DIY Babysitter Binder for Nights Out and Romantic Getaways

Once you have kids it gets harder to have nights out with your husband. There are practices, parties, and more in addition to the day to day responsibilities. It’s not that you don’t want to spend time away with your spouse but at the end of the day you are exhausted. When you finally get a night out you are pre-occupied with how the kids are. You worry about everything going smoothly for them and the sitter. We’ve already covered how to get the conversation going with these Marriage Conversation Cards. Now we’re tackling your piece of mind with this DIY babysitter binder.

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Make stress-free nights out with your husband possible with this DIY babysitter binder! You can enjoy your time together without worrying about your kids.

 

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Make stress-free nights out with your husband possible with this DIY babysitter binder! You can enjoy your time together without worrying about your kids.

Materials

 

Make stress-free nights out with your husband possible with this DIY babysitter binder! You can enjoy your time together without worrying about your kids.

Step 1

First print out your binder cover and an important kids information printable for each of your children.

 

Make stress-free nights out with your husband possible with this DIY babysitter binder! You can enjoy your time together without worrying about your kids.

Step 2

Next, place the binder cover in the front of your empty binder.

Step 3

Then punch holes in your remaining printables.

 

Make stress-free nights out with your husband possible with this DIY babysitter binder! You can enjoy your time together without worrying about your kids.

Step 4

After your printables are punched, add them to your binder.

 

Make stress-free nights out with your husband possible with this DIY babysitter binder! You can enjoy your time together without worrying about your kids.

Make stress-free nights out with your husband possible with this DIY babysitter binder! You can enjoy your time together without worrying about your kids.

Step 5

Next, add your 2-pocket folder to the binder.

Tip:

  • Use this for storing pizza money, surprise coloring sheets, or other items that will change or be replaced.

 

Make stress-free nights out with your husband possible with this DIY babysitter binder! You can enjoy your time together without worrying about your kids.

Step 6

Lastly, fill out the information in the printables.

 

Make stress-free nights out with your husband possible with this DIY babysitter binder! You can enjoy your time together without worrying about your kids.

Additional Information to Include

There is additional information to include in your DIY babysitter binder when planning a getaway with your husband. Whether you are hiring a sitter or leaving your kids in the care of family, it is always nice to provide important information. You can grab a free copy of the entire 12-page babysitter binder on our VIP page for subscribers. You can also fill out your own blank paper with these additional ideas:

 

 

Make stress-free nights out with your husband possible with this DIY babysitter binder! You can enjoy your time together without worrying about your kids.

With this DIY babysitter binder it is easier to make stress-free nights out with your husband possible. You can relax and enjoy your precious time together without worrying about your kiddos. Throw in an extra date night idea and spend an evening in planning a romantic getaway. Even if you can’t do it for a few months, it is still a fun way to spend an evening together. Don’t forget that you can snag the 12-page babysitter binder printable for free when you subscribe to the newsletter. Until your next night out, check out these Lego Date Night Ideas you can enjoy at home! When is the last time you got away with your husband? Let me know in the comments!

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Make stress-free nights out with your husband possible with this DIY babysitter binder! You can enjoy your time together without worrying about your kids.

Lego Date Night Ideas

On Tuesday you saw the awesome Art of the Brick Date Night post (and if you didn’t, you should totally check it out). It is possible, though, that you can’t go. This could be because the exhibit isn’t going to be at a city near you. It could also simply be that you don’t have a sitter readily available. Fear not! Just because you can’t visit the exhibit doesn’t mean that you have to miss out on the fun. Here are five awesome Lego date night ideas that you can enjoy right at home!

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Get in on the fun even if you can't visit the Art of the Brick exhibit. Here are five awesome Lego date night ideas that you can enjoy right at home!

 

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Get in on the fun even if you can't visit the Art of the Brick exhibit. Here are five awesome Lego date night ideas that you can enjoy right at home!

Create Lego Art

You can keep with the Art of the Brick theme and try to create your own art. Find a picture of a famous work of art online. Have a decent selection of Legos available for this. Next, you and your husband try to recreate the work of art. Guaranteed that even if your works of art totally such, you will still have a great time with a lot of laughs. If that seems too ambitious for you, here are a couple of other options for creating Lego art are:

Movie Night

Have a movie night with your husband and watch The Lego Movie. Complete the night with Lego themed treats like these:

If you really want to go all out, put pink and blue streaks in your hair and give hubs an orange construction vest like Emmet wears.

