even spend a penny!
We try to have a date night each Friday. It’s something I really look forward to. We can sit and talk (uninterrupted!) for as long as we want. Sometimes we go cheap and other times we spend a little more. We have a dollar theater at the mall and we go there alot too. We don’t normally go to the more expensive theaters here but I set some $ aside to go see Fireproof a couple weeks ago. We both really enjoyed that movie and had a great dinner afterwards where we talked for hours.
Our 20th anniversary will be next June and we’re already saving up for our trip. I’ve wanted to go to Savannah, GA for a long time now so that’s where we’re going! It’s fun to plan this far in advance. I planned for a long time before we took the kids to St. Augustine too and that was fun. I’d like for us to go back there alone sometime. There are lots of places I’d love to visit. Don (being in the AF) has seen so much more of the world than I have. He comes home and tells
me all about the places he wants to take me. Someday when the kids are all grown up, we’ll have lots of places to visit!
Katie Anderson
I wasn’t going to answer this one, because we are not real creative with our dates, but as I read everyone’s response, I guess mine isn’t TOO bad. LOL
Our anniversary is tomorrow, and this is also my favorite date of the year. Tomorrow the boys are going to a football game with close family friends and I’m meeting Daddy in the city where he works. We’re going out to dinner and then to do some shopping. We are going to Christmas shop together. We’ll put some things on layaway for the boys and just walk around telling each other what we like to give each other ideas. THEN we end up at the book store for a decadent flavored coffee for me and a tall black coffee for him. We read and talk and sip coffee.
We were married 5 years before the boys came and had lots of alone time. Our lives were one giant date. I appreicate just a simple evening with my soul mate now. We still send the boys up to bed at an early hour so we have at least an hour every night together just the two of us. I love that.
Well, before we had our children, we had a weekly date night. The youth at our church (my husband was youth pastor at the time) knew not to call on our date night ‘cuz we wouldn’t answer the phone. Sometimes we’d go out to eat, other times for a long walk — but we set the evening aside for each other.
Since we had our kids, it’s been more of a challenge to find those times for just us, especially since we moved to a new city away from both of our families and friends (and babysitters). One thing we’ve done to be creative is this: our local grocery store has free child care (up to 1 1/2 hours) while you are in their store. AND they have a cafe area where you can buy meals. So my husband has taken me out for lunch at the grocery store while the kids play in the play area. They love it, and I get 1 1/2 hours of uninterrupted talk-time with my honey! It’s a win-win situation! 😉
My favorite date was our very first date. Well… it really wasn’t a date because we weren’t even “dating” yet. We just went to lunch together after church.
It was a really cold day. I almost didn’t go to church. But earlier in the week we were out with friends and he said he hoped he would see me in church on Sunday so I felt I had to go. Pastor was doing a series on the roles in the family, and he was speaking on the roll of a wife in marriage that day…. um…. I didn’t make the connection when Jeirmiah said he hoped I would be there that morning..
Anyway…. it was a very cold morning. After church, we rode in his truck, and I remember it was so warm, I didn’t want to get out. He took me to Mazzio’s for pizza. We ate two whole large pizzas together, and talked (I did most of the talking). I don’t even remember what I said… I just rambled on and on and on…. blah blah blah…. on and on. And he just sat there listening as I rambled. And some how he still wanted to marry me 🙂
We sat there for so long, when we left it was time to go back to church for evening service.
He left for Christmas to go home to Colorado a month later, and when he came back he asked me for my hand in courtship. We were married 8 months later. 🙂
That was my favorite date, because I fell in love with him then. We’ve been married 10 years and I sitll want to tear up when I think about it. I still love my hubby.
One of our most memorable dates was our first date. It was a blind date…set up by his sister. I was working at the local hospital with his sister and she said, “I have two brothers, which one would you like me to set you up with?” We decided on the youngest of her brothers, Steve.
