For Christmas this year I gave my husband Josh “A Year of Dating” – 24 date nights, 12 out and 12 in, two for each month of the year.
One of my friends did that for her husband and he apparently loved it. While I set mine up differently than she did and have different dates planned, she was a great help in putting it all together – Thanks Erin!
I looked around the internet for some great ideas on how to present it, and ended up doing something similar to this idea found over at Find Joy in the Journey.
I didn’t have a cute basket to put mine in, and I don’t actually have anything in the envelopes (yet), but I liked the idea of tailoring the dates to the specific month and having them all planned out, with hopefully all we’d need for those dates in the envelopes.
Here are my “One Year of Dating” envelopes:
Dear Josh,This month it’s all about ART!Pick a day and let’s create a work of ART at home!Then pick another and let’s go see some ART.So that our heARTS may become one!Love,Kate
Month One Date Night In
I got our art supplies together – Acrylic paints (which I rarely use), paintbrushes, canvas, cups for water, gel medium, and palette paper. I had Josh pick out five of the ten colors (to hopefully make it more cohesive), and then we got to work.
Our finished picture is abstract (puts less pressure on either spouse to make something that looks like something real). And our final painting (in the orientation we liked best) looks like this:
Josh did the lower left portion. I did the fireball of doom, and we both worked together to do the upper left side, which we redid and redid as neither of us would like what the other one would do – ha. What do you think of our masterpiece?Month One Date Night Out
While these date nights were actually planned for the month of January, we finally completed them in the month of March. But, I like that I have ideas ready to go in case life gets a little busier than planned or you have more time later. I’ll be posting the other months of dates as we complete them and putting links at the bottom of this post. I hope you look forward to seeing them!A Year of Dates – Month One Date Nights
A Year of Dates – Month Two Date Nights
A Year of Dates – Month Three Date NightsA Year of Dates – Month Four Date Nights
A Year of Dates – Month Five Date Nights
A Year of Dates – Month Six Date Nights
A Year of Dates – Month Seven Date Nights
A Year of Dates – Month Eight Date Nights
A Year of Dates – Month Nine Date Nights
A Year of Dates – Month Ten Date Nights
A Year of Dates – Month Eleven Date Nights
How to Make Your Own Year of Dates Gift
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