Last night Will and I went on a Valentine’s date for the first time ever. We’ve been a couple for a decade and as we’ve experienced each 14th of February together Will has gotten progressively softer. We began in year 1 with petrol station flowers, moved on to romantic nights in by year 3, then by year 6 handmade cards appeared. This year, year 10, I got proper Borough Market florist flowers, a handmade card AND a date night. This was the pinnacle of our dating life, I’m sure.
My non-believer
I understand his opinion that it is a bit pointless to pay twice as much for a meal that would be no different on any other day of the week. And I agree that sitting in a room of other couples who are desperately trying to be romantic is a little bit cringeworthy. But I’ve always thought that there is something a tiny bit magical about Valentine’s night and actually, we had a lovely time.
There were no forced gooey eyes at our local curry house, a few heart garlands but the candlelit mood was cut through by a lady dining in a black hoodie proclaiming ‘LMAO’ in big white letters. How apt.
We ate poppadoms, lamb kebab, goan fish curry, garlic naan. Three large glasses of wine and a couple of large Cobra beers. I washed my hair, put make-up on and dressed nicely for my husband. We held hands and talked and talked and laughed and ate and remembered what it is like to be a twosome.
And then we came home to a toddler who wanted to climb in mummy’s bed for cuddles and a baby who wanted some milk and remembered how awesome our foursome is. Nothing beats our awesome foursome.
Even the 4am wakeup call this morning (oh hi man-flu, I see you’re back with a raging sore throat), the old married couple bickering over porridge at breakfast or the morning spent potty training couldn’t put a dampner on our 14th February. I love you, Harold Valentines.
Could you look any more GORGEOUS in that top pic? Time to get out of my pyjama bottoms and dust the biscuit crumbs off my hoodie…
It’s the makeup dude! And the indulgent 5pm bath! And the Instagram filter (god bless Instagram filters…)
Absolutely adorable to read!
Thanks Amy! xxxx
It’s SO important to still make the effort to do coupley things when you become a parent, so hurrah for your Valentines date night! Not so much hurrah for the 4am wake up call and man flu though. x
It really is, and date night is always the thing that gets forgotten! Must make more of a priority of it. x
I so need to make more of an effort with my OH and sort out some sort of date night. I can’t remember the last time we went out just me and him. So bad! Gorgeous pics btw lady! x
Yes! It’s the first thing that always goes in the hectic-ness of modern life! Such fun though x
Sounds like a good night out! We went for a tower of onion rings and a burger (oh the glamour!) and then to the cinema to Les Mis- is it bad that I was lusting after Hugh Jackman as my OH was sat there next to me on Valentines Day?!
such a lovely blog to read :) im happy that u got some twosome time , i have no family and friends to look after my twincesses so still waiting for them to run off to nursery so me and my mister can have some twosome time :) hahahahaha but ur right a foursome is much more awesome than a twosome :)
aw too adorable
looked so fun!
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