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Across the Fence:  Date night?  |
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gramadinah
True Blue Farmgirl
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Diana
Orofino
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USA
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 Posted - Dec 08 2011 : 4:28:23 PM
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What do you do for date night? We really need some new ideas. Movies, dinner, window shopping all a little old. Cheap and Cheerful please I need some new ideas.
Diana
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Blessed in Colorado
True Blue Farmgirl
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Debbie L.
Oregon
USA
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
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Posted - Dec 08 2011 : 5:01:19 PM
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Play a board game, like monopoly or checkers. Or, bake brownies together. If you want to get outside of the house, maybe go bowling. In our town there is Christmas lights downtown. We enjoy strolling and looking. Usually other friends are there viewing the sights also. Have a cup of hot chocolate and enjoy conversation.
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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gramadinah
True Blue Farmgirl
3557 Posts
Diana
Orofino
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USA
3557 Posts |
Posted - Dec 08 2011 : 8:25:30 PM
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Debbie I love to go for drives but as he is a long haul truck driver he really see's no need to drive around. Marly he hates to play games and neither one of us needs brownies. These are great ideas and would love him to do these things but it would make it so simple. I guess the problem is me too I really want to do something out of the house and as he is gone all the time and just wants to be home.
Thanks for the ideas.
Diana
Farmgirl Sister #273 |
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FarmDream
True Blue Farmgirl
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Julie
TX
USA
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Posted - Dec 08 2011 : 10:40:02 PM
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I will throw something wild out there. Is there any charity you can agree to volunteer for together? It doesn't have to be often. I know one family that is doing this instead of exchanging gifts and they are all excited about it. There's something about working together as a team that can bring you closer. There's pet shelters, libraries, hospitals, meals on wheels, mobile loaves and fishes, and the food bank to name a few.
You could also try a class together to learn a new skill. Some of these are only a few hours long. Places like Lowe's and Home Depot give free classes for different projects. It doesn't mean you need to actually do those projects at home, but sometimes it's just interesting to find out how to do something. There's also nature walking courses, bird watching, cooking, dancing, and geocaching (this combines nature walking with a GPS and treasure hunting.
What about sports? Tennis, golf, frisbee golf, hunting, horseback riding, bicycling, hiking, or kayaking.
I could go on and on. I've learned that it's not always easy going along with someone else's idea of fun, but if I want to spend time with them then I have to make the effort. This goes for the guy, too. I know my DH isn't really interested in holding my purse while I look at clothes. He knows later on we'll be doing something he likes. It's a compromise.
~FarmDream is Farmgirl Sister #3069
Live Today, Cherish Yesterday, Dream Tomorrow
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gramadinah
True Blue Farmgirl
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Diana
Orofino
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Posted - Dec 09 2011 : 07:18:04 AM
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Good ideas I will check into some of these.
diana
Farmgirl Sister #273 |
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natesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
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angela
martinsville
indiana
USA
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Posted - Dec 09 2011 : 07:35:26 AM
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Our favorite date is to find some new festival or fair to go to. We love international festivals such as greek, italian, and scottish. We also like to go to more 'educational' type things.
We have more fun takin the kids to places like Conner's Prairie, a colonial set up, and Fair Oaks Farms, a dairy farm that has tours and birthing barns and a learning center.
We try to find things that wouldn't normally be considered a 'date' per say. It seems to be more relaxed and less stressed. We even have left the girls with grandma and just went shopping together for the household stuff or went to look at stores for our hobby's, garden centers, hunting stores, and beading shops.
We even spent a whole day yard saling and thrift store hopping once without the kids for our 'us time'!!
Farmgirl Sister #1438
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
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Posted - Dec 10 2011 : 07:59:30 AM
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Oh!!! but Diana....you have to read CJ's "Christmas Cookie Rules...:)" post. Follow those rules and you and your hubby can eat all the brownies y'all want to. LOL. Enjoy!
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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queenmushroom
True Blue Farmgirl
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Lorena
Centerville
Me
USA
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Posted - Dec 11 2011 : 5:22:34 PM
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Date nite??? Date nite??? What's that??? LOL We do go out, but not alot. It's generally tied in with other things going on seeing that we live 1000 miles from no where.
Lorie
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Annika
True Blue Farmgirl
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Annika
USA
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Posted - Dec 11 2011 : 5:49:57 PM
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I usually do the asking out and arranging. Drew is too busy to come up with things to do, so I find the destination, even if it's a movie in our living room. Next week, we are going out for coffee and sweets, hugging ankles and listing to a good jazz singer =) There has to be a good balance of doing the familiar with doing the unexpected. We fall into ruts, everyone who has been together for any length of time does. But keeping it fresh also has to involve being up front about things that you absolutely don't find enjoyable. I used to make a baked Brie sort of light and classy dinner, until after years of me doing it, he finally mentioned that he never liked baked Brie.
I've got a thing going between the two of us that we make a note of things that we discover that sounds interesting and we share our discoveries and try to do some from each others list as time and money allow. My idea of spending a year slowly traveling around the European Mediterranean is still on the list, but not about to happen anytime soon 
Annika
Farmgirl & sister #13
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~Leonardo DaVinci
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Annab
True Blue Farmgirl
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Anna
Seagrove
NC
USA
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Posted - Dec 12 2011 : 03:40:50 AM
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This time of year??
Select a more upscale part of town and go see all the pretty Christmas lights. Then go find a coffee shop somewhere or bookstore to sip said coffee and find a good book. Makes an evening fly.
Or research ethnic food and try something different in a big city somewhere that has a nice restaurant |
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bizemom
Farmgirl in Training
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Dawn
Oberlin
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Dec 20 2011 : 06:40:43 AM
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We love to go to wineries. Even tho he isn't into wine that much it's the atmosphere. We started just going out locally but have since expanded our horizons & are now going to take a trip on a wine tour!!! Sometimes we will take a deck of cards, a book or just chat. It's really nice & he is even beginning to enjoy the taste of wine. Some of the other places we have gone is to a little mom & pop bar & order some wings & a drink & will watch a game or something on tv I didn't really enjoy this at 1st but he LOVES football, nascar, basketball & I have learned alot about it too & it is just fun to be doing something together! We go out on a date night every Sat. so we both look forward to spending some alone time together & sometimes we do meet up with friends but regardless we know Sat. night is our night:)
Proud mama to 2 AMAZING kiddos & wife to a WONDERFUL man!! |
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Date night?
