Friday Night Date Night

We have had a tradition in our house ever since we’ve been married. Well, actually we have had more than one tradition, but this is the one we are choosing to blog about today – Friday night date night! We usually reserve Friday nights for each other and make that one night all about us. Well, we haven’t gone out on the town in quite some time… we’ve been trying to be better stewards of our money and resources, so we’ve been getting quite creative the last few months or so on how we’ve done our “date nights.” However, last night, Greg came home and surprised Jen with a dozen bright pink roses (and chocolate!) and proclaimed that “tonight was going to be a real date night.”

Jen had already had dinner planned, but after that, we went shopping (of course it had to include a trip to World Market!) and then went to see the movie, Fireproof. (Click here to see the movie trailer.) It was absolutely amazing and we totally recommend it to everyone. It had us thinking back too... we were looking through all of our wedding and engagement cards this past week, and through the fun process of reminiscing, we realized that about 5-6 couples who gave us cards/gifts/etc, are now divorced or not together anymore. It sure turned that fun moment into a sad moment. Fireproof had talked about vows and the seriousness of vows, and how when people stand up there before God and everyone, how they vow to stay together for better or for worse… but generally they just mean “for better.” Wow! A movie with some real morals and a convicting story line! It was also a movie that left us with ways to better ourselves and our marriage. Kinda like a challenge.... is OUR marriage Fireproof? So far so good. =)