Simple pleasures in a busy week!

It's a busy week- as always! Jim has gone to bed early with ear ache and is finding Line Managing hypochondriacs a challenge (+21 separate episodes illness in less than 12 months..some ladies let the side down lol!)- I thought I would try and write the romantic things that are still possible in a busy week when one of you is ill!!

• Make A TV Date- Dating in the Dark on a Tuesday on Living strangely gets us in the mood- for a good chat about relationships at the very least!
• Send lots of  little texts to each other in the day- 4 words and a symbol can say a lot!
• Clear up all the washing up early so your spouse can really enjoy/ get on with their work from home.
• Look at other people's blogs together- one of our followers has some amazing arty/erotic photos.
• Buy and steam and butter in-season asparagus- surprise your partner with an unexpected treat!
• When your partner is late, got caught in traffic, has work at a time you thought they were free- surprise them with your patience!
• Be interested in their day- remember where they said they were going/meetings they would be having and show you are genuinely interested.
• Give specific praise compliment them in a very 'ungeneral' way- I will quote 2 of Jim's texts this week:  Monday- "Thank u for listening last night. Sorry that i am so complicated xx have a wonderful day in ur sexy shorts" Today -" You looked really hot this morning. Have a wonderful day and i am so pleased u had a different Monday".

No babysitters ahhh!

Have tried ...both sets of parents, Godparents...and no babysitters can be found!!- Our daughters meanwhile have been in on the phonecalls and are now saying they will play happily, we will still have time for just the 2 of us and they will go to bed early without a fuss and leave us by the campfire!- they are actually ridiculously excited themselves about staying in a gypsy caravan..with us!!


So the challenge has changed, we need to be able to create that romance and closeness that time alone away together can allow to develop- with our children there too!- we will have to create some different ground rules for them from their normal ones where they realise the main aim of the time away is for Mummy and Daddy to be focussing on grown up time and  that their relationship for that weekend will be a priority. The girls know that we rate our relationship highly anyway but they do end up with us giving them the 'best of us' a lot of the time, which means that when they are finally in bed that we can be too tired and have used up a lot of inner resources already!.