6 Years (Although I Should Get Credit for all 9)

Last week was mine and Andy's sixth wedding anniversary (although I like to take credit for the 9 1/2 years we've been together). We rarely exchange gifts and our celebrations are usually quiet, subtle, and private (just like our wedding!).

This year, I didn't have expectations for celebration of any kind. I had a doctors appointment that afternoon which ran super late and Andy and I are both so busy at work. We both rushed to daycare, unsure if either of us would make it before daycare closed (and started charging us $1/min for every minute late). We made it in the nick of time and ended up standing just outside the daycare door, with kids and stuff in hand, feeling frazzled, cold, and hungry.

Then Andy said, "Let's go out to eat for our anniversary! Anywhere you want to go...Wendy's, McDonald's, Subway, anywhere!" (I know that doesn't sound romantic to most of you, but if you know Andy - we NEVER go out to eat - and we were exhausted and starving - holding two little munchkins who needed dinner ASAP...Wendy's sounded warm, fast, and pretty darn romantic to me :)

So we ate a warm, fast, and very romantic dinner at Wendy's. It's even like the kids knew it was a special night and both were oh so well behaved through out the entire meal. Of course, the restaurant was empty, so there were no strangers there to observe how perfectly behaved our children were (and therefore what amazing parents we are).

Then, just as we were about to head home, Andy said, "Let's go see a movie. I'll call your parents right now and see if they will meet us at our house and stay with the kids." I don't think Andy and I have been out to the movies since 2007 (again, if you know Andy, this makes sense to you). Anyway, we did call my parents, they did graciously, and on such short notice, babysit. Andy and I put on our sweats and went to a movie!

There was an obviously new couple standing in the theather lobby as Andy and I were waiting to buy our tickets. They were dressed up for their date and having a painfully awkward conversation about the first time he saw snow as a teenager.

It made Andy and I feel so fortunate for our sixth-anniversary-Wendy's-dinner-with-our-kids-and-movie-in-our-sweats-(without our kids) celebration.