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| FieldsofThyme |
Posted - Jan 10 2012 : 07:34:41 AM
We are back to trying "date night" again. Now, I don't mean we'll be going out to eat every time, and I don't mean the movies every time either.
Some times we just lock ourselves in our room, rent or get a free movie, take our dinner with us, and simply separate ourselves from the kids for one night. I loooove pasta for these nights.
In the summer, date night can typically start on the porch or patio - again no kids.
Don't get me wrong...I love the kids, but "date night" means my husband and I "dating" again.
If you do this too, what types of entertainment do you do? Other than the movie theater and out to eat.
I recently found out about a local winery that does wine tasting nights. I'm considering that too, but we are looking for more inexpensive ideas too.
We enjoy going out for coffee and browsing bookstores too. I'm looking into museums that have low entrance fees too.
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| Ladybek9756 |
Posted - Apr 14 2013 : 5:14:40 PM
My husband and I take turns planning our date time together. Some of the things I have done can get pretty crazy. We have no children at home so anything goes. Some of the things we have done, is he gets me up really early have the coffee made, a fire started in our backyard fire pit and we watch the sun come up and just sit and talk. One of the things I did for him was to create a tent in the house and made him a sheik for the night, complete with a picnic type meal all under an over head tent. I got the idea from the movie "The Holiday" where the daughters had a tent in their room. You would be amazed what ideas movies can spur in your imagination.
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| MrsRooster |
Posted - Feb 22 2013 : 1:39:18 PM
Erica, that sounds great. What ever works.
I enjoy the time driving my Rooster home from work at night because our daughter usually falls asleep in the back seat and we can talk just the two of us on the 30 minute or so drive home. Driving him to and from work gives us about an extra hour of time together that we wouldn't have if he was going to work himself. It sounds silly, but I like an extra hour with him a day. LOL
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| LeighErica |
Posted - Feb 22 2013 : 11:12:32 AM
DH and I only see each other on the weekends and holidays (its a military reason) so we don't normally go anywhere. Our favorite thing to do is build a fire in the fireplace, rent a movie and snuggle on the couch. We find fun in doing chores together, going for walks, to the grocery store...boring I know..but, in our defense...he is gone so much, the little things become the big meaningful things. We will have been married 21 yrs in May....its obviously working...hehehe..Erica;)
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| KatyDid |
Posted - Feb 22 2013 : 09:42:55 AM
I had some fun throwing a tennis ball back and forth with my hubby last night :) Of course, we were "technically" trying to entertain the dog, but it ended up being a game for us, that we tried to remember to include the dog in. It may sound weird, but playing more active games encourages conversation, and some teasing goes along with it! So that went on for a while, until DH started throwing fastballs into the hallway and a picture frame got in the way...I guess that's why we're told not to throw balls in the house!
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| lovecatsandsunshine |
Posted - Jan 31 2013 : 12:01:49 PM
After dealing with me being sick for so long, we have begun to have a date night. In the warmer months we go out to eat 1 Friday or Sat. a month and then after dinner we go to the park to walk, hold hands, and feed the ducks. Sometimes we will take a few hours on a Sat and take drive. I pack lunch and we stop somewhere along the way. Since we live way out in the country, no place close by to get all dressed up and go out ot eat. As far as a movie goes, can't do it, I can't sit up that long and popcorn smell makes me nausous. More date night ideas, yes please. :)
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| Erin Rock |
Posted - Jan 29 2013 : 06:29:58 AM
It may sound crazy but my husband and I go to the shooting range near our house for an hour or so. We have so much fun and can congratulate each other when we do well. We just got a shot gun so when it warms up we will be going skeet shooting. It may be weird to some but we love it.
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| MrsRooster |
Posted - Jan 10 2013 : 2:55:12 PM
I have posted this before, but I think it is a good one.
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| FieldsofThyme |
Posted - Jan 10 2013 : 06:37:47 AM
It looks like we may be doing more "at home" vacations this year. Thanks for all the good ideas.
