If you follow my personal site, you know that my kids have gone to Grandma’s house this week. My Step mom called a few weeks ago and said that she wanted the kids to come and visit. I told her that we had planned to come to see her as a family, but she quickly clarified her request. She wanted the kids to come to her house for a visit. Without my husband and I.

We have never had this happen before. We went to Mexico a year ago February and left the kids with family, but apart from that our kid-free time consists of Date Nights out on the town.

To be at home without the kids around is awesome, yes, but also a little bit weird. They left with Grandma on Sunday at lunch time, and less than two hours later we had left the house as well. We had already planned on a night out, but we were both so out of sorts with them not being around that we left for our date two hours earlier than planned.

We’re now a couple of days in to our hiatus (which will end in two more days) and I am happy to announce that we are faring better. My husband is running a basketball camp in the mornings but our afternoons and evenings are free to spend together without any responsibilities except to just enjoy each other.

We have had numerous uninterrupted conversations and plenty of “alone time.”

Ahem.

I suppose we could have made more elaborate plans for our afternoons and evenings, but we’re more than happy to putter around here and just be.

What do you like to do when you have kid-free time?