SHARING FAVORITES

So today my husband and I got to spend some time together, just us. We went Mini-golfing, haha! I know that sounds lame to some, but if it wasn't for mini-golf we might never have gotten married. Now you may be wondering how mini-golf leads to marriage, well it doesn't exactly. However after a few weeks of hanging out as just "friends", we went to play a shared favorite activity: mini-golf. There we made a bet that the winner had to take the loser to dinner anywhere they wanted. Well I lost, and my "friend" chose to have dinner at a really nice and fancy place neither of us had been too but both had heard about. It was at this dinner that my "friend" proposed, no not that proposal, but he did ask if I would like to date. I promptly felt queasy with shock, my dreams don't usually come true so I was unprepared for something I had secretly been wishing for to be something he had been wishing for also! Within two weeks of dating we decided to get married and voila! All thanks to a round of mini-golf.
Our round of mini-golf today didn't lead to any grand results, at least thus far, but we did have fun. And I have to say my putting skills have improved, just call me Happy. Sadly I lost, but not by much. My DH kindly says that I beat him on the front 9, while he won the back 9, but overall I still lost. He is sweet for trying to make me feel better about it though.
We don't share all the same favorites, in fact our absolute favorite pastimes couldn't be more different. His: mountain biking and hiking/camping. Mine: scrapbooking and shopping. But we make an effort to support each other. He will help me find the perfect sticker at the scrapbook store and I will strap on a Camelback for a hike up a mountain. And we have found many things we enjoy together: bowling, mini-golf, reading, music etc. Tonight though, as the day was winding down and the baby was sleeping, I was emailing, DH was going through some papers while "Friends" was on tv we had a fun little epiphany.

DH:"You know I never thought 'Friends' was that funny until I married you?"
Me:"Of course it's funny."
DH:"Yes it is, but I only watched it once or twice before I was married to you and now it's one of my favorites"
Me:"Yeah, I knew who Jack Johnson was but I didn't listen to him before I married you and now he is one of my favorites. Being married is great."
DH:"Yeah, sharing favorites is good."

So I guess what I am trying to say is that sharing favorites with your honey is a fun perk of marriage. Whether it's the favorites you both enjoy like bowling, the favorites you endure because you love your honey like sleeping in a tent, or the favorites you introduce and then share with your honey like the beauty of a little song called "Banana Pancakes". I look forward to many more years of sharing favorites with my husband and hopefully we will share some with our little guy too.