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What do you do on date night?

Do you and your husband have a regular date night?

Dan and I do, but dinner and a movie can get old ... What are your creative ideas for spending fun time together?

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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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Permalink Reply by Mary Brazeau on August 6, 2009 at 6:58pm

We found if we called it date night is was! Even just hanging out after they went to bed.

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Sutton on August 6, 2009 at 1:01pm

My husband and I usually go to dinner and a movie too, but we always pick a new restaurant. Sometimes instead of going to a movie we go to the mall or go shopping for things that we've been meaning to get, but that are difficult to get when we have both of the children. We also go to cruise-ins to see all of the old cars.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Szewczak on August 6, 2009 at 2:09pm

I presume that a husband can answer here as well. My wife Nancy and I are struggling with finding a way to DO a date night. We are empty nesters and never got into the practice in the 30+ years we had kids at home. I will read with a lot of anticipation so I can get my head into this wonderful togetherness activity.

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Permalink Reply by Adrienne P on August 16, 2010 at 9:31pm

Flip flop the dinner-and-a-movie; we use coupons to see a cheap matinee and then grab a bite to eat afterwards. This has really improved our dates since we have a rule: no talking about the kids or work during dates. For a little while, we would just sit there; we didn't know what to talk about!

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Permalink Reply by Karen Murphy Corr on August 7, 2009 at 12:35am

It's been fun reading through everyone's ideas. We're on a tight budget right now and just moved to a new city - so no friends here yet to swap childcare with. Where we lived the last eight years we would swap childcare with another couple or a single mum we knew. We'd take her daughter overnight when she worked the night shift and she'd then watch our brood for us another night so we could go out (usually for dessert - not a full meal - and we splurged and went to see Slumdog Millionaire in the spring).

Our date nights are usually a pint and a DVD or we sit on the back deck and enjoy a pint and talk as we watch night fall. One night after we moved I convinced my husband to let me soak and scrub and massage his feet (he dislikes feet - LOL) - like a man's pedicure really. He loved it and was so relaxed! Now I just have to teach him to give *me* a pedicure!!

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Permalink Reply by Kathy Aabram on August 7, 2009 at 12:05pm

Yes, we regularly go out together without the kids. Always once a month. Usually 2-3 times a month.

Tomorrow my DH & I are going rock climbing at an indoor facility. Other times we've gone to hear live music or hear a speaker. I think this fall we're going to take a one night cooking class or perhaps a class to learn more about wine. We also have talked about taking an exercise class together - like a spin class or a Bikram Yoga class (yoga in a 105 degree room!), but we haven't yet.

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Permalink Reply by Mary Bennett on August 14, 2010 at 4:50pm

We only have a "dinner date" date night on our anniversary. Our date nights consist of shopping at WalMart alone and then having a soda and sharing a bag of Combos. Or taking an evening walk through the neighborhood together, no kids.

Mary
http://marynate.blogspot.com/2010/08/attack-of-malware.html

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Permalink Reply by SueMagoo on August 17, 2010 at 12:33pm

I am blessed to have a husband who actually puts"Plan date night" on his Outlook calendar so it pops up on the first of each month. Most times it's dinner out, but one time (and I HAVE to do this again) I made a pizza for the boys and sent them to the family room to watch a movie and cooked a gourmet dinner for my husband. I got out the "good" tablecloth and dishes, candles and our wedding wine glasses. It was a "cheap" date night but sure didn't feel that way! The boys enjoyed it too because they could eat in front of the tv which never happens in our house. The only time our sons came in the room for the hour was when our 8 year old sat down at the piano to play a romantic song and made us dance to it!