It is time once again for the A to Z Blogging Challenge Theme Reveal! For those of you who haven’t traveled through the alphabet with me before, this is your chance. Beginning Friday April 1 and ending Saturday April 30 (with the exception of Sundays) I, along with hundreds of other bloggers, will be filling the universe (well internet) with our own takes on what the letters A to Z can mean.
This will be my 7th year and my themes so far have been music, scrapbooking concerts (twice), the A to Z of Michaels Arts and Crafts store, scrapbooking in general and last year I did the A to Z of San Francisco. I was struggling to come up with an idea for this year. While I love doing the scrapbooking of my concerts, I wasn’t sure I could get another alphabet’s worth of different artists and even if I could stretch it using song titles, I knew I didn’t have the time to scrapbook 26 more shows before April. I haven’t been driving to San Francisco routinely and I think I pretty much got all of the main sites last year anyway. I’m not working outside the house (yet) so I have no interesting stores to take you through. What’s a girl to do? Google it of course!
So I Googled “A to Z” and several possibilities came up but the one I settled on is “The A to Z of Dating.” Even though the hubby and I have been married for 37 years (38 in May), I still believe in date nights. When we first got married, before the kids came along, I told him that it was important to me that we not lose sight of why we got together in the first place. Of course with the kids and life circumstances (work, health issues, lack of funds, a pandemic – you get the idea) it was not always easy to get some time to ourselves and there were many years when dating just wasn’t happening.
But, with this A to Z challenge I’m going to try and show some things that you can do for a date night that don’t necessarily cost much money or take a lot of time. I’ll be going through our old photos to relive some of those early dates (which could be a date in itself!) and hopefully we can go on a couple of new experiences that I can write about during the month ahead. I’m looking forward to exploring this topic and hope that you’ll enjoy it too. Got any ideas for those tricky months like Q, X, Y, Z? Will you be doing the A to Z this year?
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That is so sweet, looking forward to these happy posts!
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Hi Miss Andi – Thanks. Let’s hope I can pull it off!
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Congratulations on the many years of marriage. I’m also sixtyish and single again so I will follow your A to Z with an eye to learning something.
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Hi Kalpana – I hope I can give you some ideas. I’ll be honest, I would not want to have to start with a new relationship at this time in my life. I’m too set in my ways and it takes too long to train a new guy – LOL
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What a fun theme. Congrats on your long marriage! May it continue for many decades more.
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Thanks Dena!
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Well this sounds interesting. Can’t wait
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Thanks Jeanne. Crossing fingers I can pull it all together!
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I love your idea so much I plan a post on my blog on my life in the 70’s with my husband. It’s a great idea for the April A to Z. Darn if only it came to me in mind. I’ll write mine much later. I’ll def give you a shout out for the idea snd a link
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That’s so nice of you. I look forward to reading yours!
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What a great idea!
This is one of the most fun ideas I’ve seen on the challenge!
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Thanks! I hope I can carry it off.
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This is just a great idea!
Can’t wait to read your posts!
I will be participating too, just going finalizing a couple of things before my theme reveal.
For the hard letters- maybe pick of common/random words and see if you have any dates or great memories associated to it? Like a Waterfall, frozen Yoghurt?
Good luck with that!
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Thanks! Good suggestions.
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This is an awesome theme! Good luck on those problem letters!
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Thanks Lisa. I think I’ll need it.
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Janet,
Date nights are important even for seasoned couples as us. When our kids were young, we didn’t have the luxury of dropping them off with the parents so date nights were out but we managed to find a way to make things work so to not loose sight of the other. Now that we’re empty nesters, every day can be date night if we want. 🙂 Your theme sounds like a lot of fun and I can’t read to see what you come up with each day. Best of luck to you in the A2Z challenge, my dear!
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Thanks, Cathy! Crossing fingers I can pull it all together!
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Is saying Quickie too much? Of course then my mind leaps to X rated fun, so that might not be the track you want….
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Well, I had thought of using X in some manner so quickie isn’t that far off – LOL. I just have to be careful because I didn’t list my blog in the sensitive category 🙂
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😉
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A great idea. Ally has come up with two good ideas. I don’t suppose you could do X-rated. Y could be younger days
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Yeah, I’m toying with some of those ideas. Thanks Derrick
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As to ideas for X & Y – how about something on eXes? and proposing/saying Yes?
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Oh, those are good ideas!
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Janet, what fun 🙂 I hope WordPress decides to let me post without sending me to Spam jail before April or you’ll be picking me out daily! I’m planning on doing A-Z this year with a new coaching site on the topic of being relationship ready. Well, I will if I get the site ready in time. I’m too late for the theme reveal sadly, but one has to get these things right, am I right? 😉
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You did get sent to my spam folder but I rescued you! Not too late for theme reveal! Go for it.
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Oh this is a super cute idea Janet! I’m glad that you are going to be doing it! I can’t wait to see what ideas you come up with!
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Thanks T. Are you going to do it this year too?
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I’m not sure yet….but leaning towards probably not lol
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Sounds like great fun! Looking forward to seeing what you do with it.
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Thanks John! Really came down to the wire on this one.
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I look forward to your A to Z posts. I haven’t done it in a couple of years and since I am still struggling to get my current book written, will skip it once again.
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I totally get that. Truthfully I don’t know if I should spend the time on it either but, you know, FOMO if I don’t – LOL.
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Following you through A to Z is going to be fun. I could use some date night ideas. Thanks for sharing. See you April 1.
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Hope I can do it justice! Thanks for stopping by.
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I discovered your blog last year during the A to Z challenge. I enjoyed it so much since my kids live in Berkeley and I learned about fun things to do up there.
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I am glad to see that you hung around even when I wasn’t posting the A to Z!
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I enjoy your blog!
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Thanks so much. I enjoy yours as well.
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I’m looking forward to reading it. Good luck!
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Thanks Liam!
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Cute idea. Q could be quiet times together. Z could be visiting the zoo. As for X & Y… good luck.
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Yeah, I thought of the zoo, especially since we have one so close. Quiet times is a good one, thanks.
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What a fun theme Janet – I look forward to your posts. And to see what you come up for those tricky letters.
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Thanks Deborah. Let’s hope I can do it justice.
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