Valentines’ Day is approaching. Many times, I write, journal, do facebook updates or blog about motherhood . God, however, tells us that after God, our husbands are suppose to have second place in our hearts and then our children. Therefore, I am writing a list of some of the things my husband and like to do on dates. We use to have date night every Friday. Now, we have dates at home, have family dates or get out occasionally for a couple date.
Date Ideas
- We create our own drive in outside (set up projector outside against garage)
- Go for a walk and feed the ducks and geese at the river (we do this as a couple and on family dates)
- Study God’s word together
- Read a book together
- Scrapbook memories
- Go to the local bookstore/coffee shop, each person picks a couple of books and comes back to the table and shares with each other what they chose. One time, my husband and I sat in the romance aisle looking for a good book together
- Go to a planetarium show at the Roberson
- Go to Kopernik and star gaze (great date)
- We take walks across the downtown bridge at night
- Write notes to family members and friends together
- Sit at the computer and look at all of our old photos
- Walk down Memory Lane: go to places where you first had dates. For Us, we have memories of Denny’s, nature preserve at Binghamton University, walks from BU to Walmart, inline skating.
- Picnics in the living room
- Bike rides
- Watch a sunset
- We love First Friday (downtown Binghamton)
- We make garbage pie/everything pizza or barbecue chicken pizza from scratch
- Paint a piece of pottery. We did a nice butterfly together.
- Make homemade cheesecake and iced coffee
- Head to the highest point in town and enjoy the view and the stars at night
- Write poems and read them to each other (my husband does this for me)
- Foot rubs (ok my husband does this more than me)
- Antique shops, garage sales or auctions
- Basketball challenges
- Go to a driving range
- Pillow fight after a movie and popcorn
- Get a pair of binoculars, head to finch hollow, take a long hike and look for birds
- Go on a photo shoot
- Make a time capsule and look at it in ten years
- Pray, worship and sing to God together
- Bake together
- Go Carts on Front Street
- Game it in Endicott, NY
- Go to Dennys and ask for a vanilla coke (they are so good)
- Bowling
- Chucky Cheese without the children and you have to play the games
- Cutler Garden on Front Street – take a stroll, look at the beautiful flowers in Spring/Summer and have a picnic in the Gazebo
- Play board games
- Pick berries and make jam/jelly together
- Make snow angels and then go inside for hot chocolate
- Scavenger hunts
- Short day trips – we just love exploring the New York State area and finding new, fun things to do. We do this as a family now and not just the two of us.
- Read joke books and laugh together (one of my husband’s favorite dates)
- Paddle boats at Nathaniel Cole Park
- Fly a kite (can even make a homemade kite together)
- Windy Hill Candle Factory - Port Crane, NY (we like smelling all the candles - well I do anyway). They also have a candy store there now too.
- Whole in the Wall - great healthy food and music
There are so many creative ideas you can do to build a stronger relationship with your spouse. Feel free to share some ideas.
