In your home and homeschool

 

Happy Friday!

In recent weeks, I talked about the importance of a regular date night. Another part of keeping your relationship healthy with your spouse is to have a regular time away from the house and the children. If you can arrange one or two nights away once or twice a year, it will give you and your spouse time to connect and talk without the distractions you have at home.

If your budget is limited, you can look for inexpensive ways to get away. Your investment in your relationship is worth it. If you have to serve simple meals and save some money for a night away, then do it. If you get a tax refund back in the spring, earmark part of it for a weekend away. Spending a weekend at home without the kids will lead to doing projects. The purpose of this time alone is for you both to relax and enjoy one another, so I want you to strive for getting out of town alone with your spouse.

Being homeschool parents is a lot of work. It takes a lot of time and sacrifice. This is one reason why you need to have this time away to let the stress go. This is a time for you both to have fun as a couple. This is a time for you to remember why you got married in the first place. This is a time to keep the fires burning. One day you will wake up, and all of your children will be grown and moving on with their lives. You will be a couple once again. Date night and weekends away will help you have time to nurture your relationship as husband and wife. You don’t want to realize that you don’t really know each other after the children are grown.

Your Zone Mission today is to declutter the dining room.

Your Home Blessing for today is to empty all of the trash, sweep, and mop.

My menu plan for Friday is dinner out with my husband. The boys will be having BBQ with my mom.

Have a wonderful weekend!