You Cook...I Clean
Since we’ve been married, everyone keeps telling us, “Take time for each other!” I used to think that statement was really geared towards couples with children, cause goodness knows they keep you busy. But we’ve recently learned that even without children, you should still take time for each other! So we have implemented a once a week “Date Night.”
We decided our date night doesn’t have to mean going to dinner and a movie, or even spending money at all…it just means that we have to block out time for each other – no one else (no phones/internet, etc). Except for MoMo. It’s hard to find a sitter for him!
On our date last night, Owen cooked me dinner – he found the crock pot and made a yummy roast. And we played Super Mario Brothers 3 on our Nintendo Wii. Every time one of us ‘died’ the other got a turn. Like two good little sharing 8 year olds!
Apparently you can hook that thing up to your internet, and buy old school Nintendo games! Who knew!?! But for some reason when we hook it up to our upstairs TV, the sound doesn’t work. So as we played, we sat in silence (well, talking of course!), and sang the theme music to each other. “DaDaDaDaDaDa-Da” (You know you know it!) Now you’ll be singing it all day…you’re welcome!
And we finished our date by loading up in the car and going to “Ben & Crowded’s” – aka Ben & Jerry’s, but we call it that because every time we go it’s packed!
I know you’re now asking yourself… “Self, how did they come to the realization that date nights are necessary?” Well I’m so glad you asked!
On Sunday we started a new Bible Study class at church for married couples. We’re the youngest and most newly married, but the course is designed for couples at any stage in their marriage. It’s modeled after the book, “6 Secrets to a Lasting Love” by Gary and Barbara Rosberg. We have the workbook that guides you through 4 weeks of study. I won’t go into all the details, but I encourage all you married folk to pick up the book and read along! We’re on chapters 1 & 2 right now.
Every week we have homework, and this week’s homework was to “Date Your Mate” and have date night. So that’s why we did that last night…but we’ve decided to make it a weekly thing!
In light of our new course, we want to encourage all of you married folk to have “Date Night” with your mate as often as you can. Depending on how well behaved your kids are, we might even offer to watch them for you to help you out! Free of charge of course – unless they’re just monsters! I kid, I kid! It’s the least we can do to help promote happy healthy marriages with our friends and family!
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