Let me explain. The wonderful hubs has started working nights 4 nights a week until he finds a full time permanent gig. I am so thankful that he has chosen to help support us this way and it is wonderful that he is able to. While he's been working nights, he also decided to continue to work temp jobs. The past few weeks he's been working this temp job that has an hour and a half commute as well as working the night shift. Now, if that's not enough, throw in continuing to attend church and small group, while balancing family life. He is pretty busy. I love him so much!
Now, while the hubs is busy with all of that, I am working a full time job teaching, tutoring two different kids outside of school, doing grad school, and taking care of the house, all while trying to spend time with the hubs.
A few weeks ago, I decided, mostly after picking up Fridays We're In Love, (where a young wife writes about dating her husband) that we need a date night. I know the hubs has wanted to find time for us to be together and focus on our relationship, as we're still newlyweds and readjusting to living together again, so, next we had to decide what day to have date night... This actually came pretty easy as he works four nights a week, and I tutor 2 nights a week and we have small group one night a week. We picked the one day we both were free.
Last week was our first date night. It was my night to plan so I decided we would go classy. I chose to make shrimp scampi (I had two packages of Campbell's Skillet Sauces, you will want two).
So, I decided to cook some shrimp, make some spaghetti, and toss a salad. When I got home from work, the hubs had a surprise for me. After a short scavenger hunt, I came upon 2 cupcakes from Georgetown Cupcake! So good!
So, I made the hubs set the table before I started cooking as I had to get our activity ready. I decided that we would ask each other questions that I found online, mostly fun questions for couples. This turned out to be pretty great. I found a cute mason jar, decorated it, cut the questions into strips and stuck them in the jar.
We ate dinner and just enjoyed being with each other. It was nice to just sit an enjoy a meal together. After dinner we spread a blanket out on the floor, sat down with some candlelight and dove into the questions. This was my favorite part of the evening. It was nice to sit and be able to just have a conversation about life.
What do you do to keep your marriage fresh? Any fun, cheap ideas for date night?
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