{Date night box}

Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone!!!

I don’t love my fam­ily any dif­fer­ently because it’s Valentine’s day, but get­ting flow­ers sure does make a woman feel spe­cial

Which brings me to todays craft project share.

As par­ents of two lit­tle ones, who have less than the required amount of sleep, mak­ing times for our­selves kind of ends up at the bot­tom of our priorities.

Often, we are too tired to find a baby sit­ter, make reser­va­tions and go out on an actual date. So we end up spend­ing more and more time watch­ing Net­flix in our PJs. Which is nice, but only in moderation.

So I finally decided we needed some­thing to make us jump out of this rut.

We needed to spend qual­ity time with each other, just each other– not the baby mon­i­tor included.

And prefer­ably wear­ing shoes not just warm fuzzy socks.

When I need to be excited about some­thing– I turn it into a craft project.

(Except for tax fil­ing– there is no way I can make that a craft project. sigh)

The first thing I did was to exchange Date night child care with another Mom friend.

To make this suc­cess­ful in the long term, try and pick a fixed day like the third thurs­day every month, so that it becomes part of your routine.

Then I made this cute cute cute Date Night box and you can see the step by step tuto­r­ial for it (with more pho­tographs explain­ing how) at the Fiskars web­site here.

Now this Date box sits on our man­tle and is a con­stant reminder that we are going to be hav­ing a date night soon!!

The box is filled with ideas that I would like to do on a date night. I also included a pen and a paper pad inside it, so that hubby dear could add his thoughts and ideas into it too.

And just the other day, we were watch­ing Dri­vers Dives and Drive ins and they show­cased a restau­rant in our city that looked deli­cious, hubby dear, got up from the sofa, went to the man­tle, got this date box out and wrote down the deets of the restau­rant and said “We are going there for a date!”

Mis­sion Accomplished.

Because really, to be bet­ter par­ents you need to nour­ish your rela­tion­ship with each other first.

And as often as possible.

Not just on Valentine’s day