{"id":3249,"date":"2015-07-28T12:27:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T18:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darngoodlemonade.com\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2015-07-28T12:30:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T18:30:27","slug":"love-cancer-and-67-date-night-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darngoodlemonade.com\/index.php\/2015\/07\/28\/love-cancer-and-67-date-night-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Love, Cancer and 67 Date Night Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am amazed Mike hasn’t murdered me yet. Most men have to go through menopause once with their wife, I believe we have done it 2 times now and have been through Tamoxifen and Letrazole. Estrogen blockers are quite similar to going into menopause, at least for me. I will laugh, get extremely agitated and then cry within a 10 minute period. Over something like the dog puking on the carpet (not that my dogs ever puke on the carpet, they are too perfect for that \ud83d\ude09 ). Of course I don’t quite recognize the level of crazy I have going on, because telling a crazy woman she is being crazy is just a dangerous situation. Mike just tries to be as sane as possible while I am throwing fits over spilling something on my favorite t-shirt.<\/p>\n

I eventually realize I am being “hormonal” and try to manage all of this, but it is hard on the both of us.<\/p>\n

Cancer is hard on relationships, but it also teaches you to be better about not sweating the small stuff (when you aren’t in the middle of some random hormonal RAGE). I have learned in the struggles over the past 4 1\/2 years that cancer has been in our lives, that I did marry the most amazing guy in the universe for me. We will be celebrating 8 years of marriage in a couple of weeks and I love every moment we have together.<\/p>\n

Cancer likes to get in the way of us spending constructive time together. When I was at work all day and came home I was in too much pain and was too exhausted to do anything but watch TV. I didn’t have energy for conversations. I applauded getting food on the table (even if it was frozen ravioli from Trader Joe’s that I heated up on the stove). With so many interruptions in our lives we decided to implement date night so we could spend a night focused on each other. Cell phones have to be put away and the only screen that should be on is the TV screen if we are watching a movie. We had transitioning days on who decided what to do, which died fast because we would run\u00a0out of energy to plan, so we would\u00a0end up making dinner and watching TV.<\/p>\n

I saw a date night popsicle stick idea in my feed one day and explored the concept on Pinterest. I wish I could share the link to the original idea I saw, but I didn’t save it. I did a simpler version (they had different colors that represented different groups of dates). So I went to the craft store and bought a box of wide popsicle sticks, a thin black crayola marker and a cute basket that had two jars – one for dates we haven’t done and the discard pile.<\/p>\n

\"date-ideas\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I researched date ideas all over the internet and put a list together on ideas that made sense for us. I added in some items from my list<\/a>. I tried to mix in ideas for cheap dates and a few fancy date ideas The list is currently 67 date night ideas, but I have many\u00a0more sticks to add more ideas in the future:<\/p>\n

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  1. Movie night – husband picks<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Movie night – wife picks<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Bowling<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Build a puzzle<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Video games<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Have a picnic<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Brunch for dinner<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Go to a comedy show<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Fondue night<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Brew beer & eat brats<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. Make homemade cheese & cook with it<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. Drive somewhere & watch the sunset<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. Make dinner together<\/span><\/li>\n
  14. Go to the museum & eat out<\/span><\/li>\n
  15. Make homemade ice cream or sorbet<\/span><\/li>\n
  16. Fly a kite w\/picnic<\/span><\/li>\n
  17. Dinner out, husband picks<\/span><\/li>\n
  18. Dinner out, wife picks<\/span><\/li>\n
  19. Go to a movie<\/span><\/li>\n
  20. Pizza & boardgames<\/span><\/li>\n
  21. Take dogs for a walk<\/span><\/li>\n
  22. Dinner at a bar<\/span><\/li>\n
  23. Make homemade pizzas or calzones<\/span><\/li>\n
  24. Go to a play<\/span><\/li>\n
  25. Movie marathon, 80\u2019s movies<\/span><\/li>\n
  26. Mexican night (food & activities)<\/span><\/li>\n
  27. Italian night (food & activities)<\/span><\/li>\n
  28. Computer game night<\/span><\/li>\n
  29. Eat at a new restaurant<\/span><\/li>\n
  30. Make a favorite dessert<\/span><\/li>\n
  31. Make craft cocktails<\/span><\/li>\n
  32. Go to a trivia night<\/span><\/li>\n
  33. Aquarium<\/span><\/li>\n
  34. Shop for something for the house<\/span><\/li>\n
  35. Make origami<\/span><\/li>\n
  36. Double date<\/span><\/li>\n
  37. Go on a hike<\/span><\/li>\n
  38. Go on a photo scavenger hunt<\/span><\/li>\n
  39. Chili dogs and a comedy movie<\/span><\/li>\n
  40. Planetarium<\/span><\/li>\n
  41. Go see a band<\/span><\/li>\n
  42. Korean BBQ<\/span><\/li>\n
  43. Smores<\/span><\/li>\n
  44. Go play pool<\/span><\/li>\n
  45. Do something nice for someone<\/span><\/li>\n
  46. Reenact first date<\/span><\/li>\n
  47. Stargaze<\/span><\/li>\n
  48. Asian night (food & movie)<\/span><\/li>\n
  49. Build a blanket fort (& watch movies from it)<\/span><\/li>\n
  50. Golf<\/span><\/li>\n
  51. Make treats & drop some off at a friends<\/span><\/li>\n
  52. Write each other letters<\/span><\/li>\n
  53. Make holiday decor for next holiday<\/span><\/li>\n
  54. Dress up and go somewhere nice<\/span><\/li>\n
  55. Netflix TV show marathon<\/span><\/li>\n
  56. Finger painting<\/span><\/li>\n
  57. Go shopping & pick something under $10 for other<\/span><\/li>\n
  58. Go buy a new boardgame & play it<\/span><\/li>\n
  59. Buy a new video game and play it<\/span><\/li>\n
  60. Act like tourists in own town<\/span><\/li>\n
  61. Go to bakery and pick out treats<\/span><\/li>\n
  62. Husband teaches wife hobby<\/span><\/li>\n
  63. Wife teaches husband hobby<\/span><\/li>\n
  64. Color in coloring books<\/span><\/li>\n
  65. Make candlelight dinner<\/span><\/li>\n
  66. Waffle night (fun toppings)<\/span><\/li>\n
  67. Pirate themed date (YAR!)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    We pull the idea a week before so I can buy tickets or plan. We have had some interruptions with other priorities coming up on date night, but we are going to get better at this! For next week I am figuring out how to plan a pirate date. I think Goonies may be involved. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

    With my energy up a little bit I have been crafting a lot more. Learning how to do needle point, painting, drawing, coloring and I need to stay away from Pinterest…<\/p>\n

    Do you have any date night ideas we should add to the list?<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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