Every year I struggle with should we celebrate Valentine’s day or not. I get very rational when I think of all the commercial reasons not to. On the other hand being a girl who was without boyfriend for my first oh 25 Valentine’s days it’s hard me for not to want to.

I guess I’ve made a compromise with myself. While we won’t be putting any ridiculous expectations on each other of what the day should be we are taking a little bit of time to have fun and appreciate each other. It’s so easy to forget this sometimes in our everyday lives and endless to do lists.

So this year my plan is this. We both get to choose a part of the meal (I have the main course), decide what ingredients are needed, and write a series of clues for each item. Then we’ll be heading to the store and using our clues the other made for us and shopping for all the “items” on the list. I wrote 4 clues for each item with the 4th clue being a sort of bonus and a little bit more telling. There can be no cheating and we can’t ask the other if we are right. If everything goes as planned we will make our meal once we get home and have a quiet night in. I’m sort of hoping one of us chooses the wrong item because it could be pretty funny. I don’t want to give away too much right now but I’ll share everything tomorrow.

I think this would be such a fun date idea! If it goes well we might have to use this one again.