Life as you know, gets kinda busy.
Our own personal life, with a changing schedule and multiple jobs, seems to get busier every day! Luckily we have great family and friends that allow us the time to make sure that Jonathan and I have time for ourselves, so this upcoming year we want to challenge ourselves either further!
We are going to take on Project 52......
What is project 52 you ask, well here you go!! I follow a blog called Simply Modern Mom and she started this project, it's basically one date night a week, no kiddos, either at home or out. Sounds simple right but we all know how other things creep into our schedule, until there isn't any time left to have a date night, so this is what we are going to do to combat that. We are going to try to keep them at home, after Jocelyn goes down for the night and see how creative we can get. The main points will be creative, cheap and spending quality time together. Now the best way to do it, is to set aside the same day every week to do dates, but most of the couples I know are military, cops or firefighters so that's not possible, but what is possible is to look at a months schedule ahead of time and choose your date nights early. Fill in your calender with your spouse before any other commitments. We are going to try to do some out of the house dates at least once a month and we are also going to alternate back and forth on who is in charge of the dates.
Whoever plans the date will blog about the date and whoever is "taken" on the date will give critiques. I hope that you will post and comment about what your date was for that week so that we can all share ideas and come up with interesting and fun way "date" your spouse.
So if you want to join in, just print out the pledge here and fill it out and put it somewhere where it will be a contast reminder to each of you. Fill in the criteria that works for YOU and your family. You may even decide to swap babysitting days with another couple that plans on doing this so that babysitting will be free. We hope that this will be a fun experiment and i know that I have tons of creative friends so I completely plan on stealing ideas :)
Our own personal life, with a changing schedule and multiple jobs, seems to get busier every day! Luckily we have great family and friends that allow us the time to make sure that Jonathan and I have time for ourselves, so this upcoming year we want to challenge ourselves either further!
We are going to take on Project 52......
What is project 52 you ask, well here you go!! I follow a blog called Simply Modern Mom and she started this project, it's basically one date night a week, no kiddos, either at home or out. Sounds simple right but we all know how other things creep into our schedule, until there isn't any time left to have a date night, so this is what we are going to do to combat that. We are going to try to keep them at home, after Jocelyn goes down for the night and see how creative we can get. The main points will be creative, cheap and spending quality time together. Now the best way to do it, is to set aside the same day every week to do dates, but most of the couples I know are military, cops or firefighters so that's not possible, but what is possible is to look at a months schedule ahead of time and choose your date nights early. Fill in your calender with your spouse before any other commitments. We are going to try to do some out of the house dates at least once a month and we are also going to alternate back and forth on who is in charge of the dates.
Whoever plans the date will blog about the date and whoever is "taken" on the date will give critiques. I hope that you will post and comment about what your date was for that week so that we can all share ideas and come up with interesting and fun way "date" your spouse.
So if you want to join in, just print out the pledge here and fill it out and put it somewhere where it will be a contast reminder to each of you. Fill in the criteria that works for YOU and your family. You may even decide to swap babysitting days with another couple that plans on doing this so that babysitting will be free. We hope that this will be a fun experiment and i know that I have tons of creative friends so I completely plan on stealing ideas :)
