By Mike Gervais
Date Night
As always, the subscription company provides a Spotify playlist of themed tunes to set the mood for the evening, and an instruction card to guide us through the evening.
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s a newly engaged couple starting our lives together during a pandemic, Kat and I are determined to keep having fun together and never forget to embrace the joys of dating. Subscribing to a mail-order date in a box service was one idea we had to ensure we could continue to find creative date ideas and ensure we have fun one-on-one time together despite COVID-19 restrictions. Our January date box delivered in a big way, giving us an opportunity to come up with fun date ideas for an entire calendar year. To kick off our date night, we opened the subscription box and took an inventory of what was in store. We found a dream candle, two keepsake books, a snack of gourmet popcorn, a decorative 2021 calendar and a sticker book with ideas for creative dates. As always, the subscription company provides a Spotify playlist of themed tunes to set the mood for the evening, and
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an instruction card to guide us through the evening. First, we were instructed to talk about our goals and dreams for the coming year and light the dream candle. We had snuck a look at the calendar and sticker book as we unpacked the box, and agreed that our goal for the year would be to stick to the plan we were about to make and be sure to do each one of the dates we were being asked to plan, no matter how busy our schedules get, or what the coming year throws at us.
It may sound like we were shooting from the hip on our goal, but a lot of the date ideas provided for the calendar were unique and simply sounded too fun to pass up. Before we got to the calendar, we were directed to take some time together to talk about some of the things we love most about each other. For this activity, the service sent us both a keepsake book that gave us 50 prompts to write about the things we love about each other. The book works as a fill in the blanks template. And it was a fun example of our differences and our similarities. For example, when the prompt says, “I wish I had known you when …” I was at a total loss. I’ve “known” Kat since we were in high school, though we didn’t grow close until recent years. So my response reflected that. She, on the other hand, wrote a heartfelt note reflecting on times in her life when she would have