spend more quality time with my husband

Throughout all the ordeal with my family, my husband has been totally awesome. Supportive, picking up the slack when I wasn’t home (even recycling!), fixing stuff around my parents’ house that needed fixing. No complaints, just support. Deep down I knew he had it in him, but what a blessing he has been.

One wonderful thing that has come out of caring for my parents is how much I love my own family.

Date nights, when we do go out, just don’t seem to hold the same value as they useto. Yes we’re getting some time without the kids but we aren’t using that time to improve our relationship. I want to make every moment with my husband more valuable, with or without the kids.

We get away so seldom, but usually to manage to do it around our anniversary. It was wonderful to just take off, he and I, and really communicate and be with each other, with no distractions and no place we really needed to be. It was one of those things that you don’t know how much you’ve missed until you see what actually can be by doing it (if that makes any sense). I want to have these uninterrupted times with him a lot more often.

My husband came w/me so we were able to spend quality time-almost a week in a new place together. You can tell how connected you are to a person when you have to eat in restaurants and just converse :)

2 weeks until a mini vaca/yoga conference in VA…Just spoke about taking a long weekend in April to go hiking and mountain biking.

Our interest in running and triathlons have helped us to become closer. My husband is my biggest supporter and my “coach.” He went to all 5 of my triathlons last year and numerouse 5Ks.
I am so excited that he’s training for a marathon this year and we will spend a lot of time training together.

We’re also taking a minivaca this Feb for a yoga conference.

We’ve been running more together, at the park, on the track and at the beach. I like running on the beach w/him and then having dinner watching the sunset…perfect!

Went on a nice weekend getaway filled w/mountain biking. All the training and my crazy schedule including hours at the gym, pool, etc. has really impacted my husband more than I thought. Although he totally supports my athletic endeavors (and he has his too), I will be more mindful about the amount of time and quality that we spend together.

So trying to have at least one evening a week with no TV (or limited TV).

It does stifle conversation, and is usually rubbish.

on Saturday evening. Sometimes I wish we didn’t have a TV it does seem to take over sometimes and I end up watching all sorts of rubbish. However I think I did over indulge on alcohol, and then felt bad all day Sunday.