what do u talk about at dinner?

What do you talk about with your spouse when you get a chance for just the two of you to be alone and talk? When our kids were first born, any chance we got for a date night alone, we laughed because all we talked about was them :) Its that new parent syndrome, nothing else in the world exists except your baby :)

However, this weekend when we went on our first date night in many many months, I realized that my husband and I always talk about the same thing when we get a chance to be alone, whether it be at a restaurant or driving together on a long trip in the car.
What do we talk about, you ask.
Is it life? no
The weather? no
Health? no
Something romantic (we ARE on a date, ya know!) nooo...
we talk about...(wait for it....)

Business.
And Business opportunities.

Isn't that crazy? How romantic is that? Not much I guess, at least not in the standard sense of the word. But in our world, its part of what makes us tick. Whenever we are alone we talk about how the businesses are doing. What needs to be worked on, improved upon, or changed. What the horizon is looking like. And what plans my brilliant, entreprenurial husband has in mind for the future. I always wind up shaking my head in amazement and sometimes overwhelm-ment (not a real word), because his plans are always so big that they often scare the risk-averse nature of my being. But I have complete faith in him knowing that God is leading him, and he and I are both listening for direction. Then, the conversation almost always go back to our beginnings :) and we talk about how we started and how we never could have imagined all the things God has placed in our path. I love these times because they are the basis of us. We loved each other before either of us had a 'pot to p--- in', and we still love each other. I like the fact that we grew in this together. Its part of our story. Part of us. Its part of what makes us who we are as a couple. We have history together. And...
it always makes me smile remembering those early days.

So in most people's mind, talking about business on a date night probably isn't considered romantic, but to us... it is :)