January 29, 2000 I married my best friend. Sure we've had some ups and downs but we are still best friends!
This past weekend we celebrated our 12 year anniversary! Saturday night we dropped the kids off at the babysitting co-op (see explanation below) and then headed to dinner at the Olive Garden restaurant. When we got to the restaurant the wait time was over an hour so we decided to go next door to On the Border which only had a 25-30 minute wait. We enjoyed good food and conversation and then headed back to pick up the kids. When we got to the babysitting co-op hosts house we were asked if the kids could spend the night - we allowed it and returned Sunday morning for pick up! We had a nice weekend relaxing and being with each other. It was a very nice anniversary celebration!
BABYSITTING CO-OP: There are 4 couples from my church and we take turns watching the kids. We have it set up that each Saturday is assigned to a family, the other 3 families can take their kids over about 6-ish and then the parents go off to do something fun and return about 10 or 11. It works out great! 3 out of 4 Saturday nights we can have date night if we choose to and then one Saturday each month we host at our house and have all the kids there. In total there are 11 kids in this co-op! That's a lot of kids - and yet it works out because they all get along so well together! This first month of the co-op was terrific. We didn't go out one of the evenings because of sick kids but the other 2 Saturdays we did go out and then we hosted once at our house. I have to say that this has been so wonderful for the kids too, they are enjoying being with their friends and playing, watching movies, crafting and cooking together! It has been a great thing for our family!
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