Date Night With My Husband
Tonight
was date night. Even though we’ve been together several years, my husband and I
still try to enjoy a date night once per week. When neither of us is traveling
for work we make a concerted effort to commute into Washington together once
per week and then before heading home try a new restaurant, explore a local
market, have pizza at our favorite pub in Leesburg, Virginia, meet friends for
happy hour, or head back to Winchester for a bite at Chop Sticks, a favorite
local establishment with top flight Asian cuisine. We text and email each other with restaurant menus,
make impromptu stops at interesting shops and put behind us the stresses of the
work day.
If
we can’t manage an evening during the week, we plan an outing on the weekend
such as a visit to a local winery, a wine tasting and lunch at the Locke Store
in Boyce, Virginia, a nice dinner after a Civil War reenactment, or a joint
trip to the hardware store or supermarket with lunch or brunch at Panera Bread,
Bob Evans or a local place on the Winchester walking mall.
We
make it a point to tell one another how we appreciate our relationship and
value the connection that we’ve made, remind ourselves how fortunate we are,
and laugh together. This week is a bonus
week – date night and a weekend trip to the hardware store to buy a new kitchen
faucet. It really is the little things!
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