Just Being Together

I love dating my husband. Really. It is the special time that we can actually sit and have adult conversation together. For the longest time though, my version of what a date night was supposed to be was skewed. I had this big idea that a "date night" should be one filled with dinner at a rather nice restaurant, maybe taking in a movie or going shopping, and then ice cream for dessert before going home.

Just last month, God showed me that date night with my husband does not have to be that elaborate. God convicted me about what a burden that was putting on my husband's shoulders, especially if our funds were low and we really could not afford that kind of date night. I honestly did not know what a burden that was until I talked to him about it. He informed me that when he did not have the money to really take me out like the above scenario, then he did not want to take me out at all(that would explain our recent drought in the dating area).

So from that point on, I lowered my expectations. I realized that I was trying SO hard to create this perfect date night with my man, when all I really wanted to do was to just sit and enjoy his company. So what have we done since then? Here are a few of our date nights (even though some are not nights, but day ideas).

• We left the kids with his mom and went on a one day fishing trip. No we don't have a boat, so we fished off the bank and had a picnic lunch. This was one of the most romantic date nights.
• We ate at the golden arches and challenged ourselves to share a meal for $5 including a dessert.
• He made me a candlelight steak dinner right in the comforts of our own home.
• I made us ice cream cones and we went on a leisure walk in our neighborhood.
• We drove down to the lake and ate dinner at our favorite drive-in.

As you can see, date nights do not have to be expensive or elaborate. Just being together is enough. That in itself is date night for me.

Our guest post this week is from Jennifer Sikora! She and her husband live in KY where they homeschool their two teenage children. In her spare time, she loves to cook, craft, sew, crochet, and spend time with her family. Jennifer's marriage has completely been restored by God. You can read her testimony on her blog. You can also find her twittering about her life (@jen_sikora) and on Facebook where she talks about all the things God is showing her in her day to day life in regards to being a wife, mother, and child of God.