Date Nights
With our baby girl due to arrive sometime within the next 8ish weeks, Sean & I have been making a huge effort to re-implement date night into our weekly routine. We used to do this really well, and would regularly plan romantic outings. Somehow, though, life got in the way and we found ourselves considering an at-home movie to be "date night" (which it could be, except that I'd be in ugly sweats and would fall asleep about an hour into the movie... and that kind of takes the romance out of it).
As the weeks go on, though, I've found myself saying "only 10 weeks left with 'just the two of us'" more often than I've been saying "only 10 weeks left until we meet our baby girl!" which I realize makes me sound like a terrible person. I am excited to meet our baby girl... incredibly, incredibly excited! But I'm also focused on the fact that our relationship is about to drastically change. I know that seeing my husband become a father will make me love him even more than I do now, but I hope that our transition from simply "husband and wife" to "mom and dad" is a smooth one. So, in the small amount of time that separates us from these inevitable changes, we plan to spend one night of week doing something romantic and meaningful.
Last Friday,we took our dog for a walk along the canal and then went out to dinner. Tonight we plan to do essentially the same thing (but eat dinner at a different restaurant), and even though it's somewhat stereotypical, I'm really looking forward to it.
It does us good to get out of the house and focus on each other, if only for one night a week. But when we get home, I will undoubtedly change into my sweatpants and fall asleep on the couch...
As the weeks go on, though, I've found myself saying "only 10 weeks left with 'just the two of us'" more often than I've been saying "only 10 weeks left until we meet our baby girl!" which I realize makes me sound like a terrible person. I am excited to meet our baby girl... incredibly, incredibly excited! But I'm also focused on the fact that our relationship is about to drastically change. I know that seeing my husband become a father will make me love him even more than I do now, but I hope that our transition from simply "husband and wife" to "mom and dad" is a smooth one. So, in the small amount of time that separates us from these inevitable changes, we plan to spend one night of week doing something romantic and meaningful.
Last Friday,we took our dog for a walk along the canal and then went out to dinner. Tonight we plan to do essentially the same thing (but eat dinner at a different restaurant), and even though it's somewhat stereotypical, I'm really looking forward to it.
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| At my cousin Jamie's wedding last weekend. |
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