this past weekend we realized that since having kids we hardly ever get any time to ourselves...we can't remember the last movie we saw together in a theater (well i'm pretty sure it's Knocked Up-which came out in summer 2007)
How do some people do it? Go out, have alone time and have much needed "me time"...
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ReplyDeleteI think not getting out a lot is part of having young kids ofr most people. Adam and I now have a babysitter or send Zoë on a sleepover (that she is invited to, we don't seek them out and like having her at home at night actually) once a month or so on average....though it tends to be in spurts. She'll have a sitter or sleepover 3 weekends in a row, then nothing for 6 months ! BUT, until she was quite a bit over 1 we never went out without her, and it started to be more often than a few times a year (mostly if we have an affair to attend) when she was about 4.
I have never really felt like we needed to get out to enjoy couple time though. I think it is more important to enjoy the time we have alone even if we are at home and so is she...after all she goes to sleep at 9pm (and I know your kids go to bed earlier) and we dohn't co-sleep. At least once a week, we really try to get off the computer, get away from our seperate books, TV shows, and hobbies...and spend that time together. We watch a TV show we both love together(on TV or online), or rent a movie, or play video games, or have a drink and snack (If Zoë went to bed earlier, I would try to have an adults only dinner a few times a month...order in something she does not like and crack open some wine or Bailey's after she goes to bed!).
Beyond that, I don't know the trick. Only that the older the kids get, the easier it is...of course we are going back to square one in a few weeks!!
Oh as for "me" time as opposed to "couple" time...my trick is that I don't clean or cook much :). I do the bare minimum to keep our home decent and our family fed. I refuse to spend my few free hours a night doing laundry or scrubbing floors.