One thing that Austin and I are working on is carving out time for us in the week. It's actually much more difficult than I had imagined it would be. During pre-marriage counseling, we talked about the importance of having a "date night".
Easy, we thought. We'll just pick one day a week and that will be our date night. Nothing to it.
But with an ever growing "to do" list, weekly commitments, both of our families in town, football games, trying to catch up with friends...it seems as if our weeks fill up before they even begin. It's especially hard because all of the things we do are activities we enjoy and want to do, and fun things just keep popping up...for example, when Tim Reed spontaneously calls Sunday evening and invites us over for a bonfire, how do we say "no" to that? Who would even want to say no? So, instead of the quiet evening at home with Season 3 of Mad Men and some Riesling, we enjoyed time with family, roasted hot dogs and s'mores, and star/planet gazing through Kyle's telescope. Not exactly quiet, "us" time, but definitely an amazing evening that I wouldn't have traded in for all the Mad Men in the world.
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