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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Quality Time
What's something you and your husband do as a couple to spend time together? Read books? Go on walks? Play boardgames? Put together puzzles? I'm looking to add some new ideas to my list so give me all you've got!
My husband goes to school full time in addition to his full time job so we don't see each other much. We always try to have a date night at least once a month(I know, bad) which usually is a trip to the LDS temple and dinner. When we don't go out, which is obviously most of the time, we try to watch movies together. I always talk with him while he is fixing his dinner at 10:30 at night. We also like to play games. Our favorites are Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride, Nine Hole(card game), and Wizard(card game). A new favorite we just discovered is called Dominion. we try to get another couple to join us for those. It's lots of fun. That's what I do. Hope it helped. Let me know if anyone has questions about those games. www.rachelsgetaway.blogspot.com
We always try to eat breakfast and dinner together. Currently our schedules work out so we can, hopefully it stays that way in the future! :P Most of the time we just end up sitting around, although yesterday we put up the Christmas tree together! heh heh. ;) Needless to say, I may be watching this post for other brilliant ideas. :)
My husband and I love our quality time together. When he gets home from work we tend to hang out in the same room. We'll watch tv together, eat dinner together, an just hang out with each other. But even if were not doing the same activity like I'm watching tv and he's in the computer we still like to be in the same room so we can chat. We originally had my craft room and his office separate but we didn't like not bring able to chat so we combined rooms,
Nick and I are in the same boat Rachel. Full time work and school and right now he's in over time working monday through saturda for the past month. Then Sunday is filled with church callings. Right now I feel like our quality time together is spent doing homework in the same room and going grocery shopping. However, we love playing games together. We're big Settler's of Catan fans too! Sometimes our quality time is spent walking out to get the mail together. We've turned watching a tv series into a game. There's a pineapple in every episode of the tv show Psych. We race to find it first for 1 point and race to guess who did it for 1 point.
Oh, and something we've grown out of, but still kind of fun... or maybe gross. I used to sit on the edge of the bathtub and talked to Nick while he used the potty! He recently asked me why I don't do that anymore. Three words: Pregnancy Super Sniffer. Since then I've been out of the habit.
One last thought. We drive an hour and a half to visit his parents. Not every time and not the whole way, but for a stretch of the drive we'll leave the music off and just talk. It's nice. We have some of our best conversations in the car. He's trapped with me for an hour and a half with nothing better to do than talk! Sometimes it's nice to shut out the world and focus on each other.
Nothing new to what's been said, but we LOVE to play games and read together. We always have a book going. Sometimes I read to him while he does dishes, or while we drive somewhere. He reads to me while I get ready for bed (since I take about 4 times as long as him). We also love to go for walks and chat.
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My husband goes to school full time in addition to his full time job so we don't see each other much. We always try to have a date night at least once a month(I know, bad) which usually is a trip to the LDS temple and dinner.
When we don't go out, which is obviously most of the time, we try to watch movies together. I always talk with him while he is fixing his dinner at 10:30 at night.
We also like to play games. Our favorites are Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride, Nine Hole(card game), and Wizard(card game). A new favorite we just discovered is called Dominion. we try to get another couple to join us for those. It's lots of fun. That's what I do. Hope it helped. Let me know if anyone has questions about those games.
www.rachelsgetaway.blogspot.com
We always try to eat breakfast and dinner together. Currently our schedules work out so we can, hopefully it stays that way in the future! :P Most of the time we just end up sitting around, although yesterday we put up the Christmas tree together! heh heh. ;) Needless to say, I may be watching this post for other brilliant ideas. :)
My husband and I love our quality time together. When he gets home from work we tend to hang out in the same room. We'll watch tv together, eat dinner together, an just hang out with each other. But even if were not doing the same activity like I'm watching tv and he's in the computer we still like to be in the same room so we can chat. We originally had my craft room and his office separate but we didn't like not bring able to chat so we combined rooms,
Nick and I are in the same boat Rachel. Full time work and school and right now he's in over time working monday through saturda for the past month. Then Sunday is filled with church callings. Right now I feel like our quality time together is spent doing homework in the same room and going grocery shopping. However, we love playing games together. We're big Settler's of Catan fans too! Sometimes our quality time is spent walking out to get the mail together. We've turned watching a tv series into a game. There's a pineapple in every episode of the tv show Psych. We race to find it first for 1 point and race to guess who did it for 1 point.
Oh, and something we've grown out of, but still kind of fun... or maybe gross. I used to sit on the edge of the bathtub and talked to Nick while he used the potty! He recently asked me why I don't do that anymore. Three words: Pregnancy Super Sniffer. Since then I've been out of the habit.
One last thought. We drive an hour and a half to visit his parents. Not every time and not the whole way, but for a stretch of the drive we'll leave the music off and just talk. It's nice. We have some of our best conversations in the car. He's trapped with me for an hour and a half with nothing better to do than talk! Sometimes it's nice to shut out the world and focus on each other.
Nothing new to what's been said, but we LOVE to play games and read together. We always have a book going. Sometimes I read to him while he does dishes, or while we drive somewhere. He reads to me while I get ready for bed (since I take about 4 times as long as him). We also love to go for walks and chat.
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