Intentional Couple Time -Part 2: Post Bedtime Date Ideas

If you are like us, being married with three little kids, you probably don't get out on honest to goodness dates very often. We try not to let that stop us however from spending quality time together on a regular basis. While it certainly isn't as great as a well planned romantic getaway having an after-the-kids-are-asleep-home-date is still helpful and worth taking the time for.

At home date ideas:

• Enjoy dinner and/or dessert together, after the kids are down. We almost always do this (or at least a fun treat), plus a few other things. 
• Play board and card games together. Our personal favorite is King's Cribbage. (btw I promise that isn't an undeclared affiliate link)
• Filling out excel spreadsheets together. About just about anything. Yes, we are nerds. One of my favorites we did was figuring out if it would be better to keep buying houses of increasing value over many years vs. getting a mortgage for the same number of years. Course, that was 5 years of renting ago.
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• Designing houses together. Crazy houses with multi-story book cases, unique ways of being efficient, and the occasional monolithic dome. 
• Work on trouble spots together. Romantic? No. But we have better conversations when working together than doing just about any other time.
• Just talking. Preferably not about kids.
• YouTube videos. Preferably educational ones as that leads to us talking. 
• Ted Talks. Same idea as the YouTube videos.
•  Researching something together. Something neither of us know much about, but peaks both our interest.
• Cooking together. Generally not Mark's preference but we have had a few fun times doing it. 
• Doing art together. The one time we did this we both enjoyed simply goofing off with some colored pens and computer paper.
• Exercising together. We actually have been wanting to get into that more, our exercising preferences are pretty different though. 
• Massages.
• Watching a show together. This tends to be our go-to which we are trying to get away from, but it is nice to snuggle and watch something together. Right now we are enjoying the comedy series Malcolm in the Middle (found on netflix) and it cracks both of us up. 
• Play GeoGuessr together. 
• Play Would You Rather? Or other similar games. 
• Sit together eating tostones while brainstorming, and writing out, ideas for at-home-dates.
  
  Do you ever do at-home date nights? What are some things you do together?