Date Night At Home

It is always nice to get out of the house when you have small children and reconnect as a couple by having a meaningful conversation over dinner, or enjoying a movie, or going on a double date and again actually having a conversation that lasts more then 2 minutes with your friends, but as well all know we cannot do that every weekend. At least not us. It gets pretty expensive and to have to pay a sitter it makes it that much more expensive so I have come up with an at home date night that my husband and I enjoy a lot. We are movie people and at the end of the day we just like to sit and veg in front of the t.v. and watch a show that does not take too much thinking effort! We Netflix a lot of series that we watch during the week but on the weekend we usually will watch a movie. Usually Saturday nights we purposefully cook ourselves dinner after the kids go to bed. Our kids go to bed at 7 and 7:45 usually so we can have dinner about 8 or 8:15p.m. We will make one of our dinners in which we like to enjoy and not scarf down on a regular night while both our kids are talking loudly, screaming, or the like. We will then get ourselves a yummy cocktail to go with our meal and we will sit on the couch in our pajamas and start our movie. We often pause the movie to either A) get another drink and or B) chat about our day or something about the movie. I love this night because it is a time to relax after a long week and reconnect with my husband and I can do it in my pjs! Sure we are eating late but we usually have an "appetizer" with our kids when they are eating dinner. Most of the time eating with our kids is super rushed and never relaxing and I rarely get to enjoy my food. There are days during the week we will eat late because we got home late or whatever the case may be and I enjoy those nights too but there is something about the weekend that makes it more pleasant. Maybe because my husband doesn't have to work the next day or we stay up later, even though we shouldn't because our kids still get up early but we do anyhow. So if you want to have a little "get away" with your spouse, and you can or do put your kids to bed by 8p.m. then cook a yummy meal-do all the prep work ahead of time to save you time and pick a simple yet good dish to make. You don't need candles and all of that unless you really want to, but just a good old movie and your pajamas snuggled up on the couch with your spouse should do the trick.