Do me a favor! Put the kids to bed a plan a date night at home. We don’t have a babysitter in Paducah and we really don’t have the money for a date night this Valentine’s day (especially with hospital bills and me being on maternity leave). So I had to get creative with our date night this year. This blog post will give you and your man tips on how to have a date night at home.

Chris and I have been on the paleo diet and we are making some serious lifestyle changes now that I am not pregnant. So date night is going to be an amazing treat for us. We also have been a little disconnected with having two kids and a newborn. We are tired parent zombies that never feel like going out even if we did have a sitter.

10 Steps to your Perfect Date Night at Home:

Talk to your husband ahead of time and ask him what the perfect date night for him would be. Chris told me his perfect Date night would be making his favorite dish and us playing Xbox together. His favorite dish is pesto chicken. My favorite dish is a gluten-free pizza. We compromised on the pizza so I didn’t have to cook. He didn’t mind.

Dress up or Dress Down. I love dressing up and Chris loves dressing down. I wanted to dress up like we were going out and sit at the dinner table like a real date. He wanted to dress down and lay in the bed. We went with dressing down. Either one is a great idea.

Indulge in your favorite foods and Drinks. What did yall eat or drink on your first date together? Pizza, M and M’s, popcorn, beer, and wine? Those are all the favorite things we like to eat and drink together. I think it connects us in some weird way.

Set the Mood. Some cheap roses from the grocery store will do it. Cover the bed in rose petals and get an awesome tray from Amazon to set your food on. Lighting candles always help to set the mood.

Link to my favorite Bed Tray here

Link to my favorite Tyler Candle here

PUT YOUR PHONES AWAY. Phones are not a great way to notice each other. We fight over not paying attention to each other while we are on the phones. This is time for you and your husband to connect together. Bye Phones!

Take a Bath Together. When was the last time you took a bath together? Baths work better for us. I hate not being under the water and getting cold. Put some rose petals and candles in your bathtub. Impress him with a bath bomb. I bet your husband will think it’s cool.

Start a show Together.

Here are some of OUR favorite Netflix and On Demand shows. Notice I said OUR. These are Guy and Girl Approved.

1. The Good Doctor
2. The Office
3. Scandal
4. How I Met Your Mother.
5. The New Girl
6. The Walking Dead
7. The Assassination of Gianni Versace
8. This is Us

Play a game together.

1. Scavenger Hunt. If you got each other a little gift then you can do a scavenger hunt on where to find it.
2. Get to know me Trivia. Come up with 20 questions each. Does winner get a back rub? Yall come up with a prize for the winner.
3. Xbox- Chris is always begging for me to play Zombies with him.
4. Beer Pong on the Kitchen Table- Chri’s favorite game.

Build a Fort in the Living Room.

Sometimes a change in scenery is good. Pull out all the blankets and put your mattress on the living room floor. We did this all the time when we were dating in college.

Rent a Movie.

I don’t know about you but we don’t rent movies unless they are kid approved. So rent Fifty Shades or something you know you couldn’t watch when the kids are around. Just make sure you two don’t fall asleep. That happens to us all the time.

I hope yall enjoyed this blog post because it was so fun for me to make!! Whatever you and your man end up doing just try to enjoy each other. Life can get so crazy with kids, school, and work. But remember those little moments before the kids were here and it was just you two.

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