Belly Dancer's Nightcap

Five Years

In a little chapel in the Garden of the Gods

In the early years I remember talking with my husband about having another little wedding our family could attend on our fifth anniversary. Five years sounded so so far away. I pictured having a little boy who attended in a tiny kilt and bagpipers somehow mixed in there. Suddenly five years are here and four big brown eyes are staring up at us waiting for the evening's adventure. I no longer have the desire to have another wedding for family. I love our unconventional wedding story and our terrible wedding pictures taken with disposable cameras by members of my husband's platoon. It fits us and somehow it's what I always wanted. Our plans for the evening turned out to be running out during a break in the rain and sleet to duck into a very cozy and excellent Italian restaurant we love by Philipsruhe. Of course the evening included toddlers since we have no babysitter here. Actually we've never had a babysitter and it's something we'll have to ease into, but there is no one in our area we feel we know well enough. I liked being all together though...sort of. I mean, it started out that way and ended with that reaffirmation, but the middle was a bit rocky. Have you ever been out for a fancy, intimate dinner with toddlers? Some of you are saner than us:) We had quite a bit of tablecloth lifting, grabbing for wine glasses and silverware - we never could quite get it far enough away. The most tragic thing grabbed was Erik's precious espresso by Ian who had been flirting with our neighbors and then changed gears quick as lightening. The table got more than Erik did.

Ian begging for tiramisu by making loud puppy sounds:)

We talked about how we had never seen ourselves with two little boys on our fifth. We looked at each other and we looked at them and we knew how blessed we are. A belated toast goes out to my lovely friends - my Grandpa and Grandma - who celebrated theirs two days before us. Last year we all celebrated together in Germany and it was so nice. I would have even traded that heavenly tiramisu to have you guys again.

Posted by M. of the Gypsies at March 20, 2008 04:48 PM | TrackBack