Patch Picks: Date Night

Five ways to change up your date night routine.

Are you tired of "dinner-and-a-movie?" Looking for new date night options? The Rockville area has many great alternatives. Here are a few:

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'Cheap' Dates

A financially-friendly date night can be awesome and leave dough in your pocket

It’s no secret that times are tough for many families, so planning a fancy-schmancy night out on the town with your sweetie may not be an option for you two this Valentine's Day. By the time you add the cost of a sitter and a dinner for two—complete with some vino and dessert—you could be talking really big bucks. Especially if you feel the need to pick up a new pair of shoes or a cute shirt to kick up your wardrobe for your big date, it may put a serious strain on your wallet. But there’s no need to for money to be the reason that you can’t get out for a quiet night come Valentine’s Day. Options abound for a romantic and inexpensive date-night for two, even when times are tight.  Here are some ways to kick up a date night when you’re …

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Amy Mascott

11:17 am on Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Thanks, Jess--any more ideas, send them our way! xo   more ›

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The Evolution of Date Night

Date night takes on a new look when you’re married with kids, but that doesn’t lessen its importance.

My husband and I met on a blind date.  Set up by his mother.  Only about three weeks after I moved to Maryland, way back when he and I were first-year teachers, only months out of college. We met. And fell in love. And we dated and dated and dated.  And that first date—that whole first year of dates—was something vastly different than our dates now, our dates as a couple married nine years with three kids and a dog. And a house in the suburbs. And a minivan. Did we know then, on that very first night, that 12 years later we’d be right smack dab in the trenches of parenting?Already out of the bottles and diapers era, having just moved through the sippy cup stage, rockin’ and rollin’ with two kids in preschool and one in first grade? No, no …

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