My husband and I have never been the type to go out to bars or anything like that. We always preferred to be home and in bed by 9 pm. We enjoy going to different events in our community, like art fairs and live music. We love doing things that are outside so we can bring our pup. The things that I miss since having my lo are movies, plays, and going to the dog park. Other than that, life is pretty much the same.
How has your life changed since having a baby?
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
Not at all. DH and I were always homebodies too. We like to eat out, but now we take our LO with us. 
She loves being out and loves to people watch so we're lucky.
GOLD / wonderful coffee bean / 18478 posts
We are definitely a lot less flashier than we used to be. We used to do a lot of expensive dinners and designer this and that. I don't miss it all that much though. I am glad we had that phase but it is a bit been there done that.
admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts
Life is totally different for me!!
I used to work a lot. Now I don't work nearly as much, and it had made a huge difference in my career.
persimmon / 1099 posts
MRBee care to share more? What kind of changes has it had on your career? Are you happier as a result?
apricot / 498 posts
We miss movies. Other than that not much has changed. More forethought to go out though.
We still go to the dog park....Artbee- any reason why you don't go though?
grape / 86 posts
Totally different -- We used to go out every weekend. Eat out in nice restaurants; lovely food and lots of wine.
Now, we are homebodies. Not complaining, just different.
admin / watermelon / 14210 posts
I agree with mr. bee -- life is completely different. we used to work every weekend, but now our weekends are always family time.
when i go out, it's only in the evenings and not without mr. bee since someone has to stay home with charlie. now that we have two kids, i don't think i'll be going out until maybe olive is sleeping thru the night.
i really wish we had our parents nearby so we could feel less guilty about forgoing weekend family time to work or spend some time with each other!
admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts
@Nskillet: No, it's been very hard trying to balance things.
That said, I do love my kids and love spending time with them.
GOLD / wonderful grape / 20289 posts
@venice4504: I don't trust strange dogs around my lo. You never know when they'll just come and jump up on you. Also if they're playing they get rough and will run right into you. My husband's been knocked down before, so it would have been bad if he had a baby in his arms. He still goes to the dog park, we just don't go as a family.
pear / 1554 posts
Definitely yes. Husband and I used to go out to eat all the time. We also would try to take day trips out of the city on his days off. I think now, we have to do much more planning any time we want to go anywhere.
GOLD / wonderful grape / 20289 posts
@mynoahbear: We still go out to eat a lot. I love going out because I'm stuck at home with the baby all day. It's a hassle... since we insist on bringing our dog everywhere we go too, but it's worth it!
apricot / 498 posts
@artbee: Makes sense. We just always put him in the Ergo so he's safe. I've never had a problem but around here there are lot of kids always at the dog park too so maybe everyone is just looking out more.
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