taking time
I spent yesterday at The Americana at Brand yesterday with my sweetie. It was such a fabulous day for so many reasons. For starters, it was a gorgeous day: sunny near 80 with a slight breeze and just a few fluffly clouds in the sky. This Americana place is an outdoor shopping center – and residence – I guess it is sort of supposed to be an experience. I also think it is supposed to something like The Grove (but The Grove is still better).
On top of the fact that it was a beautiful day, BOTH my sweetie and I were up and ready to go by 11am. As sad as that sounds, it is not something that happens often in this house on the weekends the kids are with their dad. Being up and ready to go somewhere by that time meant is that we actually had time to go out and do something. It’s been a long long time since my sweetie and I went anywhere and I know some of that reason has been financial but at the same time going out doesn’t really have to cost anything. Yesterday we spent around $50 and that was because we decided to go see “Iron Man” which I loved but the day would have been just as fun without the movie too.
I really liked that it was all unplanned. I came in the room and asked what to you want to do today? and after he thought for a minute, he said “How about checking out The Americana?” and off we went a few minutes later. It was a good reminder of how much I enjoy spending time with this man I am about to marry, not just at home but out and about too! I loved being outside and holding his hand while we walked. I loved how he window shopped with me and didn’t laugh when I bought the cutest monkey bowl from Sur La Table. It was such a frivolous purchase but it was only $6 so I allowed myself the splurge and now when I wake up and see it sitting on our bookshelf, I smile.
I think there was a part of me that thought we had perhaps fallen into a routine or were forgetting to have fun. We are both so busy with his job and my school and the kids that I think we forgot about us – the us were are without all of that, the us we were before we moved into together. I think that maybe we forgot that spending time in the same house is not always the same as spending time together. I know that we don’t have to go out to spend time together. I am just saying that going out yesterday and taking the time to be together reminded me how I want and need that more often.
It was a good day.
What an awesome day!