Family life can be full of little happy moments that are each plenty fulfilling on their own. However, when you’re talking about a family that includes a long term relationship between mummy and daddy, it’s not difficult to find that time for each other becomes more precious. Yet, you’ve eaten so many meals and watched so much stuff together, that simply doing it again might not feel like a date at all. 

If you’ve got a babysitter for the kid(s), then make sure you make good use of the time you’ve freed up. Here are some ideas.

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Get out and explore

If you’re looking for an excellent day time date, then pack a picnic and get on a local nature trail or explore some natural beauty. You can even rent a bike and go on a biking tour. If you live in a city, you don’t necessarily have to go to the park, you can see parts of the town you’ve previously missed, too.

Go try a new competitive activity

What’s more fun that adding a little competitive edge and teasing (or being teased) when winning or losing at a game? So long as your partner isn’t a little too competitive, going out for an afternoon of mini-golf, bowling, or even pool can be lots of good natured fun. You can even try something like axe throwing for something different. It also shows you have enough skill with bladed weapons to not get messed with. Just kidding… mostly.

Learn something new together

If you’re not feeling competitive, how about getting collaborative? There’s something lovely about trying and learning a new skill. Maybe it’s because you’re being vulnerable around each other, leaving room to mess up and to improve at the same time. Sculpting classes, drawing classes, cookery courses, it doesn’t matter what it is.

Check out your local museum or art gallery

You don’t have to be an art buff or a history major to get a little something out of museums and art. They’re there for broadening your horizons and for learning a little something new. Plus, when you’re exploring them with someone you’re totally comfortable with, you have the room to make all the little comments and jokes that come into your head but might be a little too weird to share them with someone else. These kinds of places are best explored with someone who gets you.

Become kids again

It doesn’t have to be quite so serious or stuffy, either. Whether you feel like you want to bring your inner child or you’ve always just been a big kid doing adult stuff, take a break and hit up a local arcade or amusement park. There’s nothing quite like a bit of genuine laughter amongst the lights and sounds that, as adults, we don’t get enough time for.

Are there any date ideas that have been helping to keep your relationship fun and exciting even now that you’ve long got used to each other?