Charlene Chavez  We have been married going on 21 years now. We have two boys, ages 20 and 16, and we have two date nights twice a month. One with the boys and the other alone. It's a chance to teach our boys etiquette away from our own table and we get to catch up with all of our crazy lives. I also wanted to comment on the hand written letter. These days everything is eWritten. What happened to the good 'ole fashioned motions of writing a hand written letter. Kudos to you Matt! Off to post about hand written letters on my blog.  Mar 16, 2009 ~ 9:26pm

Danielle Thompson  Love the flowers and handwritten note.... All the women readers are collectively swooning right now!!  Mar 16, 2009 ~ 4:57pm

Ardis  I can't stop laughing at that last shot!! You guys certainly off to a good start though! Keep it up, Keep it up, Keep it up!!  Mar 16, 2009 ~ 11:15am

Shelley Rankin  I am glad to hear you are taking this very smart approach to your marriage. We try and spend time together and we have snuck off during the morning to downhill ski when kids are in school and had a wonderful time. But we need to do it more and with kids it does get hard. We also made a pack to always thank each other for doing things around the house. I will thank him for making the beds each morning and he thanks me when I do things like the dishes or vacuum. We equally share the chores and I love him for that. Enjoy each precious day.  Mar 16, 2009 ~ 7:18am

kendra  You're a smart one, Matt! Make Kylie feels like a queen and learns how to feed you a 5 star meal every night at the same time. Sure beats the burned breadsticks I served Shawn every night for the first year we were married! You guys are off to a wonderful start. Such a joy to be able to read about it!  Mar 16, 2009 ~ 6:33am

Ginnie  One word. AMEN! (make that an enthusiastic amen) I couldn't agree more with you. preventative maintenance couldn't be a more correct way to put it.  Mar 16, 2009 ~ 12:18am

Sharon Manning  My husband and I have been married for 20 years this year and have 2 teenage children. On Saturday night we went out on a date - whilst we don't do this once a month, well we do try and make the effort. We talked non-stop from the time we left home to the time we got home. Very refreshing!  Mar 16, 2009 ~ 12:04am

Chung Nguyen  That's really sweet. (: I agree that a lot of people don't put in the effort and then wonder what happened to their relationship. It's a lot of work to keep things fresh and new.  Mar 15, 2009 ~ 11:54pm