Couple time? - a question from my DH

[Demented]

My DH has asked me to ask about this on MN (as he has come to understand MNetters always know the answers ).

I'm not sure what he is getting at here or what he may be planning on changing about our lives but he wondered how many of you spend couple time with each other - set times for just the two of you to play board games, watch a film etc, etc?

I suggested we take up oregami or perhaps spin our own wool in the evenings but he wasn't impressed. I think he has visions of couples with young children up and down the land putting the kids to bed and spending quality time with each other instead of crashing in front of the telly, PC, tidying up, sorting laundry or doing ironing.

All answers appreciated, I think!

Date night = every Friday. But have MIL from heaven who loves to babysit. You may now feel free to throw 's at me!!

Seriously though, I don't think couple time is a luxury. And it doesn't have to involve leaving the house but the kids have to be out of sight and out of mind (we had to actually ban them as an acceptable topic of conversation!)

Saturday we meant to see a movie, but couldn't find one we liked. So, more or less out of desperation, we went out to dinner with my father and then dumped the baby on him for 90 minutes and went for a walk and had a pastry at a cake shop. It worked surprisingly well, actually -- didn't require so much preparation that it took all the fun out of it. For 90 minutes in the early evening we just dropped her off with her normal diaper bag. The cake shop was out of eclairs, though. I think we'll try doing something like this more often.