Marriage Retreat

In October we were able to "get away" for a weekend and go to a marriage retreat our church sponsored. It was a great weekend. We chose to rent a small cabin and share it with our friends Greg & Tomi Lowes. I am so glad we did. Above are pictures of our little love nest. Little is the key word. Tomi and I both envisioned it having a living room of sorts since the listing said it included a TV. Nope, as you can see the TV was on top of the refrigerator in the kitchen. The only room other than our separate sleeping quarters. We still had fun sitting at the table playing games and visiting when we weren't in sessions.

Since Titus is still nursing he got to come along. While this wasn't the perfect scenario for a getaway weekend it worked out pretty well. He usually slept during the morning session and the late evening session so we were still able to learn a lot. And we were able to visit in our little cabin with the Lowes after he was in bed.

While there was a lot of information presented I think the thing I enjoyed most was the opportunity to focus our conversations away from the everyday and talk about our relationship, dream about the future, and laugh together (without the interruption of little people.....well less little people anyway) One of the things Jeremy an I try and work at is focusing our date conversations on things other than schedule keeping, the kids, the to list, etc. So, we are always looking for fun conversation starters that help us to talk about the kind of stuff we chatted about when we were dating like our dreams, interests, growing up years, etc.

So, I wanted to share with you a Match Game we each filled out and then let the other person try and guess our answers. It made for some fun conversation. I've changed it slightly to update it a bit. (One of the questions was- The coin return is on the right or left side of a pay telephone)