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Good Eats (Camaraderie) We’re currently homeless. Well, to be a bit less ambiguous, we’re in between homes. Closed on our house in southern Indiana and about to move into our home in northern-southern Indiana.  So for this date night we went without the camaraderie-building particular of preparing a…

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Ok, we dropped the proverbial ball on this…and with only seven more date nights to 52! To be fair, we recently sold our house, are preparing to move to another city, and were out-of-town with work for nearly two weeks. We’ve had some wonderful times together but our most recent dates…

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For us, Netflix can sometimes serve as the great babysitter of date nights. Early on in our marriage, we found ourselves settling for Netflix & Nap date nights instead of initiative-filled, camaraderie-building, and depth-cultivating date nights. This whole experiment in marital bliss came out of…

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Side Note: Exciting news we recently brought home our newborn baby boy, Haddon!  Good Eats (Camaraderie) For this evenings date night meal, I went with the Good Eats Blackberry Grunt. Great misleading name! The last few days in our home have been fairly tiring and chaotic. Baby…

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Britt and I are self-proclaimed nerds who love reading the footnotes of books and delight at the “J” in each of our Meyers-Briggs. We both have nightmares about drawers anywhere in our house only containing clutter. We would also put cleaning at the top our…

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I wanted to give a little update on how this whole date night experiment has been at the two-month point. Exhaustion and busyness seem to be the consistent distractions. Some weeks we have been more tired than others going into our date night, especially a…

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Matt loves spicy meals, I loathe them, and try to avoid spicy ingredients at all cost! It’s just not my favorite. The perk of planning out our meals each week is that I get to decide what we eat, so red pepper flakes and Tabasco…

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It’s interesting, since we started this date night experiment, we’ve yet to have a most ideal evening to have our date night. Distractions are around every corner, so commitment is the key at this point. This week was no different. I’m actually writing this from Indianapolis and…

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It’s my (Brittanny’s) turn to plan our Date Night! This week we needed to head up to Terre Haute, Indiana, to visit my sister (who was having surgery) and best friend (who just had a baby). My plan for our Date Night was to take…

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Two weeks into our experiment and we’ve already encountered our first distraction. There’s always distractions lurking around every corner. I (Matt) was on the road for work Monday, Thursday, and Friday. I also had a packed week in between those days. Britt also had packed…

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