{"id":579,"date":"2013-06-10T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/thirty-days-of-romance-june-2013\/"},"modified":"2015-05-27T16:14:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T20:14:57","slug":"thirty-days-of-romance-june-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/thirty-days-of-romance-june-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirty Days of Romance June 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cI\u2019m in love, I\u2019m in love\u2026and I don\u2019t care who knows it.\u201d Elf<\/strong>
Today is the beginning of this year’s “Thirty Days of Romance” for me and Ray. <\/span>
Several years ago, we celebrated being together for thirty years\u2013thirty years since our first date, and we\u2019ve been together ever since! Anyway, we celebrated those thirty years by having what we called “thirty days of romance.” That is, for those thirty days we focused more on each other than other things. We thought of each other more, made each other feel important, did special things for each other, spent more time alone, and just generally tried to focus more on romance than “stuff”\u2013those things that we always have to do. It was such a success that we decided to make it an annual event.<\/span>
We have had a few \u201c30 Days of Romance\u201d in the past few years, and we have loved them! In recent years, we have been getting too busy with my writing and editing, Ray\u2019s work, our publishing company, our family speaking ministry, and all seven of our children and their needs. It just seemed like the long talks, special candy bars, frequent rendezvous (!), etc., were slipping away from us. <\/span>
Some ideas we have used (and\/or hope to use in the future)\u2014some are just simple things that we forget to do in our daily busy-ness. (Feel free to share\u2014we should start a Romantic Revolution!!! \uf04a)<\/span>
1. Make favorite meals \u2014I try to make spaghetti a couple of times during this time\u2013Ray\u2019s favorite!; Ray will grab the kids and make me homemade French fries or have one of the boys make brownies, etc., sometimes.<\/span><\/p>\n