Private Time when you have little ones.

A recent episode on the Little Bill show "Private Time" hit home for us.  This episode discussed the importance of having private time with your spouse, friends and family.  Forgive me if I have the character's mixed up a little.  I'm not a regular watcher of this show and just happened to catch it in the middle of the show.

Little Bill and the older woman on the show (his grandmother?) were in the living room with his parents and a song came on the radio and the mommy told the daddy that was their song and invited him to dance with her.  The older woman signaled for her and Little Bill to go in the other room.  Little Bill didn't want to leave and they all had to explain to him that the parent's wanted their private time.

This reminded me of the day my  husband and I were leaving to go on our Apple Pie Date.  DJ was very adamant on going with us he even went as far as going to get his shoes and ran to jump in the carseat.  We had to break it down to him that this was our time together and this was his time to spend with his big sister.  Yeah right, he was not trying to hear it.  He wanted to go on the Apple Pie Date too and threw an almighty.

After Danyelle wrangled him from the carseat and we were on our way, we promised to bring him something back.  After that night, we decided to have a heart to heart with him and to explain that mommy and daddy need our private time away and it doesn't always mean we will bring him something back.

I'm not sure he understood any of it because when it's time for us to go on our Apple Pie Date, DJ starts off with the same routine of trying to go with us.  Now that we're here in Florida and Danyelle doesn't live here anymore, we have to get a little more creative with trying to find quality and private time together once the kids are in bed.

Our new challenge is keeping him in the bed because now he gets out of his bed to come and ask why are we still up watching TV, playing a game or whatever it is that we're doing.  Next step we will be LOCKING our door to keep him out.  Sounds harsh but, not really sure how to get him to understand that this is our PRIVATE time and it's time for him to go to bed.

Wish us luck.

Please leave us a comment on how you work it out in your home to have PRIVATE time with your significant other.  We'd love to get some creative ideas on how to maintain this tradition without DJ feeling left out.  Thank you.