How do you celebrate?

This coming Saturday my husband and I will have been drug and alcohol free for 5 years, as well as married 9 months to the day. When we would celebrate occasions like this before surgery, we would go out for a large, extravagant dinner. Now we are both kind of at a loss as to how to celebrate. Suggestions anyone?

 Healthy dinner and a movie
Game night with friends
Couples Massage
Overnight trip centered around time together and not food
Something nice you wanted to buy for the house

Thats what I can come up with for the moment...I'm sure others will come up with more.  It's a change for sure not making food the vocal point of celebrations.  We're learning that at my house, too.  It's a good change!

Thanks for the suggestions!
It's a continuous learning process over here.

Hi Elise

Congratulations on all the anniversaries you will celebrate next Saturday! 

Trying to find non-food-centric ways of celebrating is hard when that's been how we usually do such things.  But I do have a few ideas:

A couples massage                                                     A couples spa day

A get-away weekend to a B & B                                 A day together biking, hiking, sight-seeing in 
                                                                                         a new city/village near you -- or your own city

A PERFECT picnic -- okay, that's                              A concert                                                              
food centered, but with the BEST of foods you
enjoy -- maybe some caviar?  Oysters?
perfect strawberries, a nice brie or gouda,
a few low carb crackers, perfect grapes, etc.

Spend a day together -- alone -- doing whatever
you desire -- yep, even THAT all day LOL

A flight to Venice with a gondola ride......oh wait, that's MINE LOL

Seriously, I think it's great that you have so many positives to celebrate.  You might not like any of my ideas, but maybe they will trigger some ideas of your own.

I so happy for you..................ENJOY whatever you decide to do!

Ree 

Thanks for the suggestions, Ree!
Ahh I wouldn't mind a flight to Venice and a gondola ride

Being drug and alcohol free for 5 YEARS sounds amazing.  I shall go out on a limb and say BEFORE those 5 years when you celebrated it involved those things?  If so you found new ways to celebrate, go out, enjoy life.

Now comes the time when you'll find NEW ways to celebrate without food or not cetralized around food.  How about a walk on the beach at dusk.  Are you into walking yet?  Maybe a 5K?  How about a hike?

Ms Shell

Thanks so much Ms. Shell!
Yes, before we got sober celebrating often involved those things. Dependent on my knee and the weather, we are planning on doing something outside with walking involved. We are both really into history, and we live in a good city for historical sites!

how about going out dancing, going for a nature walk, go to the beach, go to craft show, a car show, amusement park, go camping, take a day trip to somewhere you both love to go, do a romantic recreation of how you met, visit the places where you first met or went on your first date, stay home and have a nice candle lit healthy dinner, go through old photos and reminice about the good times.  buy some nice new clothes with sexy lingere and plan a lovely romantic night together... 

Thanks for the suggestions! I think ending the night with a candle lit healthy dinner will have to be incorporated somehow

Thank you all so much for the suggestions. I've been having some knee troubles for the past few days, so I was worried I wouldn't be able to do too much that involved physical activity (it's pretty swollen, but I'm icing it and going to ask the doc about it tomorrow).
I think what we're going to do is go for something historical during the day (we were thinking of maybe the JKF museum, or driving down to Plimoth Plantation), and then topping it off with a healthy dinner 
Thanks everybody!