Oh, how I love date nights.
If you have kids you probably know that date night means one or more of the following:
a chance to have a quiet meal, relax and eat slowly
a little break from the nightly routine of dinner, baths, story time, bottle, pacifier, and cute little jammies. Cute little jammies are my favorite part right after a kiss and a hug.
a chance to watch a movie before 9-10 pm
an opportunity to meet friends without kids running around asking to play with you
a chance to focus on your partner for a change and give him/her some love and affection
a chance to complete a sentence or a thought without being interrupted every second
but mostly, it’s means an evening without a constant buzz and hum in your head
If you don’t have kids, I don’t mean to discourage you. Not at all. You should definitely go ahead and have a few of your own… After all, kids are cute, aren’t they? Oh, you just wait and see.
OK, we’ll see how they turn out as teenagers. Pretty scary stuff, ha?! It’s a good thing that kids grow slowwwly. Who would have kids if they were born at teen age?
So anyway, twice a months we get a babysitter to watch over the kids and we go out. We put date night down in the calendar!!! Because we must have some couplehood time and it’s so easy to forget. Will you believe it if I tell you that some days my husband and I barely exchange more than 3 complete sentences with each other?
Going out on a date can turn out be an expensive treat when you’re talking about dinner + $$ for babysitter + (sometimes) paid parking, so it better be good! Luckily, we had a few very good dinners lately (did you see there’s a new reviews page?) like when we went to Ray’s Boathouse, Palace Kitchen, and last Saturday it was Poppy.
Ohhh, Poppy. I’ll review it sometime soon, but meanwhile you can check out their web site and take my word for it – it is good! Very good!
I just wanted to share that with you.
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6 Comments
zerrin
March 31st, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Your children are so cute. We’ve been talking about having children as young couples these days and I’m always thinking about the things you complained above. I think I’m not altruistic enough to change all directions of my life and all sharings with my husband for having little, cute things. But I must admit that I always admire mothers.
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Natasha - 5 Star Foodie
March 31st, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Your kids are adorable! We don’t get to do regular date nights unfortunately with my husband’s busy travels when he is here, he likes to spend one or two evenings at home
But we do date weekends 3-4 times a year (lucky to have grandma and grandpa in the area) – an occasional getaway is really nice!
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unconfidentialcook
March 31st, 2009 at 10:03 pm
We don’t have many date nights–we wait until Emma goes off to a sleepover. We just went out for Asian Fusion, though, and it reminds us that we should make more of a point of date night. Your kids are so sweet!
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Diana
April 2nd, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Monday is our “us” day, no matter how busy we are we make sure we have dedicated connecting time. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a special date, but it’s time away from everyone else focusing on each other. We hope that by making that weekly us time a habit, it’ll be a little easier to implement with kids. Maybe we just have to live close to relatives for cheap babysitting!
Sweta
April 3rd, 2009 at 1:48 pm
I have a two year old-so I know that a “Date Night” would feel like!!
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Pozole Blanco
April 8th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
I have 2 nephews that lived here when they were 3 and 5 and trust me, I know what you mean. Now that they moved, I kind of miss them.
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