Category Archives: Date Night Ideas

A Fresh Start – With A Limp

We’ve enjoyed our week off, but like most vacations we found ourselves missing our daily interactions with you. We pray you’ve enjoyed celebrating Christmas and New Year’s with your spouse, family and close friends. Our emotions are mixed about so … Continue reading

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Romantic Sleigh Ride – Florida Style

When Tom got home from work yesterday he asked if I would get the mail. When I opened the door going into our garage – I screamed! There, parked in Tom’s space was a silver convertible! I found out he … Continue reading

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Time In A Bottle Date

If you haven’t heard Jim Croce‘s famous song, Time In A Bottle. Take a moment to listen to it below: One of the best gifts of marriage is being able to enjoy God’s creation together, whether it’s on exotic trips … Continue reading

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Romantic Orlando – Antonio’s Italian Cafe and Market

Our next offering in our Romantic Orlando series is one of the places we frequent on our weekly Monday date nights. Antonio’s Italian Cafe and Market. Antonio’s has been in business in the city of Maitland, since 1989. It has … Continue reading

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A Heart To Bless

Our B.I.G. Christmas Giveaway Contest has proved to be our best contest ever. Thank you to all who took the time to share with us your stories and your heart to bless your spouse for Christmas. We wish we could … Continue reading

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B.I.G. Christmas Giveaway Announcement!

A generous donor has given us a B.I.G. Christmas Giveaway to offer you – our readers! We are very excited to share with you the details, and we hope you’ll be as excited to enter to win. This would be … Continue reading

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The Christmas Cottage

Our Here’s to Us moment #1 is an entire post – it was that good! Not all of our moments will warrant an entire post – some may only show up on our Facebook page. But what a perfect way … Continue reading

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Don’t Miss The Good Part

It is the last day of November. Tomorrow, like it or not, the Christmas season will be in high gear. I love to decorate our home for Christmas. In fact, I love to decorate our house for all the seasons … Continue reading

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Romantic Orlando – Yellow Dog Eats Bistro

There is a little town to the south and west of Orlando called Gotha. It was established in 1879 by a German Immigrant who named the town after his home town of Gotha, Germany. If you didn’t know it was … Continue reading

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Whom God Has Made You To Be

First of all, we are changing the name of our Monday posts. It will be relevant to what we are posting about, but will still include our weekly “Mark Your Calendar” information. Thanksgiving has come and gone for another year. … Continue reading

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Mark Your Calendar

New life – there’s nothing like it. Whether you’re a new born baby, like our 1st great nephew, Django Kelly Sanchez, who was born on Saturday: Or you’re newly born again. (I will celebrate my spiritual 42nd birthday on December … Continue reading

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Win Or Dare Putt-Putt Date Night

You’ve heard of Truth or Dare most likely, well this is cleaner and a great way to spend an evening outside on your next date. This post was originally a guest post on The Generous Wife blog last week, but … Continue reading

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Mark Your Calendar

Have you ever noticed how after a big event or high point in life it is usually followed by a let down? Trying to adjust to normal life can make one feel downright blue. Why? Most likely it is because … Continue reading

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Mark Your Calendar

How do you celebrate your wedding anniversary? Is it a special date on the calendar every year where you know you’re going to have quality time together? Or do you simply exchange cards? For the most part we have celebrated … Continue reading

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A Fragrant Aroma – Our Naked Date Night

We did it. This has been on our minds to do for a long time and last night it happened. As we were getting out of the car, Tom said, “I’m leaving mine here, and I want you to leave … Continue reading

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Mark Your Calendar

I’m glad today is finally here, because it means tomorrow it will be over. I’m talking about Halloween. I don’t mind the candy, it’s the evil pictures and horrifying commercials that seem to be everywhere that I hate. And soon … Continue reading

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A Fragrant Aroma – How You Live

We recently saw the movie, Courageous, and we’re ashamed to admit, we assumed it would be a good story with mediocre acting as are many Christian productions. We are pleased to say loud and clear – We Were Wrong! The … Continue reading

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You’ve Got Mail Date Night

We posted about this date a three years ago, but for the sake of our new readers we thought we’d share it again. ______________________________________________ Debi loves the movie, You’ve Got Mail. She watches it at least once a year, but … Continue reading

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Turn Up The Heat

Sadly, Lisa Graf with Mom Blog took the title of this post quite literally. She has a high fever and is quite sick, so I’m covering today’s post all by myself. Lisa – we pray God heals you quickly, so … Continue reading

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Mark Your Calendar

Eight months ago Tom took me away for our 32nd anniversary. The plan was to spend a couple of days playing golf at a beautiful course in south Orlando. You may remember we had to go from Plan A to … Continue reading

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