go out on "date nights" with my partner on a regular basis

going to the drive-in, eating at our favourite cambodian restaurant by the water, even spending random time on the weekend with his family. all lovely, we take what we can get and are thankful.

i think at the moment it’s more important to just appreciate and maximise the little moments that we have: weekday breakfasts, enjoying a pre-dinner drink, hand and arm massages on the drive to work. we’ve bickered quite a bit recently, a bit of grumpiness and tally-keeping, born, i believe, because of our limited time budget :( i think i’m going to change this goal to something more challenging, as we seem to be good at date nights. maybe “recognise, appreciate and cherish small moments with D, no matter when or where they appear”

it’s a bit hard at the moment, finance and work pressures etc, but we’ve been having really nice evenings and weekends together :D we had a barbecue in the rain last weekend, in a random park on the other side of town- heaps of fun, very yummy :D he’s very conscious of doing romantic, quirky, surprising things too :D very happy!