Tagged: Togetherness

Six things Rick & I like to do together, in no particular order:

1. Watch King of Queens. We just discovered this show a few weeks ago and it makes us LAUGH. Still laughing about them getting lost in the mountains last night and Doug going "a little overboard." (Is that you crying? ...No.)

2. Go to dinner with no kids. Any restaurant, just as long as we can take our time. These days Logan is tagging along, but he tries to be quiet. Someday it'll be just the 2 of us again.

3. Go to the temple with no kids. Gets us back to the basics and always triggers great conversation. Reminds us that we're great together.

4. Go to movies WITH our kids. There's something great about looking at everyone lined up down the row and us smiling about it to each other.

5. Talk on the phone in the middle of the day. Cue phone ringing "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" from all of his numbers.

6. Hang out with great friends. We have the BEST friends from coast to coast. We are a better couple after being with our dear friends.

7. Play games. I always win with my street smarts. We used to like doing puzzles together but I don't know what happened to that. Maybe kids happened. Or maybe I stole his thunder one too many times by inadvertently finding the exact piece he'd been looking for for 10 minutes, and he put the kibosh on them. (Is that how you write kibosh?)

8. Go on trips. Just us or as a family, we try to do both. We love weekend getaways and we love roadtrips. We like getting new music for every trip. We're excited about our first cruise in April and northern California in July! Sigh...it's only February.

9. Go on drives a.k.a. Get the family out of the house. Maybe me more than Rick--he likes to have a destination and I like to have a journey. I also like having everyone consolodated in the car. Rick humoring me has evolved to him actually enjoying it too. I think.

10. Laugh. It doesn't matter at what, but I love hearing Rick laugh. He probably likes me laughing too because it means I'm not grumpy.

11. Sit. Usually on the couch after the kids are in bed and the house is straightened for the last time that day. Sometimes we treat ourselves to DoubleStufs and milk. Mmm. We've learned to pace ourselves with the cookies, though, because if we let them, they can get the best of us. We do love the DoubleStufs.

Well, that was more than six, but I was on a roll. Now I'll publish this, think of many more and feel like I've done my marriage a disservice by not thinking of them sooner. Tag, you're it.