Date Night

Two weeks before Christmas I realized my husband and I hadn’t been out together since we celebrated our anniversary in June. Granted, that celebration was a 5 day trip to Vegas and it was fabulous, but still…it had been 6 months! So, a last minute call to the babysitter was made and then we looked at each other and said “now what?”

You would think that when we get out so infrequently we would have a list of things we wanted to do and places we wanted to go when we finally had time and a sitter. That just doesn’t seem to be the case. So we tossed out some restaurant ideas. The first one we pulled in to was so busy we couldn’t even find a parking spot. So then we started rattling off some more places and finally settled on one that we hadn’t yet tried. When we were done with dinner we looked at the time and decided it was too early to go home, the kids weren’t even in bed yet! So we went for a standard of ours, going to Barnes and Noble and browsing through the store. I love book stores and can get lost for hours in one. However, I’ve decided it isn’t necessarily the best date night selection because we are usually in different parts of the store!

Ideally, we’d spend more nights like we did in Vegas. Strolling hand in hand, taking in the sites. We’d have a yummy dinner and go to a show. In fact, we went to a show every night we were there! We only live a little over an hour from New York but it just isn’t feasible to go into the city for a Broadway show too often.

When the kids were younger I had declared Saturday nights as our date nights. We’d usually rent a movie, I’d pick up a yummy dessert. To switch things up once in a while we’d play a game of scrabble. Somehow we got out of this routine and I’d like to bring it back. I’d like to try some new things though!

Here are some ideas I have so far:
For date nights in:
• Beer tasting: pick up a few different kinds of beer at the local liquor store and give them a try
• Wine tasting: same as above!
• Cheese tasting: along the same concept only here you will want to visit a cheese shop and ask for some tips.
• His choice: make him come up with something creative!

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