What itch?

It's been 7 years since James and I said our vows in a beautifully decorated church (we got married the week after Easter so all the flowers and decorations were still out - sweet!).

In planning the wedding and living where we lived, I knew there was a strong possibility of rain, snow, cold on our big day and I was okay with that.  I did not expect a beautiful blue sky, sun shining bright and temps that had to be in the 80s. 

1 child and 7 years later, we are working hard to enjoy life and marriage.  We are traditionally in the 7 Year Itch danger zone.  Recently, I heard that the new 7 Year Itch is actually now at 3 years.  A quick Google search reveals that a combination of long working hours/stress, a tendacy to take seperate vacations, and simple boredom of routine is pushing the itchiness to earlier in the marriage.

Since this change over took place somewhere between our 3rd and 7th year of marriage, I figured we slid right on through and there will be no need for Calamine Lotion for us two love birds.

However, having an evening to ourselves made us realize that we have very few evenings to ourselves. Everyone knows how important it is to take time out for your marriage - especially when their are kids.  But honestly, when you are simple living life, just trying to get by - it's really, really easy to not even notice how long its been since you took a time out to focus on that person you should really be focusing on.

With the two of us, weekdays are very routine.  I wake up, go to work, come home, James goes to work.  Repeat.  Weekends are almost always filled with seeing friends or family.  Even though we are especially blessed to have several willing babysitters, we have not been taking advantage of it. 

A remarkably good dinner last night was such a special treat for the two of us.  Not having had a date night in awhile made it even nicer but also made us realize that maybe we should try this out on more then just special occassions.

After dinner, we discovered there were no movies we really wanted to see so we went home.  At 9:30pm.  Losers we are, I do not fight you on that.  We laughed in the car as we pulled into our parking space at how things have certainly changed in 7 years.  It was good though, we camped out on the coach, which is another rarity and watched the first 3 episodes of Six Feet Under. 

Today, our actual Anniversary will comprise of attending a Home Owners Meeting regarding our sucky Home Owners Association and having dinner at my parent's as we pick up the best result of our 7 year union.