Halloween Movie Night

Last night I pulled out our air mattresses from the closet and set up our den for a prime movie-watching night.

T loves Halloween—like, loves it, but I have always refused to watch Halloween movies with him until now. And it’s only because our friends are into Halloween movies, too, so it gave us some quality time together.

We ate really good Chinese food. We sat and talked. And then somehow I actually made it through The Thing and Friday the 13th. 

It was honestly the most awesome thing we’ve done in a while. I think as an adult I feel this pressure to do fancy dinners or fancy things, but sometimes the best fun you can have doesn’t require much. It's not always something you find being aesthetically celebrated on Instagram.

This was fun. This was memorable. And I feel so priviliged to have a husband and some really special friends that are open to this kind of unphotogenic, but nonetheless awesome funness.

Thankful

Things I'm thankful for:

• T&N and their friendship. T and I have so enjoyed getting to know them and spending quality time playing games—of all things for me, isn't that crazy?—and it's been so much fun.

• Visiting a new church today. I'm not sure this is where we'll end up going, but it was a good visit. T enjoyed it and has a friend there. I enjoyed the music and the atmosphere. Not sure about the message, but we're going to visit again and I'll be interested to see what the next one is like.

• A new little dresser my parents are letting us "borrow" until we don't want it anymore. T said no at first, but now that it's in place, he likes it. We've placed the lamp on it and it adds warmth to the room in a great way and there's no glare on the TV anymore. It has the lamp, a white tray, my favorite candle ever—Tobacco and Vanilla—a fake plant on a couple of books. I like it a lot. I'll have to take a picture of it!