Date Idea #3: French night! Spend the evening together learning how to speak French.
As much as we'd like to go out every single date night, it's not always practical- especially with a kid. We can't always find (or pay!) for a babysitter. That is why I included several at-home date nights in our dating jar. This is one of them.
Dave and I have always been interested in French culture. When we met, he told me that he wanted to move there one day and I am all about that! We're thinking of settling down in the Palace of Versailles. We've also tried to learn French before, but eventually slacked off and forgot about it. So when we pulled this idea out of the date jar, Dave was really excited to do it.
The way I suggest to do this is to go to your local library and rent a "listen and learn" language kit. They are so easy to use and it helps to hear and repeat the words that you are trying to learn. So Dave and I went to our local library and it sucks. Not one single listen and learn kit there. Good thing we have iPhones! We found an app that taught us French phrases and vocabulary. Then it would give us quizzes on the words that we had learned. It was fun to try and speak those foreign sounds and then help eachother on the quizzes. And it always helps when you spend your entire date cuddling under a Snuggie. But the most fun we had was probably with Google Translator (which is just found on the internet, not our phones). We would type in English phrases and it would translate them into French for us. We thoroughly enjoyed the French translation of the song, "I'm sexy and I know it".
In hind sight, it would have really added to the French night if I had made a French dinner. Oh well. Feel free to improve and/or add your own twist to my date ideas. Gear it more towards what you and your spouse would enjoy. That's what makes it fun!
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