Play a Lego Game

Have you played any of the Lego board games yet? Some of them are pretty awesome. My absolute favorite is Creationary because of the creativity involved but there are others that are fun, too. Here are a few awesome ones to get you started:

Lego Pirate Code: This is a logic game in which you try to guess your opponents’ codes before they guess yours.

Lego Magikus: This one is a very simple game with the end goal to cast your magic spell first.

Lego Kingdoms Chess Set: If you want to keep it classic, you can’t go wrong with Lego chess. This set is a little pricey but amazingly cool.

 

Get in on the fun even if you can't visit the Art of the Brick exhibit. Here are five awesome Lego date night ideas that you can enjoy right at home!

Catapults

This is a fun activity is you want to test your creative genius as well as add some friendly competition. Each of you builds a catapult using only Legos and rubber bands. Next, set your creations side by side and launch a mini figure. The person whose mini figure goes the furthest is the winner. After the competition, try building a super-catapult together. See if you can launch a mini figure across the living room as a team.

Assemble a Kit

This is actually a team-building exercise sometimes used in couple’s therapy. Find a Lego kit to put together as a team. If you’re not super Lego builders, it is perfectly okay to start with a Duplo kit. Try to choose one that is difficult enough to warrant reading the instructions to build it. Outside of that, anything goes.

 

Get in on the fun even if you can't visit the Art of the Brick exhibit. Here are five awesome Lego date night ideas that you can enjoy right at home!

Now you have no excuse not to have an awesome Lego date night with your husband. The best part is that if you invest in a couple of these items now, you can use them for multiple date nights. If you have kids at home, you likely already own a ton of Legos. That makes these some cheap and super cheap and easy date night idea! Find other date night ideas on our Marriage page!

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Art of the Brick Date Night

You already know that date nights are important. They allow you to reconnect with your husband and get away from the demands of everyday life. However, you may also believe that these date nights should always be something that you both already enjoy. In fact, it can be better for your relationship to push outside of your comfort zone. The easiest way to do this is to take turns with your husband when it comes to choosing date night activities. Not only will you possibly find new hobbies to enjoy together but you will also help foster feelings of valuableness in your relationship. This exact strategy is how I discovered (and fell in love with) Lego art when my husband’s choice took us to Art of the Brick.

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Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

 

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Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

Art of the Brick

Admittedly, I didn’t do any research on the exhibit before we went. I assumed it was about how Legos were made and the kits were designed. Boy was I wrong. It is in fact a gorgeous art exhibit from the artist, Nathan Sawaya. (If you can’t make it to see the exhibit in person, you can check out his book here.) It is broken up into sections that house like themes of art with each section magnificent in its own right.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

**The following categories are simply the names I have given the sections for the purpose of division within this post.

 

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

Classic Recreations

Having studied art and art history, I was blown away by how he recreated famous works of art. He even took into account texture as with the cave painting below.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

 

Sculptures

The feat of creating these sculptures is absolutely incredible. Not simply that they are instantly recognizable by those familiar with them but also that they are structurally sound. These are not small sculptures by any means. In fact, you can see amazing scale of them in some of the photos.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

 

 

Realism

To recreate real-life structures is extremely difficult. We see the items every day and because of this, you recognize flaws in them more easily. However, these pieces are all incredible.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

 

Abstract

The best part of all of the abstract art is the explanations that went along with the pieces. Nathan uses his art to express a keen insight into human nature.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

 

Dark

This section, while equally as insightful as the abstract, seemed a bit dark for young children. There are sculptures that have their faces removed or skulls on the wall. While the meanings behind them are very true representations, the images themselves could be unsettling for little ones.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

 

Photography

This is a fascinating concept that I had never seen before. Nathan created Lego sculptures of items that a photographer then Photo shopped into staged photographs. My absolute favorite was the red dress however all of it is stunning and impressive.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

 

 

 

Uncategorized

There were a few exhibits that didn’t really fall into any category and we contained on their own. I personally love that he included a nod to Cincinnati (which is where we saw the exhibit). I don’t know if he does this for every city but it would be neat to see the creations if he does.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

 

Tips for Attending

 

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

Pushing outside of your comfort zone on date night can help your marriage. I fell in love with Lego art on our Art of the Brick date night.

If this exhibit comes anywhere near you I absolutely recommend visiting it. The stunning exhibits and ambient setting make it perfect for a date night. You will also learn more about your husband and possibly about yourself. You will find out what types of art truly draw each of you in. You will discover which facts about the pieces are interesting to each of you. You may even be like me and learn that you are in fact a giant weepy girl when you start crying happy tears at the kids’ displayed creations at the end of the main exhibits. If you want more fun Lego date ideas, check back on Thursday for Lego date ideas that you can have right at home.

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