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DH is totally okay going to see a movie alone. And he is very practical, so i feel like it is his voice in my head saying not to spend that much money. I am waiting to hear back from our sitter to see if she available and then i will think about it some more. The problem with doing this next year is that we will also have an 11 month old. I am not sure if we will want to go out alone and leave both kids with a sitter by then. I could plan in my advance for my mom to visit though....But i would rather wait and see how easy/difficult DS2 turns out to be (he is due this Feb)

@birdofafeather: it is partly the cost and the fact that the seats i would get for that cost are not that amazing. If they were the best seats in the house, i would be less hesitant. It just doesn't seem worth it to spend $500+ for an evening at a hockey game when we would be sitting in the nosebleed section. So if I wait until next year, i will hopefully remember to buy tickets as soon as they go on sale for the season and get better seats. And hopefully the cost will be less of an issue because we will done most of our major house renos etc (we just moved a few months ago). We have been spending a lot of money in general lately.

However, this time next year i will be in the second half of my mat leave and making far less money.....hence another reason why i wanted to do it this year!

@delight: that does sound like a fun idea. i just don't think we can swing an overnight trip now. we would have to bring LO, so i couldn't attend the game still, so that would defeat the purpose, and we don't have the extra time off work at all to do that. but it is definitely a possibility in the future!

@Mamaof2: @blackbird: it would definitely have to be a surprise. DH is so practical that if i told him in advance, he would tell me not to get tickets and save money, lol. Plus the fun would be that he is just a handed a fun night out. He never does things for himself and works so hard, i wanted to surprise him with something. If we had a sitter and it was a regular saturday night, it would be simple. It is the cost to do that (which does't match the quality of the seats) that is the main issue i guess. And now the fact that we don't have a sitter.

I think i will wait until next year. We have talked about other gift ideas for each other - basically things we are planning to buy anyway, but if the other one pays for it, we will call it a gift. And we are fine to do that this year given that we are putting so much money into our house already and we want it done! i just wanted to do something fun for him too and surprise him.

Anyone have any other ideas??

@tinyperson: sounds fun! lol, i swore i would never buy my kid a Habs jersey because i didn't want to assimilate him the way i see everyone do to their kids in Montreal though.

@tinyperson: DH is not that into hockey either that he would care to wear the jersey himself. He doesn't even really watch it on TV. I just know he would have fun attending a game in person though.