Italian Picnic "Under the Stars"

 Happy Hump Day loves!!

On the C & C post last week I mentioned that I had done

LEGIT, one of my BEST at home date nights.......EVER!!!

So if you are new to this space

I absolutely LOVE at home dates!!!!

To me it's so much more intimate.

You can talk, you can HEAR each other talk,

no mask required and honestly it's just good QUALITY time together.

Let's face it.

Here is a typical "regular" date night:

Out to dinner

Have a few cocktails

Someone is on their phone 

(or maybe you are lucky and neither of you are)

It's loud in the restaurant

You can't really focus because people watching is at an all time

effing HIGH. (hey I'm not judging..I LOVE peep watching)

Oh look you are done eating and drinking.

"What do you want to do now?"

"Oh, I don't know, You?"

"I don't know."

"Ok, let's just go home."

Get home, jammies on, face washed, date OVER.

FACE PALM

Like WTF!!!???

That gets a HUGE fuck NO!!

Now before you go giving me the excuse I have a baby, I have 

little kids, I have big kids...STOP right there!

Guess what, I had babies, I had little kids, and now I have a teenager!

I have done at home date nights forever they just have

gotten much more over the top because

I have someone who appreciates all my effort 

and thinks outside of the box as much as me!!!

Honestly, you don't have to go as elaborate as the one I'm blogging about today.

It could be as simple as cook a dinner together, turn on music, light some candles, phones away, dance in the kitchen, have great conversation and end with some amazing sex.

However there ARE some details that do need to happen.

Don't start rolling your eyes because I see you and I hear you.

Get dressed up.

Put the fucking makeup on.

Do the hair.

If you are a lash girl...put the lashes on.

For the love of god, put the fucking heels on!!!!

I can already see the faces I am getting.

LOL

It takes effort to keep a relationship alive. 

Do NOT become roommates, do NOT get so comfortable you no longer get pretty.

Do NOT coexist.

Don't even try to tell me that you didn't get all dolled up in the beginning!!!

I would call you a flat out lying whore! 

(whore is said as a term of endearment so don't bother getting sensitive)

Ok I'll get off my soap box! 

If you need more at home date inspiration...there are others on this blog!!

For this date I decided I wanted to create an Italian Picnic "Under the Stars" 

complete with an "outdoor black and white Italian movie".

I set the scene by layering the floor with blankets

(my bony ass needed some padding)

All around the perimeter of the area I put out some of our beautiful greenery from the wedding.

(our decor may have been the best money we spent because I have

been using the hell out of it!)

I draped twinkle light along the back wall and had random

twinkle light bottles around. (to emulate the stars...hellloooo)

There was a menu board that featured the picnic food and the feature film.

I used our real picnic basket and had it packed as if we were not able to walk into our

kitchen and get whatever we needed.

It went perfect!

The whole night was AMAZING!

He was soooo surprised.

We both LOVED the movie we watched.

It was just a perfect date night.

And we never left our home.

We were decked out, but I had my shoes off because

I am a lady at a picnic.

So there ya go.

The set up and take down did NOT take long.

It was sooooo worth it.

All of the pics I am posting are crappy cell phone pictures

so I apologize for that!!! 

But it gives you the idea of how it looked!!!

Again, you don't have to go to this extreme, but I promise you

if you start dating at home you will LOVE it.

So stop sitting there scrolling your feed and start planning something 

for this weekend.

Let me know what you end up coming up with!!!

I will be back on Thursday with C & C!!

Have a fabulous day!!!