Date night for August

August with its summer evenings - makes one want to go to the beach and watch the sun go down. That’s exactly what you can do for this months date night.

Why not pack a blanket – a few tins of coke and call into the local Subway and buy the Sandwich of you choice. I highly recommend the Subway Melt – (turkey, ham, chesses, bacon, lettuce, tomato, green peppers, onion, chilli peppers, pickles, and olives, finished off with a generous helping of BBQ sauce and slat and pepper – DELICIOUS!!!!) Then drive to your local beach. Throw the blanket down and sit and enjoy your subway sandwich while watching the sun go down.

If your feeling adventurous you could also go for a romantic walk along the waters edge, letting the water ripple over your toes, rinsing away the wear and tear of the day.

For those of you that are REALLY, REALLY adventurous why not skinny-dip together!!?? If you are up for this idea remember your towel and also where you left your clothes!! ( Charlene I am soooooo looking forward to hear how this date idea goes for you!!! hahaha I am already in fits thinking about all the things that could go wrong for you both!! hahaha - keep us posted!)

You are going to love this one - Junes date

June has arrived and hopefully with it lots of sunshine and warm days. For your date evening you once again shall leave home – so get the kids looked after. If this is not possible don’t despair – you can always use your imagination and have a wonderful date night at home!!! (Now Charlene even you can´t muck this one up!!)

If going out:- Drive to a park where they have a lake. Treat yourselves to an ice cream and take a walk around the lake enjoying the scenery. Talk about whatever is on your hearts. Then comes the fun part…you and your partner will go BLOOPING.

What is blooping I hear you ask…well let me explain.Find 3 small stones ( NOT for throwing at the police!!)

Position your partner so that his back is at the lake and his face facing you. Your partner must close his eyes. Explain to your partner that you will throw the stones in the water one at a time. You can kiss until you hear the stone go BLOOP on the water – then you must stop.

Throw the first stone – kiss – “bloop” – stop kissing.

Throw the second stone – kiss –" bloop” – stop kissing.

Throw the third stone, but this time instead of throwing the stone into the lake you throw it far behind you, into the bushes. This means you never hear the stone go “bloop” on the water and so you never need to stop kissing.

WARNING: This date can seriously injure your lips!!

If unable to get babysitters and you need to stay at home: Have one of you go to the local petrol station and buy an ice cream. Fill a bath with water. (If you don´t have a bath, fill the sink.) Follow the same procedure as above, the only difference being that you will be blooping at the side of a bath and not a lake.

Use your imagination, take some plants into the bathroom – fill it with every plant from the other rooms of your house. You now will have created your very own little park and lake. Open the window and let some night breeze come through. It will be as good as the real thing. Follow the instructions for blooping – only indoors!!

Be careful when indoors and throwing stones, especially the last stone. You don’t want to throw it through a window or break some ornament,(Charlene!!) so we recommend you just throw the last stone into your pocket.

date night for April and May

Ok people, you need to work with me here!! I am getting some negative comments from people on my romantic ideas.(things like how the idea might not work with their men!!) You are seeing the glass half empty and not half full. I know our men folk are a challenge (believe me I know - I´m married to Kristian don´t forget!!) ...but we just need to stay positive and not already see the problems before they happen.

We need to wake up every day and think "How can I make my partner happy today?" "What wee thing can I do to bring a smile to his face!"

Think back with me for a moment, to the time when you first met. How did you feel? (Go on you can tell me, say it loud, it will do you good to get it out!) Exactly! - you wanted to bring joy to them, you wanted to make surprises for them - you wanted them to know they were special to you. We have to keep this going in our marriages, no matter how long we have been married, no matter how many kids we have! So with this ladies (or men as the case may be) I bring to you date idea number 4 and 5 - April and May. Enjoy!

A simple idea for the month of April.

With the month of April comes April showers. Why not have a romantic walk in the rain. Cuddle up together under an umbrella and enjoy a walk around the area were you live.

