How to Get Your Husband to Ask You Out

10. Use your husband as a guinea pig for all your new cooking adventures. Try out every meal from "Deceptively Delicious" in the name of feeding your family nutritious vegetables.
9. Reveal to your husband what he has actually eaten all week.
8. Go to grocery store nine times in order to get all the new and trendy ingredients you need for your cooking adventures. The restaurant bill will pale by comparison.
7. In your restaurant search, look for one that he can later recommend or trash talk (even better) the next morning at the water cooler.
6. Practice eating with the correct silverware so your husband isn't totally embarrassed to be seen with you. Unless of course you went to MBA school where they actually teach this to you.
5. Promise not to ask for a doggie bag for most of your remaining food, or better, the extra cornbread just sitting neglected on your table.
4. Check the restaurant menu ahead of time, and email him the choices. Make sure there is at least one chicken dish. If not chicken fingers, at least chicken not served on the bone.
3. Do not let the gift certificate given by your in-laws and earmarked "dinner out" turn into diapers.
2. Walk around the house in your best "mom"* outfit. Maybe even put on some lip gloss. If he wonders why, be mysterious about it. He may think if he doesn't take you out, someone else will.
1. Make the reservation somewhere that requires 24 hour advance cancellation with your credit card. And accidentally forget to cancel them. Works every time.

In case you're wondering we went to the Farmhouse at Serenbe in Palmetto, GA. I had the scallops and Dan had the chicken (you only have two options from which to choose. Yes, I did call in advance to make sure chicken was one of them).

*My fall-back "mom" outfit consists of my target white sweater dress (which is the most complimented of anything I own), black leggings, and red shoes. I am lately obsessed with red shoes and even bought some for Karina.