“Reinvent date night” proclaims the New York Times (on February 14th, “heart day” no less): Doing something different, exciting and new is, for long-married couples, the “simple prescription for rekindling the romantic love that brought [you] together in the first place.”

Don’t know about you, but “going out,” on a “date” or not is a fairly novel occurrence for us, due to a few reasons.

First is the perennial Finding a Babysitter problem. Over the years, we’ve had two great babysitters who we called frequently in order to attend school meetings or even (more rarely) to go out for dinner. One was …read more