Marriage - Dancing With My Father https://dancingwithmyfather.net/category/loving-people/marriage-family/ recipes, devotional thoughts, and musings Wed, 31 May 2017 02:07:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 63980330 date night! {paper mill play house, millburn, nj} https://dancingwithmyfather.net/date-night-paper-mill-play-house-millburn-nj/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=date-night-paper-mill-play-house-millburn-nj https://dancingwithmyfather.net/date-night-paper-mill-play-house-millburn-nj/#respond Wed, 21 Oct 2015 08:07:55 +0000 http://dancingwithmyfather.net/?p=2124 Although people usually laugh when we tell them (because he can seem like such a serious guy at times), my husband once had a job performing on a show-boat.  He also served as co-president of the high school show choir (alongside his also-musical sister), and he can still slide across a stage and hit a spine-tingling bass note while singing a favorite southern gospel number from his growing-up years.  And me, well I was a proud theatre-turned-communication major in college myself, and I still get teary-eyed at live performances of almost any kind.  There’s something so amazing about watching people onstage connect with their audience, as they do what they’ve been so amazingly gifted to do in the world of theatre.  So when I was offered the opportunity to attend a broadway-style show at the Paper Mill Playouse in Millburn, NJ, i jumped on it, and we made a date night of the event!  Dressed to-the-nines in my cute date-night-boots, my still-got-it-hubby and I headed this weekend to see the bandstand at Paper Mill Playhouse.   Selfie-ing it up.  😉     We’ve still got it.  But speaking of having it…     Since we moved to new jersey, we’ve fallen in love with the combination […]

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]]> https://dancingwithmyfather.net/date-night-paper-mill-play-house-millburn-nj/feed/ 0 2124 Making Love in the Kitchen. {thoughts on marriage} https://dancingwithmyfather.net/making-love-in-the-kitchen-thoughts-on-marriage/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=making-love-in-the-kitchen-thoughts-on-marriage https://dancingwithmyfather.net/making-love-in-the-kitchen-thoughts-on-marriage/#comments Wed, 04 Dec 2013 08:26:00 +0000 http://dancingwithmyfather.net/?p=461 Years in, I still get nervous he’ll think I’m goofy.  Or not pretty.  Or too bossy.  Or not organized enough.  Like he’s surprised I’m those things, or I’m not.  Sometimes I still have to get brave to ask him, “kiss me! yes, now!”  and he looks at me askance when the camera’s on but he does it.   He’s got to wonder sometimes why his Papa wished the crazy lady on him, but he’s steady and stays in the fray and when I wonder how to keep going I watch him put his head down and keep going and even if he can’t say the words, I hear and tell myself too,  “I think I can”.   Sometimes life takes away the funny and I forget what laughter sounds like and he reminds me when he hands it out like a little surprise gift wrapped just for getting-through.     Sometimes I forget romance and Papa hands me kale salad and kitchen kisses and some kids going “eeeeew” and one capturing the moments on camera and savoring the good things she hopes she’ll take away.  And we savor them too.     He’s got the Servant’s heart and my inner dialogue may criticize him for not being […]

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