Love Strong and Unconditionally: Love Boxes

Today I planned the first life change on my list of goals: Loving More. I found the idea for the date jars on Pinterest but since I already have 2 weight jars (one for pounds lost, ones pounds to loose) a workout tips jar (place $1.00 in every 30 min of exercise) and a workout jar (Popsicle sticks with workout routines to choose from) I thought....I have too many jars! I stumbled upon a card box at me Meijer while buying Christmas tubs for storage and though they were perfect. I grabbed one along with 20 large envelopes, a box of small envelopes and shipping labels. I headed home and came up with 52 dates for me and my husband and 52 family fun dates. I printed Months on the shipping labels and put them on my large envelopes. Then I printed the 104 dates (Hubby dates in Red, Family dates in Blue) and put them on the small envelopes. I went through and looked up the approximate cost for each event, the address, hours and phone number on index cards and placed them into each envelope. I wanted my dates with my husband to be random, drawing an envelope every week but the family dates are planned because of what the activities are. I place 4-5 small date envelopes into the larger dated envelopes and filed them in the card box 2 months per slot. Then I placed the 4-5 dated family fun date enveloped behind the large envelopes so they don't get mixed together. Decorate top of box with your favorite scrap book papers and stickers. One entire year planned with weekly dates with my family, planned and budgeted out. One great way I know I will love my family more by giving them every Monday or Tuesday evenings with my husband.

Here are my Date Ideas:
Hubby Date Nights:
January-
1. Play in the snow together
2. Dinner at local restaurant
3. Comedy movie at home with takeout
4. Bowling
5. Cosmo's Truth or Dare Game

February-
1. Dinner at local restaurant
2. Hotel over night (COSTLY DATE)
3. Wish List (you each write 3 things on a slips of paper that you want to do in the bedroom, fold them up, draw from the hat and have fun)
4. Go to movie theatres for a scary flick

March-
1. Dinner at a local restaurant
2. Romance movie at home with takeout
3. 4 star restaurant downtown (COSTLY DATE)
4. Art of kissing book (try all the many ways to kiss..who knew there was a whole book!)

April-
1. Video game time together
2. Dinner at a local restaurant
3. Go the movie theatres for a comedy
4. I.O.U Hot.....adult game
5. Sexy Stacker Game

May-
1. Horror movie at home with takeout
2. Dinner at local restaurant
3. Choose your pleasure...adult game
4. Tattoos (COSTLY DATE)...cause we have been wanting one LOL

June-
1. Carnival
2. Make dessert at home
3. Go to the movie theatre for a action movie
4. Sexy Stacker game

July-
1. Drive In
2. Ice cream shop
3. Local Band
4. Truth or Dare game
5. Dinner at local resturant

August-
1. Go to the movie theatre for a comedy
2. Twister
3. Concert
4. IOU Hot Game

September-
1. Mini Golf
2. Choose your pleasure game
3. Firing range
4. Dinner at local restaurant

October-
1. Weekend Getaway(COSTLY DATE for our anniversary we are going to Mackinaw for the weekend)
2. NONE BECAUSE OF WEEKEND GETAWAY
3. Dinner at local restaurant
4. IOU Hot Game
5. Haunted House

November-
1. Make pizza together and watch an Italian movie
2. NONE FOR THANKSGIVING WEEK
3. Comedy Club
4. Dinner at a local restaurant

December-
1. Laser Tag
2. Dinner at a local restaurant
3. Hot Tubing
4. Dinner at the Melting Pot (COSTLY DATE)
5. FAMILY DATE FOR NEW YEARS

Family Fun Dates:
January-
1. Play in the snow together
2. Children's Museum
3. Sledding
4. Chuck e Cheese

February-
1. Ice Skating
2. Hockey Game
3. Tubing
4. Sledding

March-
1. Java Gym
2. Bowling
3. Monster Truck Races
4. Great Wolf Lodge for weekend during spring break
5. Morning Movie

April-
1. Craig's Cruisers
2. Chuck e Cheese
3. Gymnastics center
4. Public Museum

May-
1. Nature Center
2. Riverbank run (me and my oldest are running)
3. Mini Golf
4. Baseball Game

June-
1. Drive In Movie
2. Frederick Meijer Gardens
3. Ice Cream Parlor
4. Zoo
5. Grand Haven Beach Day

July-
1. Fireworks/Camp in a tent in the backyard
2. AJ's Fun Park
3. Michigan's Adventures
4. Fishing

August-
1. Flashlight Tag
2. Millennium Park
3. Grand Haven Beach Day
4. Full Blast Indoor/Outdoor Water Park
5. Chuck e Cheese

September-
1. Art Prize
2. Kroc Center
3. Allegan County Fair
4. Robinettes Orchard

October-
1. Klackles Orchard
2. Children's Museum
3. Nature Walk
4. Cornmaze

November-
1. Chuck e Cheese
2. Play World
3. Bowling
4. Java Gym
5. NONE FOR THANKSGIVING WEEK

December-
1. Frederick Meijer Gardens for Christmas Around the World
2. Holiday Inn overnight with water park COSTLY DATE
3. Gymnastics
4. NONE FOR CHRISTMAS WEEK