(My neighbours now think I am a nutter - here I am standing out in the rain posing and just as they all arrive home from work! talk about bad timing!)
I personally prefer to walk without an umbrella and come home soaked to dry off in front of the fire with a warm cup of soup!

May´s idea takes a little bit of planning.

May is such a BEAUTIFUL month. This month you will surprise you partner with a letter. This letter will contain an invitation to go on a date. It will tell your partner that she/he needs to be ready to be picked at a certain time.

No other details will be contained in the letter. The letter will arrive on the day that the date is to be held.

An hour or so before you need to pick up your date go and get ready yourself. Then leave the house (remember you are married and living under the same roof – you leaving the house and coming back will make this date seem more authentic.)

Use the time to go buy a bunch of flowers or a box of chocolates for your date. At the appropriate time arrive to pick up your partner. DO NOT WALK STRAIGHT INTO YOUR HOUSE – RING THE DOOR BELL!! When your partner answers give her/him the flowers or chocolate. Compliment them on how well they look. Now the evening can begin.

In the car you will have prepared 3 envelopes. In each envelope you will have the name of a restaurant. Let your partner open each envelope and see the 3 choices. He or she will then pick the restaurant that they would like to eat in that evening.

Remember to compliment your date through out the evening. Your aim is to make her (him) feel like they are the most precious, wonderful, loved person in the world.


While at the restaurant take out another envelope. In this envelope you will have 3 slips of paper.

For example:On the 1st slip of paper you could have written: “A FILM NIGHT” with a clip from the local newspaper showing all the films showing in the cinema that evening.

On the 2nd slip of paper you could have written: “NIGHT AT THE ICE BOWL”. This means going ice skating or 10 pin bowling.

On the 3rd slip of paper you could have written: “NATURE NIGHT” This means going for a walk on the beach, or in the forest, or around a lake etc.

Give the 3 slips of paper to your date and let them decide which one they would like to do.These are only suggestions – you know your partner best, so decide 3 things that he or she would find fun to do and write these on the slips of paper.

End the evening by driving the most scenic route home.

This is one of my idea´s that Kristian actually enjoyed!! An alternative to this is to make it a whole day thing. If you have a wedding anniversary this is a good idea. It takes a little more planning but it is well worth it.

You, behind your partners back arrange a day off work for them, (tell their boss to keep it a secret) - then in the morning when they get up to get ready for work you have, in the bathroom, a note that tells them that you love them and that you have hidden a little surprise under their pillow and that they need to go and get it NOW.

Under their pillow you have hidden a home made "gift" card that gives them the day off work to spend with you.

Then tell them they can go back to bed and sleep a while but need to be ready for you to pick them up at 10am. Meanwhile you get the kids out, go pick up a subway, some diet cokes and some nice desserts for a picnic.

At 10 am pick up your partner and drive to the coast. Spend the morning there and have your picnic on the beach. Then just follow the date idea for May from here - only give the envelope with the 3 slips of paper first, so you can go see a film etc in the afternoon, and then the "dinner envelopes" at the end of the afternoon. If you want to be really good to your partner then arrange for them to have the next day free from work as well, just to be at home and relax.)

Friday nights gonna be alright..

Does anyone remember that song? " Friday night´s gonna be alright,.... yes it´s gonna be alright now baby...." (I think it´s from Fame).

Well my Friday night has certainly been alright!!

This week has been a killer! Starting back to work has not been easy after having 4 weeks holiday, especially since I met at 6.00 am all week long. (The things you do to get home from work a few hours earlier.) So I have looked forward to Friday night since Monday morning!!

Kristian and Sara left early this morning to travel to Jytland for a go-kart race (really hope it goes well for them.) They are away until Sunday night. There is only Andrew, Leah and me at home. So what have we been up to this Friday evening? - something that the Danes call "hygge tid" - a really cosy time. Leah and I have stuffed our faces with sweets, crisps, and chocolate while we watched a film, curled up on my bed. Really cosy and relaxing...just what mummy needed. (Andrew was playing a game with his friends over the internet.)T

Thought I would take a break tonight from the "Lets make a date mate" postings, but the date idea´s will be returning very soon along with a few invites to some weddings! Keep your eyes clued to the blog, you never know what will turn up here within the next few days!!

