Do any parents still do fun things together?

[Anonymous]

Yes, we have fun!

We go to movies, out to dinner, museums, walks and hikes, friends' dinner parties.

We also manage to have a good time at home, which is really possible after kid goes to bed at eight if you remember to:

--Put the laptop down, and only use it to finish actual work but not to dip around on the internet when you could be talkign to each other or better yet having sex.
--Cultivate your sex life. Re-becoming a sexual being gets you in touch with your other adult interests, provides energy to dream up date nights, and is the most fun thing you can do together anyway.
--Have couples over for dinner after your child goes to sleep.

[Anonymous]

i also have to recommend going to a dueling piano bar. bobby mckey's at the new national harbor or howl at the moon in baltimore. it's a rollicking good time of singing along to fun requests (lots from the 80's) and watching some talented live musicians.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i also have to recommend going to a dueling piano bar. bobby mckey's at the new national harbor or howl at the moon in baltimore. it's a rollicking good time of singing along to fun requests (lots from the 80's) and watching some talented live musicians.

Awesome suggestion! Anything else along these lines. I'd love to go dancing somewhere like we dance at a wedding - live band just doing covers with all the favs. Does this exist?

As for the other suggestions:
We already have sex a couple times a week and we have friends over to go to their places once a week. We were trying to find more going out type-things. But thanks!

[Anonymous]

There's an 80s cover band called The Legwarmers that plays at the State Theatre in Falls Church. I've never seen them, but they look fun. Has anyone been? I think they're doing two weekend shows in the middle of March.

We also love shows at the Birchmere and Iota in Arlington.

[Anonymous]

No, we don't, and I've been really pissed about it. (I make suggestions, DH never agrees or follows through.) It will be the end or the death of our marriage if it continues, but I can't get DH to see that.

[Anonymous]

We've got only 1 laptop in the house, so if we want to do something, we do it together. We also don't have cable, so the few TV shows we watch, we watch on the computer. We have to snuggle up to see the screen together.

We also try to go out to dinner once every few weeks - though we go through phases of being very good, and phases of not. Now that the youngest is 2 we are much better than we were for the past few years. It just takes time to get out of that baby rut!

[Anonymous]

We have dinner out and get liquored up, walk to get ice cream afterwards, hold hands, giggle alot and don't talk about the kids. We live near the metro so that's all a possibility. We like going to the U Street corridor, Penn Quarter, and Dupont for this. There's plenty of places with music and window shopping that's fun.

[Anonymous]

We are laptop and chores after bedtime . . . we have no family to help out. So, it is hard. A $30 movie turns into $60 with a babysitter included.

Love my DD but def a major buzzkill in the adult entertainment department. And, I do not like it at all!