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| buggysmum |
Posted - Apr 13 2012 : 05:44:22 AM
These are such good ideas. Thank you. |
| Naked on a Mountain Top |
Posted - Apr 11 2012 : 08:13:14 AM
My DH & I arrange for our son to go spend the night at a friends house once in awhile (we offer the same service for the other family). That way we have our house to ourselves for a more romantic night.  I have also found that recycling my "old lingery" still seems new to my hubby. No offense, but he's not real good at remembering if I wore pink lace or red frills last month.
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| country_lovin |
Posted - Apr 07 2012 : 6:35:06 PM
My husband and I have been married 20 years. Since our eldest was 12 we started having a date night each week. sometimes we go to the river,a drive to the mountains. SOmetimes we get an ice cream cone. The most important thing is it's just us, no kids. I love my kids BUT they are growing up and eventually will be gone..Then it will be just my hubby and I. My opinion is a date night is very important to a marriage. |
| SpyChicken |
Posted - Mar 27 2012 : 07:49:27 AM
"Fancy" date night for us is dinner and a movie, but we also have a lot of little informal "dates." Every year, we make a "date" to go Christmas shopping just the two of us & then dinner afterwards, etc. but mostly we just kinda buzz around town doing errands or getting a bag of delicious popcorn from the old-fashioned popcorn stand (summers only as we are WI!!). This summer will be our 25th anniv. so we are going to Niagara Falls-it will be our first trip anywhere without the kids, so that is a HUGE date night for us! LOL |
| FieldsofThyme |
Posted - Mar 26 2012 : 3:10:21 PM
Already planning another weekend.....had so much fun, not to mention peace and quiet.
I just have to save up again (he he he!)
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| rough start farmgirl |
Posted - Mar 25 2012 : 8:57:04 PM
Just remember that one of the most important things is that you want to keep having dates. Pretty much everything will work out from there.
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| FARMALLChick |
Posted - Mar 22 2012 : 12:40:31 PM
We've been married almost 19 years (sometimes seems like 100!) Anytime we can do something together, we jump at it. Even if its just going to the grocery. Having a special needs child hasn't made it easy. Now that he's getting older, he spends more time by himself.
Great ideas, thanks for sharing them.
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| FieldsofThyme |
Posted - Mar 22 2012 : 11:42:49 AM
We are getting the chance to "get away" this weekend. It's not the "mystery" trip, but will let you know when I figure it out.
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| lisalisa |
Posted - Feb 07 2012 : 08:08:59 AM
Oh, ladies, I have enjoyed reading all of your ideas! I have a husband that doesn't really like to go out at all! (why didn't I see that before?) However, we have tickets to a college basketball game for Saturday - I can't wait! |
| Ruby V |
Posted - Feb 06 2012 : 5:33:18 PM
Before my hubby retired, I did a 'surprise kidnap' for him. I made reservations at a nice hotel in a town 75 miles away, secretly packed our bags, then I picked him up at work that Friday and just started driving out of town {laughing}. He was like - what's going on? and he was very pleased to find out that I was 'kidnapping' him. It was a great time.
Now he's retired and we do almost everything together and feel like we're on a date alot of the time {laughing}. We never dated before we got married, as we met online, so all our 'dating' was chatting on the net {laughing}.
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| Bayou Girl |
Posted - Feb 06 2012 : 07:39:46 AM
You ladies have great ideas. My husband and I rarely have time for just us, but when we do. We may sit by the fire pit in the backyard and talk, go for a walk in the state park near our house, watch a movie together at home, and bowling is another favorite. In warmer weather, we may just ride back roads. I like to go fishing, but it's not my hubby's favorite, so he indulges me, sometimes.
~Jennifer~
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| FieldsofThyme |
Posted - Jan 20 2012 : 04:53:54 AM
Oh my gosh, I haven't been bowling for several years.
I love all your ideas!
I'm still trying to figure out what to do for our mystery road trip.
