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Dating with Children – 3 Dates With the Kiddos

I HIGHLY suggest that you make a point of getting away together with your man, by yourselves, at least a couple of times a month. HOWEVER – sometimes the only way you can date is accompanied by some of the shorter people in your family.

So I asked readers of my newsletter what some of their favorite kid dates were. Here are just some of my favorite answers… (more to come over the next couple of posts.)

We have several things that we do with our kids in tow, but I have one favorite date in...

Real Men Date (and apparently get facials)

We are continuing with our cheap dates week and I want to show you what one clever blogger did with the dating kit that I sent her.  Check out Spotted Smiles Blog to see the VERY creative way of using the dating kit. (It required her husband to get a facial – and I am glad to say he was man enough to do it!) It is worth going over to her blog and read all about it!!

Have you entered our dating contest? You could win some very big prizes! Check out this blog post and see how to enter!

What Your Babysitter Wish You Would Have Told Them…

My assistant, Monica, has been doing a lot of babysitting recently for many families from her church, for friends and friends of friends.  I've asked her to write a little about what babysitters wish the parents would have done/told her.
Recently I have been doing a lot of babysitting.  I went from doing it about once a month to 2-3 times a week.  I have absolutely loved it as it lets me get to know the kids better from church (I'm the Children's Ministry Director) and it lets me get to be a p...

Six Dates for Under Seven Dollars

The second most noted reason for not dating besides the lack of a babysitter was the cost of dating. So here is a quick list of ideas for dating on a budget:

Have some cut of meat in the deep freeze? Find a recipe that has some ingredients you already have on hand and then challenge yourself to make a fab dessert for under $7. cooking together is prefered.  Look at this recipe for Velvet Painting Pie from A Daily Recipe Blog. Um. yum.

Two reasonably Tall Drinks at Starbucks.

 

Three Redbox...

Question For You: Instructions for the Babysitter

There has been some great advice and tips given so far this week.  Today's question is, what do you leave for the babysitter?  Do you leave a list with the important information and detailed schedule of the kids routine?  Do you just toss out some pj's?  Are snacks and dinner planned out?   Are you lucky enough to have people who know your family so well they have the whole routine down?

What do you leave for your babysitters?

How to Start a Babysitting Co-op

How many of you are participants in a babysitting co-op?  If you are not (or have never heard of one) are you interested in starting one in your neighborhood.  Below is the advice of some moms who have found babysitting co-ops to be invaluable.

Amy:

I've done 2 different types of babysitting swaps/co-ops. Both might not be considered a co-op because it's not a big group – but regardless, I love it and it works!

I have one friend that we swap kids/errands – she will watch the four kids while I...