Date Night

Brian and I have been married for almost six months, and this weekend was the first weekend that I went out without him. It felt so strange not having him with me. On Saturday I went to the park with a girlfriend and her adorable son, and then today I went to coffee with a new girlfriend (don't you just love making new friends?!) and had awesome conversation and awesome cake at the cutest little coffee shop with flowers blooming everywhere.



I know that it's fine and completely normal for couples to do their own things, spending some of their time separately on weekends - but me and Brian have just never done that before. A lot of couples I know have 'date nights', which is great - I think it's so important to make time to focus solely on your spouse and enjoy each other. But honestly, even though we don't call it 'date night', me and B have that every day - because we do almost EVERYTHING together. Of course we have our own interests, like my art, and his gymmingness, but for the most part, everything we do is with each other. Even the everyday mundane turns into a date. Brian usually detests Grocery Shopping, but he wants to spend time with me, so he comes and we end up having a blast. (SIDE NOTE: this might be because our first date before we were even officially 'a couple'' was at a Grocery Store. We were just friends, but had just confessed to having feelings for one another the night before - and he wanted to hang out with me. I had to do my grocery shopping, so he said he would come along. Needless to say, it was a very electrically charged shopping trip!).

Even all our social time with other people has been together. The only time I hang out with people without Brian is when he is at work - but when he isn't at work, I am always with him. I don't know if I should just chalk it down to being newlyweds, or if it's because we had a long-distance relationship for two years, so we still try to soak each other up as much as possible. I love that Brian wants to spend so much time with me, and that he is constantly showing his love and affection for me.



Springtime Swap Update: Hey Swappers! Don't forget that this Wednesday April 1st is the Mail Date for your goodies. I am excited to see what everyone sends. Don't forget to email your partner once you've received your package, that way they will know that it's ok to blog about it because you've seen it already. It would be great if you would also email me the link to your post about it (spotty_zebra@hotmail.com), so then when I have them all, I can put the links to your blogs all up here for everyone to see.