We arranged to go to dinner at a local Mexican restaurant and then followed that up with a movie.
We had a nice dinner and watched a movie afterward…although I can’t remember which movie it was.
When the evening was drawing to a close, we went back to my place. We talked for awhile and decided that we would be “friends”.
Fast forward….we have been married almost 22 years. I guess it must have been the most memorable date that I had!!
We have had many dates over the last 24 years. Some where spur of the moment. Like last night. MY dd had a fondant cake decorating class and dh asked if we could take her together and go do something while she was a class. So we took her to class, while driving after leaving her off I read to dh from the book we are reading together on parenting and we went to Chick-fil-a and got a shake. Then we went to the library and looked around then we went to pick up dd. It was not a great date but we had a great time talking and planning.
Then there are some great date memories like the night we got engaged and an anniversary when we went away and stayed at a hotel for two days. But most of the dates we have are ordinary, but that is ok as long as we are together doing it, that is the point!!! And we do do dates where we end up shopping. In fact, we stopped in a store last night on our date… the everything under $5 store and looked around a couple minutes, and even bought a few things!
One of my favorite dates is one I set up in our bedroom for Valentines day. DH was planning a date for us for Valentines day but on a different night that the actual day of Valentines day. I did not want to let Valentines Day go by without doing something, so I planned a date in our bedroom. The kids made a special dinner, they helped me make some decorations, we put candles in the room, I put soft music on, we ate at the card table, the kids served us (like little waiters and waitresses). We had a special desert and watched a movie on my computer. The whole evening was spent together. It was a great evening!!! It was a surprise!! DH did not suspect anything and he just loved it. I have done it a couple of time now and he appreciated so much. It really touched him that I would go to so much trouble. It is one of the fondest memories I have!!!
I love my hubbie!!!
Debbie Phillips
Over the years my dh and I very seldom left the children to go out on a date except for my birthdays and our anniversaries. We’ve also usually taken one day/evening around the beginning of December to Christmas shop, and that’s always something I look forward to. But even then, we’ve most often had a baby with us! So I guess all of those ‘dates’ have been my favorites! Nothing elaborate…but very sweet times.
But since our twin daughters have gotten older and capable of watching the littles, we do now occasionally go out (maybe every six weeks or so) for an inexpensive supper and then go…grocery shopping together!! I know everyone is so impressed! LOL But honestly, these little times of just being together have been priceless and so enjoyable and refreshing for me! Sometimes if funds are really tight we have just gotten a cup of coffee and talked. At one point in my life, this would have really made me feel deprived and dissatisfied. But over the years, I’ve gotten where I really appreciate the simple times and moments here and there that we can be together…because that’s really what’s important anyway! Finding the romance and happiness in ‘just being together’.
Now having just elaborated on the joy of keeping it simple, I may sound like a walking contradiction when I say that our 20th wedding anniversary is coming and I’m thinking we’ll do something pretty big, maybe even a little trip, to celebrate that big milestone. At least that’s what I’m hoping (and hinting) for! LOL
Blessings to all,
Amy O.
Gosh, It is hard for me to think of a favorite Date! I even asked hubby what would he consider to be his favorite date. We both drew blanks! I mean we love going out together, and we only get to be alone on a “date” about 2 times a month. Our favorite activity is going out dancing. My hubby is Latino and an excellent dancer. We love going Salsa dancing! One of my very favorite things that my hubby does is grab me while I am doing dishes or when I go to greet him at the door when he walks in every evening, and spin me around for a few minutes dancing in the kitchen! (He is such a romantic!
I am not sure if this counts as an actual date but for our anniversary a few years ago we took a road trip up to Washington DC. We had the best time. He stopped at every fun and tacky roadside attraction between here (Tennessee) and there. We went to wax museums, and the worlds largest this and smallest that and just laughed and truely enjoyed each others company. We spent the entire 5 days alone without anything pressing for our attention, visiting every museum we could find!. It was even better than our honeymoon! This time we already know all of each others quirks and we are still madly in love beacuse of (or inspite of a few :D) of them!
