Weekend update...

The weekend was fantastic. Alot happened. It is hard to keep track of and remember, but it was all very good and fun. Friday night; DH and I went to a friend's place for tea, that was lovely. The host cooked chickpea and tomato soup, very interesting flavour, but delicious. After this DH and went to another friend's place and played board games. M (DH) is very into board games and now he has gotten me into them. There are some fantastic board games out there - non mainstream of course. I will review some that I have played, later though.
Saturday, went to church like usual and that was great. Then we had an unusual fun experience. A married couple at our church invited us to their place for a meal to celebrate their 20th Anniversary - they wanted to "Pay it forward." There were around 10 other married couples around our age there also - from church so we knew them. On the table there was a list of questions about marriage, romance etc - conversation starters. It was interesting to hear other couples stories about their relationship, romance, and ideas about marriage. After this we watched a movie called Fireproof, a Christian movie about marriage. It was a reasonably good movie for a Christian movie, but a little over dramatised and cheesy in parts. It did get the message across though. The movie had in it a book called The Love Dare, which was used to enrich and work on the marriage in the movie. After the movie finished, the married couple celebrating their 20th anniversary challenged all the married couples there to take on the Love Dare and handed out Love Dare books to all couples who wanted to take on the challenge. Of course we took on the challenge. The book is a 40 day journey that couples take & read the book and make changes to improve their marriage. We are on day 3 and enjoying it. The first day: we had to try and practice patience, particularly trying not to say anything negative to each other. The second day: keep trying not to say anything negative to each other and do something unexpectedly kind for each other. The third day: still try not to say anything negative to each other and buy something for each other (a selfless gift). I am enjoying the journey of change in our marriage.
On Sunday I did a photoshoot of some lovely locations I found. I took over 300 photographs.
The weekend was relaxing and lovely.