Nurture

With two small children, you can imagine that nurturing is a daily activity in our household.  Danny and I went to a wedding last weekend.  My mom came to visit and stayed with the kids, we booked a hotel and got our drunk faces on for the big event.  It is not often that we have a kids' free night. 

While I thought of the kids most of the night and probably couldn't stop talking about them to everyone, we had a really nice time out.  It is no secret that I still want one more addition to our family (and no, I do not want another dog).  It is also no big secret that Danny does not...{I'll keep working on him, though}.

So in the meantime, it was suggested to us by many people that we nurture our marriage.  Sometimes it is really hard to get alone time for just the two of us.  We are so busy with schedules, work, fixing dinner, doing laundry and taking care of the kids that we forget to nurture the center of this whole operation. When Marissa was born I was still working full time.  Add in her 7 o'clock bedtime and I was only getting to see her for 1-2 hours each day which usually included bath, dinner, a few minutes of play and then bedtime.  So when the weekends rolled around I had no desire to go out and pawn her off on someone for the night. 

Insert baby number 2 {Dylan}, going to a part time schedule at work and I feel much more relaxed about having a night out with my husband.  I feel like I have quality time with my babies so I don't feel so guilty for taking a night off.  Now I still don't do it that often, but we left Dylan for the first time around 6 months old, so that is quite the improvement from Marissa. 

We do make a point to try and have a lunch date once a week together, but an hour a week to nurture a marriage is definitely not enough!

This weekend we will be having our first ever weekend away since having Marissa.  That's the first weekend in over TWO YEARS!  I'm nervous but it will be good to spend time with Danny (we have a 6 hour car ride ahead of us).  This will be good preparation for leaving the kids for a week in November when we go to St. Maarten for our 4 year wedding anniversary.  Danny has already told me that if I get home sick he will send me home but he is staying the whole week. ;)

Love this guy!