Mommy Time - Date Night

Married couples can become so bogged down in raising children that all the romance is unknowingly out of the equation. Date nights can help keep the romance alive in your relationship. Ask a trusted friend or family member to watch the kids so you and your spouse can have some alone time. Here are some fun, silly, sweet, and inexpensive date night ideas to spend quality time together with your spouse:

1. Watch a movie together
2. Cut up fruit slices and melt some chocolate for a delicious and romantic chocolate fondue night
3. Play cards - (maybe strip poker?)
4. Get some board games out and be as silly as you want
5. Take a bubble bath together with romantic music, candles, and champagne
6. Clean the house together and wash each other up in the shower when you're done
7. Put on some music and dance together
8. Sing to each other
9. Take a long walk together
10. Hit the gym together
11. Give each other a massage
12. Go ride your bikes together
13. Sit by the fireplace or firepit and make smores for two
14. Go shopping together (or just window shopping)
15. Play frisbee
16. Cook together
17. Grab some food and a picnic basket and head to the park
18. Do a strip dance for each other
19. Go ice skating together
20. Give each other a facial or a manicure/pedicure
21. Build a snowman together or have a snowball fight
22. Check out some model houses for some decorating ideas
23. Go have coffee at the bookstore together
24. Plant flowers together
25. Go swimming or skinny dipping together
26. Watch the fireworks
27. Sit on your deck and grill some burgers
28. Go test drive a fancy, convertible car
29. Play golf or tennis together
30. Make a gigantic ice cream sundae and share a bowl
31. Take a walk at the beach and watch the sunset together
32. Check out the local museum or library
33. Take a dancing, cooking, or decorating class together
34. Go to a wine tasting
35. Play paintball
36. Have a water baloon fight
37. Find a paint-your-own-pottery place and paint a mug, plate, or bowl for each other
38. Catch a football or shoot basketball together
39. Role playing
40. Feed the ducks
41. Write or read poems to each other
42. Play the Guitar Hero or Rockband together
43. Check out the neighborhood garage sales
44. Snuggle up with a blanket on the couch together and talk all night
45. Lie down at the backyard and watch the stars
46. Go online and design your dream house or patio at home store websites
47. Look through old photos of the two of you together and pick your favorite to frame
48. Go to a free movie or concert
49. Make breakfast in bed
50. Go sample tasting at a local food festival
51. Ride the ferris wheel at a local carnival
52. Scrapbooking together

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