Here are 10 creative date night ideas for parents and ways to make time for a date night with your spouse when you have kids.

10 Ways to make time for Date Night

We all know life can be tough. Between making breakfast, taking kids to school, work, after-school activities, dinner, baths, laundry, you’re lucky if you even see your spouse before you go to sleep to do it all over again. Making time for each other is so important for your marriage and it really helps strengthen your relationship with valuable quality time. Below are 10 ways to make time for date night.

   Send your kids to the grandparents.

 You know the grandparents love to spoil those kiddos.   Let them take your offspring for a few hours while you and your spouse have some quality time together.

If no grandparents, ask kids friends. Tell them you’ll return the favor next weekend.

You might even be able to make this a monthly thing. One weekend a month, you watch all the kids while your child’s friend’s parents have a night out and then vice versa. You’ll enjoy the free time and your kids will enjoy having their friends to hang out with.

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 Send the kids and sitter out.

Let your sitter take the kids out and you have a nice night at home cuddled up with your loved one.

 Take a half day off work and do something you haven’t done in years together.

Sneak out a few hours early from and meet up with your loved one for some good one on one time.

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 Take a long lunch. 

Are you able to take a long lunch? Do it, and head over to your spouse and have some lunch together. You’d be surprised how nice and refreshing it is to have lunch kid free.

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Plan a day to skip work if you have vacation or sick days left over. 

Got vacation days leftover you need to use? or by miracle, you have some sick days? We all need a sanity day, to keep us from getting sick anyway. Why not use those days at the same time and go make a day of it. Go to the park, catch a movie, get a massage. Another idea is each choose something to do for the day, and try to do both. Enjoy the time being together.

 Plan a night to stay up past the kids.

By planning ahead and setting up something special, it gets you excited and ready to stay up late.

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 Plan a date while they are in school.

Don’t work the normal Monday-Friday? Get a holiday that the kids don’t? Use it to your advantage for an outing. Sure you have errands to run, but nothing beats time with your best friend.

 Hit school meetings early and then head out for a date after:

you already have a sitter, saw the teacher,  why not make the most of the night. Head out for dinner or dessert after, or a show, or even just a drink at a bar.

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 See if your child can carpool for practice, and you go out on a date with your spouse.

You always at every practice cheering your child on, but what about cheering your spouse on? Your spouse needs quality time just as much as your child, why not skip a practice to give your guy and gal some love. Trust me, it will give them all the feels.

There you have it! Some great ways to sneak in date night even when you are limited on time. If you need date night ideas, check out some ideas here. I hope you incorporate these into your life at one point or another to really give your partner some special quality time.

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