January Date Night

So, I tried posting about our monthly date nights in 2009 and that idea just drifted away mid-year. (The blogs, that is, not the dates.) I'm going to try to do better this year. Unfortunately, January was a yucky month. Losing our baby was of course the hardest. Then on top of that, it was January. Holidays over, back to work, back to school, rain, cold, snow. Just yuck. I try to find beauty in every day, but let's be honest - it is hard to do in January. Hurray February is here. I digress.

January date night fit in with the theme of the month. We decided on a date night at home on a Saturday night, ordered pizza from our favorite pizza place, and watched a couple of episodes from Band of Brothers. Unfortunately the pizza was--you guessed it--yucky. We've gotten so spoiled with homemade pizza that we were disappointed in the too-greasy, sauce-lacking pizza we paid good money for. We are enjoying Band of Brothers, though. Gent has watched it a few times, but I've never joined in. The best part about the night was the bottle of wine. One good thing about not being pregnant, alcohol is okay again. So all in all, the night was fine, but definitely wouldn't make the date night highlight list.

Now for the uplifting part of my blog entry!

February, March, April, and May date nights are going to be awesome! We have tickets to the ballet, symphony, opera, and symphony again and we are going out on the town! Even better was scoring all eight tickets for only $135. I had a collection of buy one get one free coupons, and we used our Christmas money to fund the rest (thanks Nana and Papaw and the Dicksons!). And we get double date nights in February, March, and April, thanks to Valentine's Day, my birthday, and our anniversary. Woohoo! It will be a great spring.