New Year's Date

One thing Drew and I are good at is remembering. We love to take time out to think of, talk over, laugh about, and feel warm fuzzies towards, memories. We like to ask each other questions, play truth (as in truth or dare) and come up with lists of favorites: favorite things about each other, about us together, about things we've done.

In this spirit, we've started a tradition. For the past 3 years, all our married New Year's, we've gone out on a New Year's date. Usually with a gift certificate, we go to a nice restaurant on the Plaza and enjoy a yummy dinner and time with each other. During dinner, we make a month-by-month list of big events of the previous year. Despite questioning looks of the waiter, we actually write down bullet points for each month. We remember with fondness, reluctance, warmth, relief, joy, aches, awe, and love all that we experienced, aimed towards, became a part of, and accomplished as people and as a family.

It's a great thing. I'm so glad Drew thought of doing it and hope we'll have a big book of these lists to look back over for all the years we spend together. Probably we'll laugh that on each year's lists, there are spots from whatever food we were eating on the paper- I'm the scribe and also a messy eater.

This year we went to PF Changs, went on January 18th and had to get a babysitter. Lots has changed...seethe month of July!