Date Jar: The Beginning.

I love my husband. He is bitingly funny (though painfully shy). He's smart (sometimes too smart for his own good). He's outdoorsy, in that he loves hunting and fishing (not like me, who is outdoorsy in the sense that I like to drink wine on my back porch). And he loves me unflinchingly and unwaveringly (are those words?).

But after many, many weekends in a row of watching DVR'd episodes of Game of Thrones and playing "What Can We Make for Dinner Out of What's Left in the Fridge", we were BORED. Bored bored bored.
Enter Pinterest, and this cool idea: The Date Jar. Now I have to admit: I am not as crafty as this lady. Not even a little. I did not have colored popsicle sticks and ribbon floating around my house - nor was I motivated enough to drive to Hobby Lobby and buy some. What I DID have was a blue mason jar, some colored paper, a pen, and more than a few ideas of things The Hub and I have always wanted to do. Oh, and a glass of Pinot. Thus, the date jar was born.

Here are the rules:
1. We will try our utmost to go on at least one date a week. This will probably occur on weekends because, honestly, it's the only time the two of us aren't exhausted from working.

2. We have two colors of paper in our jar. White dates are simple and relatively inexpensive; purple dates take some planning and money. We want to do at least one purple date a month, even if we have to pull it a few weeks in advance to save and plan. Now, I don't know if purple dates will actually happen, but it will be fun to try!

3. The Hub gets to pull. Yep, every time. This was his rule, and I don't mind because, honestly - most of the dates in the jar were my idea so... it's only fair.

4. I will blog about each one. I want to document this piece of our life, this special time when it is just the two of us in our family, where we know each other so well yet still have so much growing and learning to do together. How cool will it be to show our kids this year together? Kind of like... "How I Dated Your Mother".

xoxo,

Meghan