Do you do girl's night out?

winery

Do you go out with your girlfriends for dinner/drinks/etc. on a regular basis? 

I like going out with a girlfriend or two at a time and catching a movie (especially chick flicks MH doesn't care to see), but I don't really want to spend a Friday night sitting around a bar, drinking with a group of women.

If I have the opportunity to go out, I'd rather go have drinks with MH, kwim?

I have plenty of girlfriends who do this, and they even have girly weekends and their husbands go away with their friends for chunks of time too.  I don't understand this.  I like MH a lot and want to spend as much time with him as possible.  And if I were going to take a trip, I'd want it to be with him. 

Am I the oddity?

~Kat~

A few times I have gotten together with a few friends on a weeknight just a someone's house. I would much rather do that then "waste" a Friday night at a bar without DH.

Amanda&Chris

Well, most of my friends are still single and/or don't have kids so when I go out with them we usually go to a bar or for dinner and drinks at a restaurant.  They hang out with my family too, but I like going out with them as well.

We also have couple friends that we do stuff with and I like to go out with just MH, but I don't mind going out with the girls once in awhile.  And MH sometimes goes out with just the guys.

I don't have a set girls night or anything, but when the opportunity arises I usually take it.

gracendantho26

Every Wednesday night a group of us (anywhere from two of us to usually 4 to 6 of us) get together at the pub. We are all moms of 5 year old girls except one of us who is single...though she lives in SF so she makes it sporadically. So yes I have a standing date with my group of girlfriends once a week.

eclaires

I do occasionally, but mostly with friends who are either single or don't have kids - and who we aren't both friends with.  That's how we hung out pre-Jackson, so it makes sense to continue that when we can. Although we usually go to a local place on Thursdays if we meet up, so it's not a Friday night thing - and we usually meet at 5:30, so I'm home around 10 or so.

But we also go out with our mutual friends, and we're totally odd in that we have a babysitter whenever we need one and for free.  As much as my in laws can drive me crazy, it certainly makes deciding to go out for an evening easy.  We don't do it very often (either alone or together), but it's stress free and no hassle when we do because he can spend the night there and we can go get him in the afternoon after the hangover wears off. 

REOM

I LOVE girls night out!

But it's not standing around a bar on a Friday, or fighting our way into a club anymore. We love to get together for dinner along with a few bottles of wine, and chat about our families, lives, etc. We enjoy each other's company, and friendship is important to us.

My H also has a lot of friends, and these relationships bring a lot of fun and opportunities to our marriage. And now our friends are having kids, and it is fun for our daughter too.

gracendantho26

I should add that when we go out it's not a night that I could go out with my husband so it doesn't seem like I am hanging out with them versus him. He puts the kids to bed and is here on Wed. night while I am out..it's not like he could be out with me and I don't want him with me. We go on dates nights a few times a month and we hang out together a lot after the kids go to bed so it's not like I don't like my DH so I go out with my friends instead. That is kind of reaching. I adore my DH and I adore my friends. It's a win/win.

winery

We do movies and lunches, but not dinners without eveyone.

But I also spend a lot of time with my friends and their kids during the day, so when the evening comes and MH is available to be with me and the kids, I'd rather do that.

But, they keep inviting me out for happy hour and since you all go, maybe there's something there that I would enjoy.  I'll check it out, but I think I'm still drawing the line at a vacation without MH.  For right now, anyway.

UGAbride

I don't have standing or regular plans or anything like that, but I do get out a few times a month if I can.  There are a lot of impromptu gatherings in the neighborhood, so most weekends either of us can find something to do that way (BIG partiers around here).  I actually feel I really have to push DH out the door to go do stuff with his friends sometimes, he just doesn't make the plans.

I am more likely to make dinner/chick flick plans more than anything with the girls, but that's enough for me!

Zenya

I have book club 1/mo which is a semi-boozy affair.  I LOVE to go out and don't do it enough.  Am  going to NY in a couple of weeks (also went some weeks ago) and it's bliss to just watch lifetime TV and drink wine. 

We don't like to leave our kids overnight so to get extended kid free time, I need to leave DH.  But that's just part of it.  There is a side of me that just inhales girl-time.  And alone time.

AngelaSue

Never. I'd much rather do stuff my with my husband or with my husband and the kids. I had a girls day with my girlfriend about a month ago, we had pedi's and lunch and she had to go home early because her baby was sick. But I can't remember the last time I did something like that.

ali-1411

I go out for drinks with friends on a regular basis.  I would never call it girls night though. 

Brewster

Yes, I totally do still do girl's night.  Not often (especially now),  but when we go out we usually do our own things.  It makes going out a little cheaper b/c we don't have to pay a sitter. 

I guess it is just whatever floats your boat.