What do you do on date night?

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Permalink Reply by Michelle Reitemeyer on May 28, 2009 at 8:03am

Make it a date afternoon and go to a museum.

Go window shopping.

Go to the park and hike around a lake or through the woods or through pretty gardens.

Play tennis.

Go for a bike ride.

Go dancing.

Take a cooking class or photography class or cake decorating class together.

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Permalink Reply by Michelle Ouellette on May 28, 2009 at 1:58pm

Because our kiddos are still pretty little, we sometimes find ourselves staying home and doing an "At Home Date Night". We love playing games, so get some snacks together and play several hands of cribbage, Skip-Bo, or Yahtzee. It's great because it gives a chance to talk to each other as well as be with each other.

When we are able to get a babysitter, we love to go to the bookstore. One, it gives us a chance to really browse the books without little ones distracting us. And two, we can meet up in the cafe and enjoy a coffee with each other as we look over our finds!

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Permalink Reply by Kate Wicker on May 28, 2009 at 5:33pm

Watch a Netflix selection and sip on a glass of wine.

Workout together.

Go to a coffee shop.

Play cards or a board game.

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Permalink Reply by Hallie Lord on May 28, 2009 at 8:11pm

Usually we get take-out and rent a movie but in the summer we will occasionally fill up the kids' inflatable pool, slip on our bathing suits and sit under the stars sipping cool beverages (usually of the alcoholic variety). It sounds a little silly but it's fun, inexpensive, and a great way to spend some quiet time together catching up without having to get a babysitter.

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Permalink Reply by Theresa Mitchell on June 16, 2009 at 11:23pm

With a serious lack of babysitters, Nathan and I either do as others have suggested already and watch a movie and spend time together after the kids go to sleep or we leave 1 or 2 kids with friends or a visiting grandparent and we'll go to church or a store with just one child (usually the most manageable of the 3 :) We pay better attention during Mass and we can hear each other talk. It's really like a mini-vacation just to gather our thoughts and have a quiet discussion before the often dizzying chaos of our 3 strong small personalities resume vying for our attention.

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Permalink Reply by Lynn Altomari on June 17, 2009 at 7:38am

What is date night :)

On Saturday we usually watch what has been DVR'd during the week (my husband works 2nd shift and I would from 7:30 until 1). If we have nothing on the DVR we will play Scrabble or just sit around.

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Permalink Reply by Dianna Wormsley on June 17, 2009 at 12:15pm

We haven't had a regular date night in a while, but they do happen sometimes! We like to try new restaurants and then inevitably we go shopping. It sounds very unromantic, but we love going to stores without little distractions. And then we can talk about house projects and make sure we're on the same page with things.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Szewczak on July 4, 2009 at 11:38am

I need to set up a regular date night with my wife. I know I get so focused on all the stuff going on that I admit that I find myself counting on her always being there. Bad! Double Bad! My most important person needs to know how I love her and us as a married couple. I feel like this is a confession of sorts and my penance should be to schedule them...get them on the books, make time to to connect with her. So I am accountable to all of you. Peace and all good!

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Permalink Reply by Karen on June 17, 2009 at 11:06pm

We don't do a date night, but we do go to Flyer's games together, that's usually a lot of fun. We like to get to the venue about an hour before the game starts so we can grab something to eat and then we people watch. People watching in Philadelphia can be quite amusing.
Occasionally we get my parents to watch the girls and we'll go out to lunch or dinner on a weekend. I'm not a huge fan of going to the movies. I'm a cheapskate and would rather wait for the movie to come out on DVD so I can watch it in the comfort of my own home over and over vs. spending a lot on one viewing in an uncomfortable theatre.
Going to see a play is something we've done a few times that is fun. And before kids, we used to go to the art museum frequently. We used to go to the zoo a lot more before we had kids, too. If you live near a beach (we did when we were dating) it's nice to just go for a walk along the shore line.
Now I feel like we're a boring old married couple since I just came up with all those fun ideas that we haven't done in ages. I'm going to have to get a babysitter now so I can go on a date with my dh.

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Permalink Reply by Therese Royals on June 17, 2009 at 11:18pm

Steve and I like to go out for a coffee. I t is cheap and quicker than dinner and a movie. We also just go for a walk or do some shopping together.

We make sure we get out without the children at least once a week. It is easy to do that though since we have 3 older children that we can leave in charge and I always have my mobile phone with me if they need anything.

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Permalink Reply by Leticia Velasquez on June 18, 2009 at 6:39pm

The surest way to get my husband to go to a romantic hideaway, is grab the fishing rods!
We have a secret fishing spot down the river where the girls haven't found us, yet. . .

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Permalink Reply by Tima on July 4, 2009 at 8:58am

A date night...sounds nice. We haven't had one in awhile. We usually spend time together after the boys are in bed, we talk, watch a movie, play games. Sometimes when we go for a walk as a family, while the boys, are riding their scooters ahead of us, we walk and hold hands and chat.

I should add though, once every few months we run marriage prep courses, and we need to arrange sitters for the boys, and we usually plan a date night ( eat out or go for a coffee afterwards) since we already have a sitter set up.

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