Someday when the kids get a bit bigger we’d like to go back to Washington DC. But We really enjoyed that time alone, and I think it just helped strengthen our marriage!
My favourite date – hard to choose having been married for nearly 23 years. We have had so many along the way.
I guess my most recent favourite date was one we had while we celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary.
We headed back to the place we went for our wedding night. We had planned to do it at 1 yr, 5 yrs, and then just gave up the idea. So it was very special. This time we went for 3 days.
We did some lovely driving from North Sydney all the way to South Sydney. Climbed the Sydney Harbour Bridge and had a romantic dinner for two in our corner room overlooking Sydney harbour lights.
It was bliss.
That was the last real date in over 2 years.
Mostly what we do it make sure we have some time out together here at home. Due to where we live, and no availability of baby sitters we usually head out on the front porch – we try to do it daily.
We usually grab a cup of tea, something for Dh to eat and spend time together. If it is over 120 we have this time in the lounge. We just chat, or sometimes just sit quietly togetting – and the children know this is Mum and Daddy time.
🙂
My favorite date was the time that my husband and I went to Estes Park
to hear the Elk Bugle. It was freezing outside> We sat in our car, ate cinnamon rolls, and listened to God’s glory. It was beautiful.
Katy Horn
This is a fab topic and really made me sit and think for a few minutes, but then the memories where so wonderful the smile grew and grew! Followed by questioning looks from hubby!!! So I had to tell him why I waas smiling! His response was – “Well that will be interesting to see what you say!” with a wink!
My hubby is my rock and my best friend, I seen him on my first day at uni! There I was in a different conuntry far from home, all alone and the first person to make eye contact with me and smile (very nervously I remember!) was him! I did him in various classes over the next few months and it was only in one where we had to find a lab partner did we finally meet and talk to each other! Our relationship started as friends as he already had a girlfriend, we stayed that way for 6 months, but then realised that we both wanted more thana friendship. The summer holidays where hardest with a small sea between us! But on return to uni was also my 21st birthday, so we made it official that night and have been together ever since!
I don’t have a favourite date with him as every time we have together was and is magical. He makes me smile, he makes me laugh and he makes me feel like the most important person in his life! My “worst” date well it was only until the end! Was when he took me off to the Galloway forest for a lovely walk together – it rained, we got lost and we walked through an area that had very uneven ground and I kept falling over – resulting in me finally twisting my ankle. We had to walk along the road to finally get back to the car – where he proposed!!!!
Time now with my hubby is very much more limited, so we do try and spend it together, every minute possible! So we do tend to have dates as a family as opposed to just us two. If we want it to be just us then we have to wiat till the kids are in bed and then we usually just watcha movie while we can cuddle on the sofa. Or we put music on and just chat. It is always so magical to spend time with him! Although the older two are able to appreciate this time, our 3 yr old still hasn;t reached tha tpoint and usually wakes on these occasions! But wee still enjoy our time!
There have only been two of these since we’ve had kids but we are trying to schedule in more.
Share all about your favorite date with your spouse?
IT was three years ago on my birthday, I had never been out to eat without our children. So my husband surprised me with a date just the two of us. We went to a local restaurant that had a seafood buffet, my favorite, and ate. He told the waitress that it was my birthday and they actually sang to me and gave me a small cake. It was so good to just be together like we were before our precious little ones came along. I don’t think I’ve eaten that much since they were born and I didn’t have to take one to the restroom during dinner. LOL
What made it special? I don’t think I’ve eaten that much since they were born and I didn’t have to take one to the restroom during dinner. LOL
What did you enjoy?
All you could eat crab legs with only my hubby to share with.
How did/can you make it happen?
My dh is solely responsible for it.
Any fresh ideas?
We are waiting until I am well again.
Melissa Waters