Dating again...but still each other!

One thing that Linds and I are learning right now is that as life takes on different degrees of hustle and bustle it is important to be able to appropriately match it with varying degrees of intentional time together. For example, while deep in the quagmire of a busy school year, I could be at job #1 from 5-12:30 AM, at class from 1-2:30 PM, and at job #2 from 3-6:30 PM, and then grab a redbox movie and some flowers and consider the bleary-eyed evening our date-night. At the time, it worked, well it kind of had to work. Being intentional about our time is an easy thing to do if it is a necessity, but it seems to get so much more difficult to master when the days are not all piling on top of each other. Now that we are liberated from the necessity of that kind of crazy schedule one of the things that we are wrestling with is how to still invest in each other appropriately.

As the summer has kicked in we have found that we are still tending to pack the weeks full of all kinds of things, still thinking that a half-asleep late-night movie will cut it as a way to keep the romance alive. The fun events we go to we go to with others, and when we go out to dinners we are often doubling up with friends. This is not enough.

Yesterday, we changed things up a bit. It wasn't anything too fancy, our budget doesn't allow for too much of that, but it was fun and it was nice and it was just the two of us. We went out to a nice dinner (thank you, graduation gift cards!), took a long walk through a new park we found, and then went out to a simple movie. It was pretty awesome, and it was just what we needed. I am happy to be learning this lesson, and I am excited to be able to keep practicing over the next weeks, months, and years.

- Drew