Now I am going to head into bed, snuggle down with one of my good books and just enjoy the blessings of having a bed to sleep in, a duvet to warm me (since my other body warmer is gone for the weekend! haha) and a roof over my head.Yes, this Friday night certainly did turn out alright...

Date idea for January

(Ok I know it´s not January, but I wanted to start at the start, so bear with me....)

January – a month that’s cold, miserable and dreary!! A month when we are all broke!! So our date night has to be something interesting but CHEAP!! Here is an idea….

Idea 1: Things to have: - Candles, Writing paper, pens, bottle of wine (or in my case –cola), favourite sweets/chocolate.Tonight’s date is to be cosy. Through the date you want to share your inner most thoughts and dreams with your partner.Start the evening by lighting the fire (if available) and candles. Pour each other a glass of wine or chilled cola and arrange the sweets and chocolate in a bowl close at hand.


Fetch your duvet and cuddle up on the sofa together to enjoy your sweets and drink. Just go with the flow!!

Now it’s time to go down memory lane. Dig deep into your mind and heart. Think back to the first time you saw each other. Talk about what attracted you the most about your partner. Was it her eyes, his smile?? Was it his laugh??

Think back to the early days - what made you fall in love with each other?? Then take your pens and paper. Write a letter to your partner, telling him/her five things that you like about them. Think about the little things. Maybe it’s the way they take the rubbish out for you. Think deep…it may take a while to find 5 things, but trust me…if there’s a will there’s a way!!You can start your letter by saying “…(name of person) …I am so glad to be married to you because…” and then list the 5 things.

When you have finished, give the letter to your partner and enjoy the closeness of sharing each other’s deepest thoughts and feelings.
Now that´s a good way to spend a cold, winters night!!

Lets make a date mate!

When I get bored I get up to all sorts of crazy things...

For example, a few years ago I made this "book" with idea´s on how to keep romance alive in one´s marriage. I really made it as a joke to give to some friends, (do you remember it Sharon & Jeff?) however all the idea´s in the "book" I actually tried on my husband. (I know I am a sad person!) You will now realise what a patient man I am married to! But I really do believe that keeping romance alive is one of the secrets to a happy marriage.

What are we like??!! hahaha

Anyway tonight I was restless and bored, (the house was all tidy, washing up to date, kids had friends over and Kristian had gone to his mum´s to get her old bike for Sara to use.) So what could I do? Well I went into our computer to tidy it up a bit (when I don´t need to tidy the house I tidy the computer!!) Low and behold I found this file with my "book" in it. (forgot about that!) So I thought I would share these idea´s on my blog, who know´s maybe one of you reading this needs to put a little romance back into your marriage. (Girls you might want to let those un-romantic men read some of these ideas.) So here come´s the intro.....
LETS MAKE A DATE MATE
(Intro)

With the pressure and busyness of life it is so easy to forget to keep the flame of passion, the flame of love alive in ones marriage.I hope that theses next posts will be a help to you and your partner. I hope that it will inspire you both to re-kindle the flame that burned so brightly, burned so passionately in the days when you first met.

Never forget ROMANCE. It is the very essence of our souls!!! We need to remember to kindle the flame of romance!! Never, I say NEVER let it die.

One way to keep the flame of romance burning is to arrange date evenings. These can be once a week or once a month, as suggested in this "book." So without further ado – go get your calendar…YES NOW!! Sit together, just you and your partner, and plot in the evenings that will be your date evenings.Don’t let anything – I repeat – ANYTHING! come between you and your partners date night!!

Now all that is left is to read the ideas on the following posts or make your own ideas. Enjoy fully the coming months together as you live a life of Love – Romance and Passion!!
(Now check back tomorrow night for - Date Night Idea Number 1 - there is one for each month!!)