routines

[Csara]

For lack of a better word, what are some of yours and your spouse's little routines that you seem to do all the time just the two of you? i.e. coffee in the morning, tea or a glass of wine at night once the kids have gone to bed, a walk around your neighborhood, reading the newspaper together on sunday mornings, etc.

[IUgrad02]

Once our baby is in bed, we watch TV together at night, either downstairs with the monitor on or upstairs in our bed. That is our together time. We sometimes lie on the couch together and snuggle.
Pre-baby, we would eat dinner each night and then take a walk around the neighborhood and talk about our future, etc. We also used to take short weekend trips or plan new vacations, etc... but now we do a lot less of that since riding in the car is not nearly as fun for a 7 month old as it is for us (he's not sleeping in the car like he used to! argh..how nice it was to have an infant sleeping all the time when we drove... not any more!!) We still go on walks w/ our dog and son, but they are not as often as they used to be.
We also used to go to movies and dinners more frequently. My how times change when you have a baby. I'm sure we can get back to doing all of this at some point. For now, we are tickled pink to have this "inconvenient" baby that keeps us from going out on the town...Haha.

[Deana]

we always have dinner together (well, almost every night, some nights dh has to work late or is at the gym) and we try to put N to bed together. During the week we don't have a lot of 'snuggle' time -- after N goes to bed, I finish up dinner dishes. Dh gets on work email from about 9:00pm-10:00 pm just so he isn't overwhelmed w/email every morning (he works for an international company so he gets a ton of email at all hours).

On the weekends, we almost always watch a movie together and split a bottle of red

[tommysgirl18]

goodness......we are boring.....I don't think we have done something just the two of us since Marissa was born. well, besides sharing the same bed...that it is.

we really need to work on this!

before kids though, we used to always do something together. whether it was watching tv, eating dinner, going shopping, etc. the last time we did something together, was when we had a date night. which was for a couple of hours, about a month ago. (so maybe we have done something since Marissa was born that was without kids)

[B'sgirl]

Currently, we IM each other periodically throughout the day. Then DH comes home and we have dinner together. Then we pretty much tag-team trying to get B to go to bed.

We used to watch movies, read books, or do yard work together after B went to bed. Hopefully we will get back to that soon. (Blasted teeth!)

[anjelfire62]

My husband and I have a strict routine which consists of taking turns doing cooking, laundry, bathing the baby, cleaning the fish tank, cleanihng the oven, going to work,etc. However, our routine may be broken on occasion, due to prearranged plans or ome sporadic turn of events. Although I think a routine is imperative, I also think occasional, spontaneous fun is an important component in not living on a monotnous schedule.

[HeavenLeigh]

Ha, we have none. Everything seems soooo routine, but as far as having routines....nope. We never do anything together on a regular basis. The tv shows I like, he doesn't vice versa. We have different sleep schedules, wake up times, interests, etc....
It doesn't bother me. I wish we were more in tune with one another, but oh well. I have my life to live, he has his. After having my ex H's nose burried in my for 8 years, that's the way I like it

[mistressmambo]

when he comes home from work, we'll have coffee and a buttered roll together while watching some dvd or a show that we recorded on dvr.

[Caolen]

Hm me and my partner speak on the phone on his breaks, then usually we try to spend time watching a movie once a week, or playing a game, something along those lines, as i have took up avon lately he comes around with me making sure i am ok so that is a nice spending time together.