{"id":246912,"date":"2020-03-19T11:24:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T16:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/couple-time"},"modified":"2020-03-19T11:24:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T16:24:17","slug":"couple-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/couple-time","title":{"rendered":"Couple Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, my wife and I got a babysitter and went out to celebrate a friend&rsquo;s birthday.<\/p>\n<p>This picture was made on the metro on the way to dinner. That&rsquo;s my decidedly less glittery hand holding up Mom and Buried&#8217;s phone so she can properly apply her eyeliner( I usurp it&#8217;s heart liner? Don&rsquo;t@ me !). <\/p>\n<p>For the record: she affirms she didn&rsquo;t realize the scarf joined her iPhone case, and I believe her, because she impulsively grabbed the scarf as we hastened out the door. She had to do her makeup on the G civilize; we weren&rsquo;t working with a lot of time! But we&rsquo;re mothers. <\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;re never working with a lot of time.<\/p>\n<p> Especially when we&rsquo;re trying to do some duet time to ourselves.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"children\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dadandburied.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/polka-dots.jpg?resize=240%2C300\" alt=\"children\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-25558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dadandburied.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/polka-dots.jpg?resize=240%2C300 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dadandburied.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/polka-dots.jpg?resize=768%2C960 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dadandburied.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/polka-dots.jpg?resize=819%2C1024 819w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dadandburied.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/polka-dots.jpg?w=1512 1512w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dadandburied.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/polka-dots.jpg?w=1460 1460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Mom and Buried is always angling for <a href=\"http:\/\/dadandburied.com\/2016\/05\/05\/date-night\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">date nighttimes<\/a> for that very reason. It&rsquo;s important for us- and all parents- to have some non-parent time, and it&rsquo;s important for spouses to have some non-parent time together.<\/p>\n<p>But it&rsquo;s not easy.<\/p>\n<p>Kids fetching a good deal to their own lives: affection and light and joy and modesty and blah blah blah. They too* take out* a lot, particularly <a href=\"http:\/\/dadandburied.com\/2019\/04\/22\/expensive\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">money<\/a>, energy, and season. All three of which are helpful, if not necessary, a number of aspects of a successful time night.<\/p>\n<p>On this night, we absolved ourselves pretty well. We went to see a neat dinner at a trendy , non-child-friendly restaurant, we fulfilled up with friends, had some cocktails, some of us danced a great deal, one of us frisked pinball while others of us danced a great deal( shut up, I danced a little too !), and, eventually, we received a text from our babysitter asking us to come home because she was tired.<\/p>\n<p>The appropriateness( or not) of that verse digression, it was fine. We were manager residence regardles- &#8220;were just&#8221; tired too, and the babysitter was already expensive fairly without supplementing another hour to her fee.<\/p>\n<p>But it goes to show you how small-time our space is.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you&rsquo;re <a href=\"http:\/\/dadandburied.com\/2014\/06\/20\/babysitters-make-me-nervous\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hiring a babysitter<\/a> for a date darknes, or putting on a TV depict so you can sneak away for a little afternoon thrill, or you&#8217;re catnap while they siesta( i.e. cleaning, labor, doing laundry, while they nap ), moms and papas don&rsquo;t have numerous opportunities to not be mommas and dads.<\/p>\n<p>And because one of you often takes the hit for the other and remains dwelling with the kids( rather than shell out for a babysitter ), spouses and spouses have even fewer an important opportunity to tone time together.<\/p>\n<p>We parents, particularly those of us with younger kids, don&rsquo;t have the comfort of a lot of time to ourselves, so where reference is do, we&#8217;re forced to maximize the blaze out of it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not easy. Maybe you&#8217;re broke, perhaps you&#8217;re spent, perhaps you don&#8217;t generally enjoy going to disco dance parties, maybe a good childcare is hard to find, maybe all of those things.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/dadandburied.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/best-thing-ecard-300x166.jpg?resize=300%2C166\" alt=\"no kids, reasons to have kids, best thing that&#039;s ever happened to me, parenting, parenthood, moms, dads, children, family, kids, fatherhood, funny, humor\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-23766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dadandburied.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/best-thing-ecard.jpg?resize=300%2C166 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dadandburied.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/best-thing-ecard.jpg?w=402 402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Hopefully in 2019 you can still find a way to get that adult occasion, catch a breaking from the kids, and get a breather.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes that may mean stay up too late on a weeknight to have some time to yourself, and sometimes it may mean inadvertently grabbing a scarf that joins your phone as you run out the door and realizing your spouse help you properly apply your makeup on the metro so you don&#8217;t waste prized babysitter time! <\/p>\n<p>( Also for the record, she gaped immense without it more .) <\/p>\n<p>This post initially flowed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DadandBuried\/posts\/2083169658408407\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/dadandburied.com\/2019\/08\/16\/couple-time\/\">Couple Time<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/dadandburied.com\">Dad and Buried<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/dadandburied.com\/2019\/08\/16\/couple-time\/\">dadandburied.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, my wife and I got a babysitter and went out to celebrate a friend&rsquo;s birthday. 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