Have you ever been on the verge of a fight with your partner and you don’t even know why you are disagreeing? A little while ago, Mr. Gumdrop and I were butting heads in a discussion and I was starting to feel attacked and unable to listen and think collaboratively. We kept arguing in circles […]
Archive for tag 'date night'
My husband and I used to have an evening ritual. We’d sit on the couch and watch a favorite show. Once upon a time this involved a bottle of wine, but since Roman, the show sufficed. Since having Iris, this ritual has gradually faded from existence entirely. Now we spend almost all night every night […]
One thing Mr. Garland and I have always been good at is date night. We started doing weekly at-home date nights when we were in college, and have (more or less) kept it up over the years. This last school year, though, we let it slip and while we tried to get back into it, […]
On our first wedding anniversary after Charlie was born, Bee and I went out on our first real date in almost a year. We had a great time, watching a Broadway show and grabbing dinner. It was a big splurge, but felt worth it. What we hadn’t counted on though, was the cost of babysitting. […]
Mr. O and I first started dating in high school. We had no money, no driver’s licenses, and more imagination than sense. One of our favourite ‘dates’ was playing the Walmart Game. Oh, you haven’t heard of that one? Simple: go to Walmart (or Target, or wherever). Start at the end of an aisle with […]
I’ve written before about how Mr. Confetti and I made goals for ourselves as parents, and one of the most important ones was to continue dating once we became parents. We set a goal of two date nights a month, and the older Little C become, the easier this got. Once he was regularly sleeping through […]
Mr. Pen and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary at the end of May. A few months prior we begged my mother to consider watching J so we could go out overnight. That weekend definitely ranks up there as one of the most special and romantic of my life. It wasn’t romantic in the sense that […]
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