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My husband and I have been having a home date night for over 15 years now.
Living on a single income and feeding 6 children, doesn’t leave much spending money for babysitters.
Not to mention how much it would cost to pay a reliable babysitter for 6 children.
We try to have a home date night at least one night a week, of course, life gets busy and it doesn’t always happen.
However, I believe this one area that Satan tends to get the best of us. He is in the busineess of breaking up marriages, especially Christian marriages. And he is pretty good at it if you ask me… considering the divorce rate among Christians is at a high rate of 50%.
Please don’t let Satan win!
Make dating your soulmate a priority! Even if it is a home date!
25 Home Date Ideas
- Dress up your backyard and have a picnic
- Read a book or audio together
- Dinner alone – feed the children before he gets home. *we do this every Friday night
- Pick a TV show and watch it every week *we watch 48 hours every Sat night. I know we are weird!
- Make a special dessert
- Move the furniture and make a dance floor
- Watch a sport’s event on TV and serve stadium foods - nachos, hot dogs, popcorn
- Watch your first movie together and snuggle
- Eat Take Out on your fine china with candlelight
- Have a blanket picnic in front of a fire
- Give each other a massage – buy some special lotion and candle
- Play a board game – whoever loses has to put the kiddos to bed or wash the dishes the next night
- Puzzle – work on a jigsaw, crossword, or sudko together
- Fondue Night
- Go down Memory Lane and watch videos or look at old photos
- Watch an entire season of your favorite TV show
- Paris Night – baguette, French Wine, and cheese
- Do a Bible Study together
- Make chocolate covered strawberries
- Appetizer Night – make 3-4 new items
- Sit outside and watch for shooting stars
- Make Ice Cream Sundaes after the children go to bed
- Take a hot bubble bath together
- Surf the internet on a topic you both want to learn more about
- Light the bedroom with lots of candles and just talk
We are now blessed to have a teenagers to watch the little ones.
What is your favorite home date idea? We would love to hear your ideas!
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Our favorite is to lay on the trampoline after the kids go to bed and look at the stars….
Pick a tv show. That reminds me there’s a new Doctor Who Today! Wo0T!!!1!
those are great! we play lots of board games too!!
We don’t have the $ or time off to go on a vacation so we spent an evening planning an exotic vacation as if $ and time were no problem. It was super fun finding locations and expensive hotels and looking at pictures of all the scenery we would get to see. We had a great time and my hubby was even talking about it the next day he enjoyed it so much!
here’s a link to the post I wrote on it.
http://www.hopefulfuture.blogspot.com/2012/07/at-home-date-night-fake-vacation.html
These are great ideas; thanks. My DH and I would like to go on more dates, but the “going out” part is what limits us.
Thanks for all the ideas! The ability to do a date at home would really help make sure it gets done!
Hopping in from Bloggy Moms, but read you regularly!
Thank you Mrs Price is Right! Enjoy! And thanks for reading Blessed Beyond a Doubt.
Great ideas
Thanks for these ideas…they’ve got my creative juices flowing. My husband and I celebrate 42 years of marriage tomorrow, and we’re celebrating with a trip next week. But I’ve been trying to think how to make the actual date special too. Bless you, Gail (BibleLoveNotes.com)
Congratulations Gail to you and your hubbie! Have a wonderful trip! Please come back and let us know how it went!
Great list. We enjoyed reading this…together.
Gave us lots of ideas of how to be more creative after our 3 little ones go to bed.
Yay, Jodi! Please come back and let us know what worked for you all! We need updates!
Great list, thanks!
Love the list! I pinned it to try some of them later. I especially like the idea for Friday night dinner. My hubby and I like to work on projects together, building and fixing stuff. We get Grandma to come babysit and then retreat to the garage, just the two of us. (This is only a good idea if the two of you work well together.)
Thank you, Amanda for pinning this so others can spark up their marriages. It’s a passion of mine (:
I love it! Thank you so much for posting on Saturday Show and Tell. I hope you’ll be back this week to link up some more great ideas! Have a great rest of the week!
-Mackenzie
http://www.cheeriosandlattes.com
You are so very welcome, Mackenzie. And thanks for always having such a FUN link up!
Great ideas! We need to get better at having at home dates since we don’t have any family near by or a babysitter.
Such cute ideas! I love the fondue night idea
You’re right, having a romantic night with your man doesn’t have to cost a lot! It’s just about being together!
Bed of a Truck, Sunset, Field, and Picnic Basket.
What fun ideas!! Thanks for sharing!
Great ideas…Never thought of having a home date night:) Thanks!
Our favorite at-home date is to watch Netflix together after the kids go to bed
Thanks for linking up at Thrifty Thursday! I pinned this post to our TT Pinterest board!
My husband and I just had a conversation today about needing to spend better quality time together. We just purchased our home last week and so money is tight and so is the stress levels.. This is the perfect way to be budget friendly while trying to put the focus back on our marriage and not just the day to day grind! I know God sent me to this thread! Thank you!