One thing I really missed after my husband and I had kids was the ability to go on date nights. We do not live close to any family members and I don’t trust very many people to babysit my kids, so the two of us going out for a nice dinner was not super realistic. But I still craved the connection of just the two of us having a nice conversation over dinner and getting to know each other better.
Our solution to this came when we decided to embrace the season of life we are in and make it work no matter what. For us, that means living room date nights.
Every Friday night my husband and I text each other at lunch and decide on two things: what food we want for the evening and what activity we want to do. Each of us gets to pick one and we alternate every week. Then my husband picks up that decided on food on his way home from work. We feed the kids their dinner and get them put to bed, then we enjoy a nice quiet meal together on the couch. We either watch a movie together, play a board game, have a heart to heart conversation or we might be feeling intimate. It has helped us a lot with our connection to each other. Rather than just suffering through the season of parenting young children and never having any alone time, we focus on the time we do have and make the best of it. Even if it is just a sub sandwich shared between us.❤️
Coffee, Children and Craziness 
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