My husband and I started a new date night tradition this week. We've never been good about having dates with the logistics of a large, young family. Instead of having a weekly date night out, we decided to start having a weekly date night in.
After we get the kids in bed (hopefully a bit early) I set up a card table in our bedroom and put a table cloth on it and a candle and got a dessert. This week we had banana splits (except with banana chunks) in our fancy ice cream dishes. We have this question book for married couples that has a lot of different questions to ask each other and talk about. This week's question was to list 5 (or more) milestones in your married life. It was interesting reminiscing about previous years and the things that have happened!
It was a little tricky getting the kids down to bed and all. My oldest son tends to stay up later and read out near us so I told him he needed to read out there by himself. Also my 6yo dd wants us near her when she goes to bed so I needed to try to get her to let us be a little farther away in our bedroom (really not very far away from her at all). So it was a test in patience as it took a while to get them settled, but hopefully wtih consistency it will go better and we'll get more time together!
Anyways, it was a neat way to have some extra special time together and hopefully we'll find ways to make our dates in creative and fun!
Going out is often to expensive for us. We have had hard financial times for most of our marriage.
We will set up a candlelight dinner in the dining room, make nicer food to eat, and use wine glasses and our good dishes. We put on nicer clothes and play classical music. Sometimes he will ask me to dance.
We don't do this every Friday like some people do. But we try to go out (or date-in) once a month.
• Sun 15 Jul 2007 - Untitled Comment
Going out is often to expensive for us. We have had hard financial times for most of our marriage.
We will set up a candlelight dinner in the dining room, make nicer food to eat, and use wine glasses and our good dishes. We put on nicer clothes and play classical music. Sometimes he will ask me to dance.
We don't do this every Friday like some people do. But we try to go out (or date-in) once a month.