Our 5th Wedding Anniversary

Who says romance fades? For our fifth anniversary we had a romantic and sentimental evening planned. Marc, the owner/chef of the restaurant where our wedding reception was held recently opened up a new little bistro on the other side of town. We "planned" to drop the kids off at my sister's house and go have a nice quiet dinner at his restaurant - no not the same location as where we began, but the same staff, food and atmosphere. Well, with 3 kids, you always know that there is no such thing as a plan. A plan is more of a dream, option, or a possibility. My neice was getting over an illness and we didn't wanted to chance exposing the kids before Keira's birthday party. So, as we were loading the kids in the car to head to her house, I called her and got an update and decided to cancel the babysitting idea. We ended up taking the kids with us to dinner at Marc's restaurant. Mike wanted to change the plan to going to McDonald's, but I won. Surprisingly, the kids were the best they have ever been at a restaurant. As soon as Marc saw us (he didn't know that we were coming), he took over and treated us like royalty the entire night. He made a special 6 course meal with wine pairings for us. He even had his waitresses entertain the kids in the other room, so we could have a few moments to ourselves. It was heaven!!!It was actually the prefect way to spend our anniversary dinner, with our kids, as a family where it all started. We have a raincheck for the babysitting to celebrate a night out for our anniversary with just the two of us. Our family picture at the bistro, unfortunately, didn't turn out and is too blurry to post.