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You all know I have four kids. I stay at home, and I’m lucky if I have a reason to put on makeup once a week. Dates are rare these days….like, every three (or six) months at the most (and we have family living practically next door). But when it does happen, I try my hardest to make the most of it, so I can hang on to the memories until the next one rolls around (you know, in June).

• Do not, under any circumstances, tell the world how excited you are to be getting out UNTIL YOU ARE GONE. Something will inevitably happen to ruin your plans, and you will be incredibly disappointed while everyone is waiting to live vicariously through your pictures.
• Dress up for yourself, especially if you don’t get out much. OR, dress for the weather, because your husband won’t notice that you have rain boots on until you tweet about it.

• Think hard about where you’re going to eat. If fancy’s not your thing, don’t waste your once-in-a-blue-moon date on fancy. Go to a place where you can get amazing french fries and sangria. Or pizza and beer if that’s what you want. Or the most perfectly cooked steak and shrimp with a glass of the splurgiest wine. You don’t get nights out much, so do exactly what YOU want to do.
• You know you’re not “supposed” to talk about your kids when you’ve finally gotten the chance to leave them for a while. And you know how hard it is to not talk about them. In order to just get it out of the way, I love to get a text from the babysitter/grandparent with a picture of what the kids are doing. You know, rip the band-aid off and move on with the night.

• When we finally get a chance to see a movie, there’s never much to choose from. Pick the least of the evils and just go, if you love the movie theater like I do. Even if the movie turns out to be terrible, you just spent two hours alone with your spouse and mindless entertainment. I call that a win.
• Make absolutely sure that you take a picture of the two of you together, so on Thursday, when the kids are fighting and you’re making turkey roll ups for the third lunch in a row, you can prove to yourself that date night actually did happen.

• If at all possible, find someplace for your kids to spend the night, other than your home. That way, you can stay out with your husband way later than you normally would and be reminded of just how old you are.
• If “date night” can’t happen, “date afternoon” can be just as good. Fewer crowds at the restaurants and movie theaters, sunshine for things like mini golfing, and the option to add super romantic extras like stopping at the grocery store for four gallons of milk and a gigantic pack of toilet paper.

How do you do date night?

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