Date Nights do Matter.

With everything going on Sean and I decided that we needed a date night and we needed it bad. We needed a timeout to make nothing matter but the two of us. We take our date nights rather seriously whether it's to a movie, dinner, staying in for a home cooked meal, watching a couple of movies through Redbox or on Netflix. Whatever really. It's something we both really enjoy so we try to make a point to have date nights often.

At first, with everything going on we decided it wasn't important in the grand scheme of things. We realized quickly how very silly that was of us. It IS important. Working on and being in this relationship is important to us. And so we went out to Melt even though we told ourselves that we'll only go for celebrations since it isn't the type of place one goes to on the regular, at least ones like us. Read it isn't exactly cheap.

The thing is that although it didn't feel like we were celebrating, we in fact were.

We are celebrating this life that keeps us on our toes. This life that can have you in smiles and hyperventilating tears in matter of minutes. This life that you never know what's coming but you pray that it'll be good. But also taking comfort in knowing that if it isn't good, God handed it to you because he knew you would handle it like a boss. This thing we call life is a celebration. So we proceeded to have the most fun on this night, more fun than any date night we've had to date. It was just different because things are different. And although I've shed quite a few tears in the last few weeks, I've also had moments of hope and joy because I realize that no matter what cards we're dealt, we're alive and that is a gift in itself.