What weekends are for

Ok, so you’ve been in a relationship for more years than you thought you’d live and one day you notice that weekends just happen. You decide on Saturday morning what you’re going to do. Maybe you’ll do laundry. Maybe you’ll mow the grass. Maybe you’ll run errands.

Remember the time in your life that you planned the weekend so you’d get all those chores done but you’d still have some time for fun? It seems that quite a few of our friends are in this boat too. By the time the chores are done, they’re just too tired to go out and have fun. We’ve packed so much into our lives that there’s little time for pure relaxation. What I like to call “think time.”

Starting early in the week, plan out your weekend so that you can spend some time to show the person you love above all others how special they are to you. Perhaps you could run the errands together and stop for a coffee at their favorite shop. After you mow the grass, maybe plant a shrub together. (For those of you with ass deep snow and couldn’t find grass to save your lives.. it’s summer where I am, gimme a break.)

What’s important is to include each other in your plans, whatever they are. Sure, we can’t spend every weekend out doing some exciting thing together, but we can make the time we do spend together memorable.