when the word of the day is.....

CONSISTENCY (reminds me of pee-wee's playhouse)

moving on.

CONSISTENCY (insert loud AAAAAAAA here)

so far we have been CONSISTENTLY (AAAAAAAAA) sick here,

and i have CONSISTENTLY (AAAAAA)  not done things the way i've planed.

SO, i'm doing fairly well at being CONSISTENT :) (AAAAAAA)

(oh, and i'm ok with that too :)

One thing we HAVE been working/planning out is being CONSISTENT on our date nights.  my friend and her husband have institued a "date jar" which i thought was pretty cool where they wrote out 52 dates, not one repetitive date!!! you check it out here

For us, a lot of our "dates" end up being after kids are in bed and we pull the laptop on the bed and pull up something on youtube, hulu, or netflix instant play.  that also involved me falling asleep about 2 minutes in.... (that is something i CONSISTENTLY do :)

so for us, we have one week a month where we go to the temple and have a sitter. then we decided because of our budget, to have 1 date out a month and the rest be after kids go to bed. our problems are that we are dull, boring old married folk (9 years tomorrow folks!)

 we have a few ideas to get us up and going towards CONSISTENCY: (please don't judge ;p)

1. "how to" nights, learning something new (that's as far as that idea has been developed)
2. playing HORSE (ya know, the basketball game)
3. playing one of our many board games
4. drawing/painting portraits of each other
5. massages
6. foot rubs
7. building a fort in our room and reading short stories with flashlights together.
8. i suggested another scavenger hunt (we did one at a bookstore last year that i thought was fun, buuuuuut, lets just say, brad's not so into that.) 

so that's all i have.  any other ideas, cheap (remember.... itty bitty budget) and fun, for out and about AND at home after the kiddlets have drifted off to dream world would be GREATLY appreciated!

Happy new years resolution keeping y'all!