https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:20:13 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/day-date-ideas#post-2927526 Fri, 30 Sep 2022 20:20:33 +0000 karenbme 2927526@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LemonJack: Totally agree that it’s normal behavior and my Dad needs to either be around more or be an adult and deal with the fact that his granddaughter is in a stranger danger phase. Also brunch, FTW. 🥞 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/day-date-ideas#post-2927525 Fri, 30 Sep 2022 18:03:00 +0000 LemonJack 2927525@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@karenbme: Oh no! She’s acting exactly like a typical two year old. Mine have all been like that at that age.</p> <p>My favorite day date idea is to go out to a nice brunch. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/day-date-ideas#post-2927524 Fri, 30 Sep 2022 07:58:43 +0000 karenbme 2927524@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bees_knees: that is my preferred solution, but explicitly not what they’re volunteering for. They have a theory that the only reason DD hasn’t warmed up to them is because we’re interfering so they want time alone with her. Really, though, she’s 2 and slow to warm up to anyone, and they’re only around for &lt;24 hours every few months, 12 hours of which she’s asleep, and always want to play in developmentally inappropriate ways. We do what we can to make visits to them (we visited 4 times this summer) but it’s a 3-4 hour drive with a toddler who doesn’t like the car and two 40-50 hour a week jobs vs one retired and one semi-retired empty nester. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/day-date-ideas#post-2927523 Thu, 29 Sep 2022 23:44:10 +0000 bees_knees 2927523@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think all of these ideas sound devine! Alternatively, could you put DD to bed a little early and then leave after? Assuming she sleeps well, that is. And assuming you trust your dad/step mom to either stay awake or wake up if they hear her… </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/day-date-ideas#post-2927522 Thu, 29 Sep 2022 22:43:19 +0000 Chuckles 2927522@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@karenbme: I was thinking of a relaxed walk somewhere pretty - forest preserve, botanic garden, etc, if the weather will be decent, and then a fancy brunch or lunch somewhere. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/day-date-ideas#post-2927521 Thu, 29 Sep 2022 21:34:40 +0000 Lahela017 2927521@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think I would do a fancy brunch, hang out at a park for a bit, and then get desert someplace else. If it's a nice day and you can't do too much walking, I'd do a short stroll at the park and then play a board game or something at a picnic table. It's it's raining or too cold, I'd go to a coffee shop to play a game. (My husband and I love playing Yahtzee together - it's chill and we can chat about whatever while we play, but it's still fun. Back when our daughter was still a sleepy baby, pre-covid, we would take her along to Yahtzee coffee shop Sunday morning date time, now we try to squeeze in a game after the kids go to bed once in awhile.) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/day-date-ideas#post-2927520 Thu, 29 Sep 2022 20:08:55 +0000 karenbme 2927520@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Chuckles: yeah, I can walk. I feel perfectly healthy and would love to be running/doing yoga as normal, but I’m supposed to avoid anything that would make me winded or engage my core, which is basically anything more than walking. 😅 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/day-date-ideas#post-2927519 Thu, 29 Sep 2022 20:04:01 +0000 karenbme 2927519@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@caitcat: I love this idea, but the one time my dad buckled DD into her car seat he just buckled the bottom part and somehow didn’t see (forgot about?) the chest clip and didn’t tighten the straps and we had to pull over on the side of the highway to buckle her, so there isn’t a lot of trust for them driving her places. But you can’t tell them anything because “we raised 4 kids between the two of us, and you all survived.” But seriously, a plate of drunken noodles and two hours to watch a movie when we’re not already exhausted sounds like heaven.</p> <p>@JJ2626: lol, I would love this, but DH has a thing about massages 😂 I could definitely get behind fancy brunch though. 🥐</p> <p>@LadyDi: Restaurant hopping sounds fun, but I don’t think the timing is going to work even for an early dinner and apps, entrée, dessert is a little less lunch-y.</p> <p>The more I think about splurgey brunch though the more I like the idea. There’s also a nice brunch place up the road from a pie shop and we could do brunch and then pie, or maybe bring home a pie (we had pie instead of cake at our wedding). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/day-date-ideas#post-2927518 Thu, 29 Sep 2022 19:12:48 +0000 Chuckles 2927518@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@caitcat: ooh, yes! Pre-kid me had no idea how rare quiet time at home would be and how much I would enjoy it.<br /> Are you able to take a walk at a slower pace? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/day-date-ideas#post-2927516 Thu, 29 Sep 2022 17:42:29 +0000 LadyDi 2927516@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What about a couples cooking class? Or splurge on a decadent lunch? Restaurant hop and pick a different place for apps, then a new place for entrees and somewhere else for a dessert? Or, this is the complete opposite of that, but we have friends who, for every Valentine's day, drive around to all of the different typical fast food restaurants and get what they consider the best thing each place has and then have a picnic (so fries from mcdonalds, frosties from wendys, etc) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/day-date-ideas#post-2927515 Thu, 29 Sep 2022 14:42:47 +0000 caitcat 2927515@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So this is probably not what you're looking for since it's not an outing (and is kind of boring!)...but if I were in your shoes, I'd be tempted to ask my parents to take my daughter to the park and maybe on a picnic to get her out of the house for a few hours, and I'd get takeout to eat at home and watch a movie from the comfort of my couch. :) That would check covid-safe boxes for me and still feel like a nice time without a preschooler underfoot for a change of pace. </p> <p>Happy anniversary, however you decide to celebrate! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/day-date-ideas#post-2927514 Thu, 29 Sep 2022 13:58:23 +0000 JJ2626 2927514@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What about a couples massage and a fancy lunch? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/day-date-ideas#post-2927513 Thu, 29 Sep 2022 11:58:41 +0000 karenbme 2927513@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH and I have our 10th anniversary this week, and my dad and step mom have voluntold us that they’re coming up to babysit so that we can have some alone time and they can have some one on one time with DD. Our second baby is due in December and with Covid DD (almost 3) hasn’t had a ton of time when she wasn’t either at daycare or with me/DH, so we want to do it, just during the day because we’re not comfortable with them doing bedtime based on statements they’ve made about how most things we’re doing are wrong. But I have absolutely no ideas for what we would do for a 2-3 hour day date. </p> <p>I’m 28 weeks pregnant and have been advised to avoid exercise because of my risk of preterm delivery, so anything with alcohol, coffee or the outdoors is out. Maybe a matinee? I’m still trying pretty hard to avoid Covid as a pregnant person, which would typically, for me, mean avoiding movie theaters. There aren’t really adult-targeted museums in our area. I’m totally stumped. </p>