Movie Inspired At-Home Date

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Don't forget your green! (If you're going anywhere, that is. Or if you live with pinching pranksters.)

When I sat down last year to craft some ideas for at-home dates, I had absolutely no idea that we'd be pushed TO stay home for so long here in 2020. I guess I was trendy ahead of my time! Ryan and I enjoyed one of our at-home dates this past weekend, even though we weren't on a full-fledged lockdown just yet.

This date was movie-inspired! I picked 50 First Dates, because I hoped it would inspire Indiana to develop some tropical temperatures. The morning after our date, we woke up to this, do I don't think it worked. (Just hazarding a guess.)

But let's not jump ahead to the snow!

When we got home from work on Friday, it was almost 70 degrees in our sunroom, so we spent a little while out there, soaking up the Hawaiian-esque rays.

Anyone catch Braeya's shameless bathing in that last picture? Sigh.

I looked up some Hawaiian scents on Pinterest and filled up the diffuser with a combo that promised to make the house smell like the islands. Since I've never been to Hawaii, I have no idea if the result was accurate, but we did enjoy our diffusing! (It's orange, grapefruit, and sandalwood, in case you can't see.)

Dinner cooked in the slow-cooker all day, so that added to the delightful aroma! I made Dashing Dish's Hawaiian Chicken Sliders, except we skipped the bread. And I made this Hawaiian Fruit Salad, which was also quite delicious. (I added bagged salad that we needed to use up.)

And then we hunkered down to watch the movie and drink some coffee!

* Fun fact: when I asked Ryan to check to see if we had free rental access to the movie, he said, "What? 54 States?" HA HA!!! Try 50 First Dates!

If you're not a fan of this date or Hawaiian themed food, you can adapt this to fit one of your favorite movies! Just draw from the setting or script to pick out your food. (We could have done waffles with this one, since that's what Lucy eats in the restaurant every day.)

By the way, if you need some more at-home date ideas, here are the ones we've done so far this year: an indoor picnic, the root beer taste test, a copycat recipe date, and the salsa-themed date! And this one, of course. And if you're a parent suddenly at home with all the kids and no idea of how to fill the days, all of these could easily be modified into family fun days!