Many of us in relationships find it hard at times to do things with our partners. Most of the time if you have kids, taking them to the park or maybe to an appointment together or even taking them on a fun-filled vacation can be an adventure. Then of course there's date night when you two can have your alone time. For me, it's not that often that my partner and I get to spend alone time or even time together. We have Scrabble night but of course the kids are playing with their toys or even recording us with their Leap Pads. Then there are family events that we go to where we can enjoy ourselves and really not have to worry about the kids but we're technically not alone.
Since my partner has been on vacation Thursday we have been doing some interesting things together. After waiting for our five year old at the bus-stop, then picking up our three year old from daycare we as a family went grocery shopping. Before the summer it was just me, during the summer, me and the boys. Now since school has started I've been able to go my normal day because my partner is home on vacation. Going grocery shopping with three males is an adventure but kinda nice because I don't have to push the cart and keep saying 'no'. When we got home I was able to put the groceries away in peace since they all went for haircuts. Believe it or not I enjoyed that time together as a family. It was a busy day but worth it since I had my three men there.
Friday after dropping off the youngest at daycare, my partner and I headed to the gym. Normally he goes early in the morning before work and I go after I drop the youngest off. This session he went his way and I did the same.
Over the weekend we took a rode trip. We learned three things on this trip. The first thing, it takes longer than four hours to get out of New York. Two, we can spend a long amount of time in car and not want to kill each other. And the last thing that we learned, when our kids get to the college age, if they want to go to a school in Upstate New York, we wouldn't mind taking the drive. Believe it or not that drive was the longest amount of time that we spent together since our boys have been born.
Now today, we did the same thing that we did on Friday but this time I had him training me. So today when we got to the gym, we had me doing squats the whole time. We may have gotten to the gym around 9:30ish and at about 10:15-10:20, I did some leg curls and calf raises. We had to be out of there in time to get our five year old off the bus at 11:00. When we left the gym, my legs were wobbly, well actually at some point during the work-out my legs were wobbly. Now when I go to the gym I do a variation of squats along with some deadlifts, elliptical machine and treadmill. I also discovered that I had been doing my squats WRONG!!!!!
My legs are still wobbly and I feel good and I can't wait for tomorrow's work-out so we can have our 'Couples Time Alone'.
