Weekend

Well if you saw the update i put on my twitter (right side of page) the marriage preparation course was a bust! we didn't get anything out of it at all. Pretty much a lot of what they said or asked us to discuss with our future spouse was stuff (if you have been together more than a day) already know about each other. For example : " If you couldn't have children would you adopt?" Grant and i have already discussed this many times. am i just over prepared and already talked to him about it?!?!? are we a crazy couple that talks about our future?!?! another thing was they talked a lot about sex, and not as you would think, i thought being catholic and the faith to abstain from sex that is what they would indulge us on. but oh no they didn't bring up the fact to wait until marriage or anything. they said sex is good and intimacy is good. you need to set time aside for it all the time. now to me that seemed a little odd. i thought they would explain the reasons to wait, the choices stuff like that. Then they said do "natural family planning" but didn't explain it at all! just said take a class to learn how to figure out your cycle and don't have sex during that time! um...okay!? Also i feel that the course was not organized at all. they had 3 couples that talked about the 8 tasks of a successful marriage, YET when they would be discussing things they would look at each other and say, "you never told me that" EXAMPLE: one couples convo: Wife " make sure when you fight you fight fair, and don't say things you will regret."
Husband " yeah that is a good thing to remember"
Wife " I remember one time during a fight i said "i Hate you" and it really hurt me the next day after i said it and i will never forget how you felt"
Husband " i don't remember that at all, really i have no clue what you are talking about!"
Wife " oh really i was really torn up about it"
Husband with flabbergasted look "ha ha?"
Now if that was such a traumatic experience for her, wouldn't that be something they had talked about and made each other feel better about? maybe it is just me and the other couple at our table but we were very confused! honestly if i went into the course thinking about marriage and debating whether or not to get married this thing would not have helped at all! also we paid $75 for this course for breakfast and lunch and the course ( 9-4). The lunch was not good. all they had was green beans, a scoop of diced potatoes and some weird noodles, then a dry chicken breast. oh and cheese cake for dessert. now the cheese cake was amazing, i can't say that for anything else! i just feel this was a poor example of a preparation course...it didn't prepare us for anything!

So i pose this question to anyone who reads this blog... first timers or avid readers
What advice do you give to Grant and I, or any newlyweds in general?

Remember we have been together for almost 8 years so we know almost all there is to know about each other!
Other than that we had a good weekend, came home and babysat our nieces for a couple of hours. then got up early Sunday to go to the game store to pick up Grant's pre-order Rock Band 2 game. the little things that amuse him! he was like a kid on Christmas morning!

So to all that read...what do you think?