Any ideas how to get a quiet night with my husband?

Christy - posted on 07/01/2010

get a babysitter :)

Jackie - posted on 06/22/2010

What I tend to do is, on a day where we both know isnt hectic get ahold of my babysitter and her take him for a few hours and me and my husband relax for a little while round the house doing nothing.

Melissa - posted on 06/21/2010

I wish I knew!

Lindie - posted on 06/21/2010

When my parent come to visit I try to arrange that they stay for atleast 2 nights. On the first night they stay home and baby sit and hubby and i get to go out overnight. When we come home we pick up a delicious feast on the way to thank them and enjoy the second night together as a family.

Alicia - posted on 06/20/2010

An idea that we have found to be awesome is this:
Find 3 other families with children (church, school, work, etc) who would like to have a date night once a week. So, say Thursday nights are the date night...each family will take turns watching all the kids on Thursday and 3 times per month you will have free babysitting! Most people will be very willing to watch the kids that one night when they will get THREE nights of a sitter. The kids have a blast too. They get to play with other children every week! :-) This is SUCH an important topic! Thanks for bringing it up Amy! Sometimes, as moms we get so wrapped up in the lives of our children that we "forget" about hubby! Then, when the kids are gone and grown up we are left with a stranger. But! If we spend one night a week with him, and try really hard not to talk about the kids during that time, we will be continually strengthening that relationship and we will be so thankful for that in 18 years! Thanks again!

Britney - posted on 06/20/2010

set up a night to have a sitter and plan a nice relaxing date or something with your hubby .if you dont have any one to watch ur baby wait until he goes to sleep and pop in a movie and some pop corn and just relax up a lil late that night

Cynthia - posted on 06/19/2010

I agree with most of the other moms. However, make sure your kids will fall asleep faster after a long day w/o a nap. My kids sometimes would have trouble falling asleep because they were over tired. My want to try this first before making any special plans.

Sherrie - posted on 06/18/2010

Please let me know if you find out how to have a quiet night with our husbands! I never can either...ugghhh. And don't have any good babysitters only family. And 1 of my bff but works at night. So good luck on your endever, for i am waiting to see your responses...lol.Thanks, Sher

Lori - posted on 06/17/2010

Hi Amy...isnt that what Grandparents are for...lol. Children and Grandies love to spend time together...So go for it...Have a night off All the best :)

Brittney - posted on 06/16/2010

You can also check out your local ymca I know they take the kids for 2 hour periods, at least here they do. I thought about it with my kids just to get a chance to go shoping since my husband is overseas. Typically when he was home we have both our parents close and every friday they would take the kids for a few hours for us to do our "date night" usually dinner and a movie or we would do dinner and just drive aimlesly talking for a few hours.

Diana - posted on 06/16/2010

Ask a family member to babysit, or if you have no family near you If you live near a college speak to someone in their education department and see if they have any college student that would be willing to. Or most churches have youth groups you could ask the youth minister or pastor if they have any suggestions. Or you could join a mommy and me group get to know some other moms and swop kids on rotating evenings. that way everyone in the neighborhood gets to spend some much deserved alone time with their spouse.

Nichola - posted on 06/16/2010

take child/ren out to the park with a picnic play games all day...come home, bath then bed... watch them konk out straight away !!! enjoy your night !! :)

Ashley - posted on 06/16/2010

I think datenight is very very important. That's how you fell in love, right?
We used to just put him to bed early, but now we make a point of going out at least 2 times a month. We actually found a great drop in daycare close by that is open on fridays and saturdays until 11. I might never have even tried it when he was younger (being so overprotective at that age), but I did try it as he got older and he loves it. I feel safe taking him there, and he likes playing with the kids and doing crafts, etc. Of course, get reccomendations, and check them out, but we love it. We drop him off, go have an inexpensive dinner and go to the dollar movie, or even just go walking around an outdoor shopping center and talk, etc. We love it.

Grace - posted on 06/16/2010

i agree with becky tanner. I have two boys (3and1) and it's sometimes really hard to get time alone with my husband. like becky said plan a really big day for the little one and skip naptime. i usually try and get together with another mom from the area and have a picnic at the park and then the library maybe the pool(the pool really wears them out so don't take them too early in the day)whatever we can find to keep the kids awake all day. then instead of bedtime at 9 it's more like 7. then me and my hubby get to stay up and talk or watch a movie or what not. he sometimes goes and gets a pizza or some ice cream or something. we try and do this every other friday that way we have saturday to re-coop :) hope i was helpful

Kayla - posted on 06/16/2010

We always have to wait till our lil one goes to bed.. We only have a few family members we trust to watch him and he has never spent the night away from us.. So if you dont want no one watchin your kids you just got to wait till the are asleep lol

Ashley - posted on 06/16/2010

Me and my family live 2 hours away from our relatives where majority of the time that is a blessing haha, but sometimes when me and the sweetie want some alone time we can't because we have a two year following us around like he is connected to our hips. We have only lived here for a year so I haven't been able to find a really good babysitter, so sometimes we just lay our son in bed a little earlier. turn on baby development tv for about an hour and a half and he is asleep and we get a little extra time with each other. It's so important to find alone time with your spouse or the flame just burns out and that's never good for a marriage. Find that alone time your looking for.

Becky - posted on 06/16/2010

We leave overseas with no family and not a lot of people we trust to watch our kids. So what we do when we want a night to just us is this. I keep my daughter really busy all day and "forget" to give her a nap. This way she is in bed 2-3 hours sooner and we only have the baby who always goes to sleep no later then 30 mins after her big sister goes to bed. We rent a movie, make popcorn, have ice cream and just different treats that we don't get to have all the time. We turn out the lights, my hubby puts candels on and we cuddle together and watch the movie.. But if you can get a sitter that always works too. My mom came out to visit us in March and we were able to go on our first real date in over a year and now we will have to wait till next summer for our next one.

Cailie - posted on 06/15/2010

let someone you trust watch your little one and run! dont feel bad for taking a little time for youself and your hunny! or wait till the little onews gose to bed and then enjoy a little time to your self@!