My wife and I just had our first night out without the baby since he was born a year ago. We had planned on doing something and my sister watched our baby all night this past Saturday. The problem was when we finally had a whole evening alone we couldn't find anything to do. We got all dressed up and went out to a nice restaurant for dinner but after that we were pretty much lost. We couldn't decide on what to do so we went for the old easy thing to go to a movie, but when we got there it was closed and it looked like the power had went out or something. We were going to go bowling but were both dressed up and didn't want to try to bowl in those clothes. We finally decided on getting a movie and coming home. When we got home we realized the time had changed and it was an hour later then we thought, so we just went to bed instead of even watching the movie. We did have a great time though talking about everything. It was nice to have an evening alone without the baby for once. She kept wanting to call and check on him and after the first time I told her not to call again because he might be asleep. It was hard on both of us because the restaurant we went to had a ton of babies our child's age all over the place and we kept talking about him. I was just wanting to see if anybody had any ideas on what we can do when we get another evening alone together. Not to say we didn't have a good time, it was great, we are just always looking for something to do that we haven't done and we hardly ever get a chance, so when we finally did get a chance we couldn't think of anything.
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Momzilla
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My husband and I had the same problem! When we have a night out, we usually go out to dinner or to a movie, or we might go to dinner and then go to a bookstore or something like that--something that is generally tough to do with the kids along. Or, we'll go to a party that a friend is having.
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Depending on the size of town you live in, you could go dancing, or to a restaurant like Dave and Buster's (imagine a Chuckee Cheese for adults), If you go out earlier in the day maybe a museum--history, art, science center, whatever-- (holding hands while walking through a museum is romantic), Check out the local college's events many have free or cheap concerts and plays and such by the students. How about an after dinner walk ending at an ice cream stand or coffee shop for dessert? You could pack a picnic and go to a park or college campus and have a candle lit dinner there (hopefully no mosquitos...) Hope this helps.
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We just had our first weekend without either of our babies... but they were born 13 and 11 years ago!
lol!
It was like being in my 20's again!
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You don't realize how much your lives have really changed until that first 'date' without the baby. My hubby and I try to go on a date at least once a month, but it doesn't always work out. And when we do go, we usually end up going to eat, then seeing a movie that we can't see with the kids, then going to the mall or a bookstore (my kids LOVE the bookstore, but I can't leave them alone).
LOL, before kids, we were party animals compared to now. We'd go to a pool hall and shoot a couple of games, have a drink or two, go out dancing until the wee hours of the morning, then find a romantic spot to "park" for awhile. LOL, now, we're home by midnight at the very latest. Oh well, things change, I guess.
Love, Heather
LOL, before kids, we were party animals compared to now. We'd go to a pool hall and shoot a couple of games, have a drink or two, go out dancing until the wee hours of the morning, then find a romantic spot to "park" for awhile. LOL, now, we're home by midnight at the very latest. Oh well, things change, I guess.
Love, Heather
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we did make plans to go to an aquarium thing where we live but it was closed, then we thought we'd go to the museum and it was also closed, they both closed at 6:00pm on a saturday! We thought about Dave and Buster's but for some reason decided to go for the movie which as I said had some sort of power outage. We've been to D and B's a couple times and played that Mech warrior game where you get into a little pod and shoot each other's big robot, we liked that one, (the first time we played, we said we wouldn't shoot one another so at the start I walked my tank around and found hers, then she takes off running at me so I started shooting her, she bumped into me and I thought she was shooting me so after wards she asked me if I saw her robot run up to me and I say yeah and she said she was giving me a hug, then I felt bad because she didn't realize I was shooting her, but they give you a print out of what all happened and when she read that the first thing that happened was I shot some part of her tank off she whacked me in the head, we cracked up about it, so the next time we played I thought she'd be out for revenge so I shot her as soon as I saw her but she just ran off, she whacked me again when we were done. It was a blast)
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JillLars
It's a Boy! Jace David- Due 1/20/07
There's already lots of good suggestions here, but I will try to offer a few more ideas
Mini-golf
Laser tag (this is really fun, sounds kind of like what you did at D and B's)
Get a nice hotel room (jacuzzi suites at Holiday Inn are usually around 100 dollars per night)
My advice would be to do fun things that you can't do with the kids, like bowling, or some of the other things mentioned. Movies are fun, but they can get old after a while (I know)
Mini-golf
Laser tag (this is really fun, sounds kind of like what you did at D and B's)
Get a nice hotel room (jacuzzi suites at Holiday Inn are usually around 100 dollars per night)
My advice would be to do fun things that you can't do with the kids, like bowling, or some of the other things mentioned. Movies are fun, but they can get old after a while (I know)
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plus with the movie you don't really get time together, you're both watching a movie not conversing or anything really. Just in the dark focused on the screen and not each other. Thanks for all the good ideas, I'm thinking a suprise picnic this weekend, by candlelight to make it more romantic, hopefully it won't rain.
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My wife, E-beth and I have been married for almost 3 years now and still have yet to get a night out for just us 2. I admit that it gets kinda hard to do when you can't find a sitter and when you do finally get that one night out, You are totally lost on what to do. The last time we went out was a Carman concert in Lancaster, We both enjoyed it immensely, and had dinner afterwards, But , she was still pregnant and worn out quickly, So it was a short night. Fun evening, But, not as long as either of us really wanted.
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