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[quote=Anonymous]Do a mini staycation. It's the easiest way. Take a day off when your kids are all at school/daycare, and have your nanny stay for the evening as well. Then get lunch and dinner reservations, go to a museum, see a movie, go to a brewery or vineyard, etc. Do the kinds of things you'd do on vacation with your spouse, just do them locally.

We do this every year for our anniversary and then 2-3 other times just for fun. It's the best of both worlds because you get a break from parenting but you don't have to stress about something happening while you are away and needing to cut short a vacation to deal with it, or worrying about how well your kids are doing with whoever they are staying with. Your kids get to have a pretty normal day, with the one difference that they will eat dinner and do bedtime with your nanny instead of you. Not a huge sacrifice on their end, your nanny gets some extra cash, and you get some kid free time.

I also recommend cultivating friendships with people who have same age kids and seeing if they'd be interested in trading sleepover nights. Though if you have 3 or more that's hard and you might have to work with more than one family to make it work, which is logistically annoying. But with one or two kids, this is such an easy way to get a quick getaway with your spouse. You do, of course, need to be willing to host their kids sometimes too. But with our family friends, this isn't a burden -- it's actually nice because our kids generally behave better when they have guests and are occupied and need less entertaining from us. Win-win.[/quote]

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