Hi Smallbany! So... you know my husband, know Amy and Ray, the three of them went to your wedding 8 years ago?! Now you're big into the LLLI group locally, have two kids, I'm married to Mark, and somehow you found our blog and have been following it and seen photos of Ezra, etc. And I went to a LLL meeting 3 months ago that you were at, and we're sitting next to each other at the NENY Regional Perinatal Forum Breastfeeding Subgroup! With our babies!
Well hi!
And Saturday night at River Street Cafe (I linked to Dish and Dirt because... well... I enjoyed the food, but felt as though dining there WAS overly complicated!
I'm eating from a VERY limited menu lately as Ezra is intolerant of milk proteins AND soy, and that left... well... not what I was hoping for - the lamb! Basically all the sauces were already prepared and there was no way to alter them. Per the chef. OK. By the way, if you didn't know, yogurt and butter are both dairy. So I couldn't have anything but steak. So steak it was, prepared with only a dry rub! And really yummy pasta. And a glass and a half of wine. But no dessert, nothing special. I felt as though I could have gone anywhere else... and had equal or better steak, and a much easier time getting non-dairy food!!
Anyway, Mark and I were celebrating our one-year anniversary (over four months in coming) because my mom and sister gladly agreed to watch Ezra for the night.
In fact, we were celebrating our one-year anniversary, our four-year anniversary of being together (July 3, 2004 was our first date - a motorcycle ride, if you're wondering) and the birth of our son. Wahoo!! How wonderfully awesome.
At the end of the evening there were us and two other couples left dining. One couple turned to us and asked, "is your son Ezra? I got your email this week on the Google Troy Kids Playgroup Group and checked out your photos and blog!! I'm Tracy! I thought you looked familiar!" Then the other couple said they'd overheard us that we were celebrating our anniversary, and said that they were there celebrating eleven years! And Tracy and her husband spoke up and said, "hey, we're celebrating our anniversary - 8 years - too!"
So - here's a toast to anniversaries, to Smallbany, and to new friends! (and all our wonderful kids)
