OT:Do you and your spouse date?

[mjantz]

We don't have a 'standing date night' but if our parents are in town or we're visiting them we try & catch a movie. We also try & get away for a weekend or up to a week at least once a year. I love my children but I've found it makes us better parents when we can get away & be a married couple every once in awhile instead of just Mom & Dad.

 

[ilovejack02]

We dont really have a standing date night, but have always really felt that alone time was very very important.

My parents have a VERY active social life so ive never been able to count on them, but they do babysit with LOTS of notice. LOL i warn them of weekends away MONTHS in advance and have already given them a schedule of LSU games we want to attend for the season.

We get away about 3 times a year and get to spend a day on the river.. minus kids about four times in the summer.

I also have great friends and we all swap up for nights out and when we all want to have a night on the town together, we will all pool our resources and pay a sitter to watch all the kiddos, needless to say she is paid VERY well.
I will say im very lucky, DH works swing shift so we have lots of time during the week that DS is at school and DH and I can hang alone since I am a SAHM.
We do enjoy our time alone and love a fun night out of dress up ..etc. We alway find a way to make it happen.

I cant wait till next summer, my little one will be heading to my inlaws in Alabama for two weeks and while we will miss him like crazy... Its gonna be FUN time for Mommy and Daddy ; )!

We have a 19 yr old and I have finally realized how important it is for us to stay connected because they grow up and leave the nest so fast and if you havent stayed connected as a couple once they are gone you have NOTHING !

 

[disney_momma21]

We have a weekly date night. Sometimes it's just DH and I off to a quite dinner or other times it's a weekend away at the beach or casino. Sometimes we go with a big group of friends and other times it's just us two. My parents and DH's parents love having our son over so it works out great for us.

For us, we love having alone time to reconnect with one another without any interuptions. It's great to take time off from everyday living to remind us how we really are just a couple of kids in love and how no matter what happens in life, we will always have each other.

 

[happymommy]

You better believe we have date nights. Its the only thing that keeps me sane.

I like to spend time wih my DH and have conversations without the kids prying and over hearing something we may not want them to hear. I love my kids, but feel that it is DH's and my time to reconnect as a couple also. Which IMOP is very important.

We also try and go away by ourselves once a year. My mom is close and retired, so she watches the kids, which I know I am very lucky to have because most people don't have that luxury.

We haven't been away alone for about 1 1/2 yrs because we built a house last year, but during our WDW trip in October , we are putting the kids in the Sandcastle club for a night and doing the F&W festival alone.

And 2 days ago he surprised me and booked a trip to St. Lucia for just him and I for March of next year. We've been married 18 years but have been together since high school. Guess he's not all that bad.

OOOH! Nice husband! I hope you have a great time! We did that last year - 5 nights away at Peter Island. It was so wonderful! Don't know if we'll get to do it again (I had hired a good friend to stay with the kids, as my parents for some reason won't and in-laws won't either not that my kids are that young or anything and I would do it for my grandkids).

That sound so nice!

 

[christa112]

Not as often as we should.

We have been lucky we have never had to pay for a sitter. Either my mom or my MIL will watch the kids. We had last Saturday night to ourselves and we went to dinner. My DH wanted to go to the movies, but there was nothing playing that either of us wanted to see.

 

[Rylee]

We have "date night" twice a month, but with rules...

We take turns planning "date night." The person doing the planning must...

choose a place or activity the other would enjoy,
make all reservations,
arrange for a sitter, etc.

My husband is wonderful at this... he has surprised me with tickets to concerts (and we have completely different taste in music) taken me to "chick-flick's" and even took me to revisit a place from my childhood that I always talked about.

Sometimes he likes to surprise me, and one time he left "clues" all over the house, (a note in the fridge, a word carved in a bar of hand soap, playing a certain song over and over, etc.) to give me hints about where we were going.

Of course, some dates are bigger or better than others, and sometimes we decide together, what we'll do for our next date.