Couple Things To Do (at home)

Dear1 and Dear2 have this ‘household notebook’ where we write all sorts of things that we discuss, including household finance, wedding plans, holiday plans, facial schedules, etc. While flipping through our household notebook just the other day, I came across this particular page entitled “Couple Things To Do”. :D

The list was made quite some time ago when we first moved in to our love nest. It was a list of things that we wanted to do now that we were free from our parents’ clutches and living together as a married couple. I’m quite sure all couples who had just moved in to their new home would have a similar to-do list. :P

Now with baby on the way, our twosome world becoming threesome, some of these things may not be achievable anymore. We’ll share our to-do list here and do a little review of it. Hope our readers dun find us a boring couple…

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1. Drink until high – Checked!

Yup, we did this one. On a normal Saturday night at home, we switched on the air-con in our study room, played music from our laptop, and chilled out over some drinks on our sofa bed. It’s quite fun actually, drinking at home, dancing to some techno beat late at night, not worrying about our safety or how to get home if we were at a club, and it’s cheaper too cos all our drinks were airport duty-free goods. Hehe… We did this quite a few times, the worst one resulting in Dear2 vomiting at the kitchen sink, I guess we were too high on alcohol. And after that, just wash up and go to bed. How convenient. :P

2. Invite frens over to play – Checked!

Yup, we often have friends over for gathering. Things we had done include steam boat dinners, pasta dinners, muffins, chicken wings, board game sessions, mahjong sessions, watching horror movies, pizza, potato chips, sleep overs, chit chats, Wiis, computer games. It was lots of fun having friends over and no watchful eyes from the older generation around. We can make as much noise as we wanted, limited only by our level of social graciousness. Fun, and we intend to keep this up.

3. Stay up overnight – Checked!

Hmm… We didn’t really stay up the entire night, but probably until 3am or so. Sometimes becos we were drinking, and sometimes becos we had friends over. And sometimes just the two of us chatting with each other, enjoying the late night together. And we don’t have to worry about parents popping in to ask why we had not gone to bed yet. Haha… By now, you should be able to see how happy we were (and still are) to escape from staying with our parents. Freedom, I tell you, freedom. :P

4. Late night supper – Checked!

We had supper, just that we didn’t go out for supper. We were rather lazy at night, and especially being smooth and clean after shower, we were just not keen on going outdoors again and getting all dirty and greasy again. So, we just have supper at home instead. Sometimes it’s just 2 packets of instant noodles at 2am. At other times, we steamed some siew-mai or bake some Taiwanese sausages. Yum yum.

5. *Ahem* couple things – Checked!

Don’t try to act innocent, I’m sure this item is on every couples’ minds once they moved in to their private love nest. :D Privacy is an important thing in couple life. It can be simple things such as wrapping ourselves with just a simple towel when we step out of the bathroom to… erm… other *ahem* couple things… You get the idea. Anywhere in the house. :P

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Looks like we did achieve all these things that we set out to do. For some things like drinking, we won’t be able to do anymore with baby around, but for others, we’ll continue. It is important that we do not revolve our lives around baby completely and neglect the needs of our partners. We should still keep the passion going and spend quality time with each other as a couple and as a family.

-Dear1

p.s. If you have ideas for couple things to do, pls drop us a comment! :D