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| MagnoliaWhisper |
Posted - Jan 19 2012 : 11:19:49 PM
I just seen bowling brought up in another forum, that's also been a fun "date" for my husband and I. Not too expensive, but more connecting then a movie. I like movies don't get me wrong, I just don't see them as connecting time. Mini golf, bowling, stuff like that is "fun" and connecting in my opinion. Movies you don't get to really talk or "know" each other doing. So I like more active dates like the golf/bowling, we can talk and have a ton of fun. I also just love to drive around to no where, but with the gas prices today we can't do that any more. I miss that. I remember even as a kid sometimes my mom would get "antsy" and just want to do something, so even late at night we would all get in the car and just drive around aimlessly, and then usually end up at some river spot where we would proceed to get out of the car, and go look at the river the moon and all of that. I liked it and it relieved stress for my mom. I think it would do me good as well and I miss it, but again with gas prices today it's not been something we could afford to do any more. :( However, we were going on at least one cross country trip a year and we/I always had a lot of fun chatting him up during that time. And sharing music and comedians and such that we liked. Especially so much he had never been exposed to before.
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| Terre |
Posted - Jan 19 2012 : 8:57:43 PM
I have really enjoyed reading all your sharing. My hubby and I use to have really consistent date nights when our kids were growing up. Sounds like something we should bring back and actually call it a date night again. We were so consistent with our date night and actually calling it just that, that I'll never forget a funny conversation while driving the kindergarten car pool. My son asked if tonight was the night to go out for my date. I saw in my rearview mirror one of the neighborhood kids eyes get absolutely huge as he asked my son, your mom goes out on dates? My son replied thinking nothing of it, yes. The other boy was even more shocked and said, and your Dad is going to let her? I thought about having some fun with that and see how long that would take to make the neighborhood grapevine, but then thought that I should nip it in the bud, so told him that I was going on my date with dad. :) Still makes me laugh after all these years. :)
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| MagnoliaWhisper |
Posted - Jan 18 2012 : 6:28:02 PM
My husband loves mini golf, we have done it more then once for our "dates". (funny thing is we NEVER dated! So we don't really know what to do on "dates". We met each other, and married 2 days later! lol haha That was almost 12 years ago! lol).
We have seen the glow in the dark indoor course, he liked it a lot, I was only so so with it. I like being outside. We went mini golfing to a outdoor night time course twice now. And I loved them! Even if one was too new and hadn't put out enough lights and we kept losing our halls in the shrubs/water, and couldn't see to find them! lol haha But, I would say that is one of my DH's favorite "date" things to do. I like it too, it was one of the things I was always good at when I was little. And no matter what my health is I have been able to do it!
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| GirlwithHook |
Posted - Jan 18 2012 : 08:04:05 AM
One of our favorite things to do is walk to the store holding hands, pick up ingredients for a special meal, walk back home (harder to hold hands when they are full of bags though), cook dinner together, and then watch a free/inexpensive movie or one of our DVDs. We used to order Chinese take-out, but the last time we did that we both got sick...no matter, I'd rather cook something fun anyway!
Our living room overlooks a lake, so when the weather is nice we like to walk along the shore and picnic at a little park. On *really* nice days, we'll walk up the street to a period-recreation garden and wander the paths for a while.
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| City Chick |
Posted - Jan 18 2012 : 05:01:32 AM
I can't wait to hear what you have planned for your "mystery road trip!" Sounds like fun.
My dh is working odd hours a few days this week. Went in at 6am and staying until 8am. then going back this evening. We'll have a couple of days to ourselves without the kids around. He's taking me to an Italian grocery store in the city we've been wanting to go to.
This weekend we'll be kid-free. We have some restaurant gift cards we're going to use. I'd like to extend our date by doing something else. Not sure what our budget will allow for.
Maybe the "glow in the dark" mini golf I saw yesterday at the mall. I was with my girls and said "wouldn't that be fun?" Neither one of them was excited but they replied "That's what Dad said when he brought us to the mall at Christmas!" Perhaps a date night!
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