On my way home from the store tonight I got a phone call from the security company we use for the store. I was annoyed because they had already called the police by the time they called me and I figured it was probably a battery issue or a connection issue, i.e. their fault. As I’m headed back to town
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A couple of weeks ago I asked Derrick to write a blog post and had given some suggestions by giving him a couple articles. He turned one of the articles around, and instead of commenting on an article that declared 5 things that will destroy your marriage, he wrote about Ideas For a Better Marriage From His Perspective. As I
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Make time for yourself This I believe is the one of the foundations of a wholesome long-term marriage. If you lose your individual identity you lose your self-respect and your self-importance. You were a person before you became a couple and family, this should remain an integral part of the lives of each person in a relationship. I am not
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Derrick and I have found that it’s the little things, and the things we both enjoy that end up being the most romantic for us – like breakfast on a Wednesday morning sans children. Breakfast is by far my favorite meal of the day. I’ve been known to eat cereal, pancakes and eggs for dinner. Maybe because I’ve never really
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Our Company, Sweet Escape™ exhibited at a Bridal Show in New Jersey recently. I was reminded how young some couples are when they get married. There was the occasional older bride, but most of them looked to be in their mid to late 20’s. I just turned 40 a couple of weeks ago, and as I get older everyone looks
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Dawn: In advance of our first date night in quite some time, I asked Derrick to come up with something for us to do. The only parameters I gave him were that it couldn’t be dinner or the movies, since this is traditionally what we do on the rare instance we get away from the store and our children. I
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Romance is the pleasurable feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love. In the context of romantic love relationships, romance usually implies an expression of one’s love, or one’s deep emotional desires to connect with another person. Historically, the term “romance” originates with the medieval ideal of chivalry as set out in its Romance literature. This is the text book
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About 6 years ago, a year or so after we were married, my husband forwarded me an email he had received from a friend. The email had my husband’s personal message to me at the top and then the body of the email followed: It was a busy morning, approximately 8:30 am, when an elderly gentleman in his 80′s, arrived
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Derrick and I had planned a night out together, and it wasn’t anything creative or different, just a movie. We love watching movies together, and we generally have the same taste in movies, so it’s always a default for us. We had our store covered for the evening, but that morning our babysitter called and wasn’t feeling well, so she
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What’s your latest excuse for not being romantic? And ladies, I’m not just talking to the guys here. Do any of these sound familiar? • We don’t have time • We have children • I’m really busy at work right now • I’m too tired by the end of the day • We don’t have the money right now Most
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