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We love playing cards or board games together. I think cards is a great idea. I know you said that you wanted ideas for home..... But we love Escape Rooms. Have you done one yet? They only take an hour and you can just come straight home and discuss it together. They're a perfect couple activity as you have to work together to solve a series of puzzles. You really only need a sitter for 1.5 hours tops. DH and I love doing escape rooms!

Our quality time often centers around being outside. We try for nightly walks, and a longer walk or hike most weekends. We plant a veggie garden every year, and that's fun to plan and care for together. When it's hot enough for daily watering, we spend those few minutes together in the evening--one of us keeps an eye on the kiddo, the other waters, we talk.

When the weather was warmer, DH and I sat in the backyard with wine and some nibbles with the monitor next to us. I also try to make a dessert once a week we can share at night - this week is an ice cream pie! Or one of us will go out and bring home a treat, like an Icee or a milkshake. Tonight DH and I are watching a hockey game together. Other nights when we are tired, we just lay in bed in the dark and chat about our day for an hour while the house is quiet and that's nice.

There was a blog post a while back about 2 person games. I bought a few of them forDH and myself. We really enjoyed playing those after bedtime.

My husband and I go for lunch during the week about once a month.

We could use some help in this department as well, we are homebodies during the work week.

We did weekly home date nights for a while. I got some ideas online, but the most important bit was putting our phones on the counter and leaving them there.
Play HORSE with our 2yo's inside basketball set (so silly, so fun)
Cook a new dessert
Swap foot rubs
Assemble kid furniture (we like making things together)
Reorganize garage tools (this is fun for DH)
Make a shutterfly book together
Take a shower

We started getting Blue Apron for this reason. We have a weekend (Thurs/Fri) delivery and have at-home date nights where we cook together (after DS is in bed), drink wine, and then usually watch something on Netflix afterward.

Any chance you have a hot tub? We go in regularly and that's the place we have our best conversations because there's nothing else to focus on. Maybe even just sitting outside? Smores by fire? (I wish my DH's love Lang was QT! He's more ADD...!)

Our "dates" pretty much always involve LO--we go to the beach, go for long walks/hikes in the local park, etc., and LO comes along. We also get together with friends nearly every week for dinner/drinks and a movie at one of our homes. Classic movies and some documentaries work really well for this because they are mostly free of objectionable material, but they're not "kiddie," so it's entertaining for the adults. And yeah, sometimes we just watch half of a movie at a time... We also try to do coffee together in the morning on our porch/in the garden before LO gets up.

ETA: Oh, and I forgot, but sometimes we read aloud to each other. It usually works that he'll read to me (and LO) after dinner while I pack things up. We pick novels/nonfiction that are written for adults, but that we're okay with LO listening in on.

@MrsH: In passing, I once mentioned to my husband that we should consider "dating" each other again (like in doing stuff, not with other people, lol) and he looked at me like I had three heads. His response was "We're married, I don't want to date you again."

I tried to look at my husband's interests, but they are so not what I am into (Cars, mobile phones, computers). We recently took a family trip to a car show, I liked it but I am not sure I am ready to start going on a weekly basis!

@MrsH: Ha, I agree with everything in that blog post, but out of curiosity, if you sent that to your husband, what would his reaction be?

@MrsH: Mine too! It's official, you and I are apparently sister wives.

@MrsH: It's hard! That's why we did one night a week. So, kids go to bed, phones go on the counter, and then even if all we do is watch tv, it's still more intentional and conversational.