April 16: Meeting Mommy

As I look back over the years since my kids were born, I recall several occasions in which I met my wife and kids at a restaurant for dinner. The most memorable of these is when I met them in Rochester one Friday evening at the Rochester Mills Beer Co.; this is when I still worked out of an office in Troy. As fate would have it, that same evening the brewery was kicking off their Oktoberfest event in the lot behind the main building. What an awesome night that was! The kids danced around to all the music, they got to do some of the activities, and they even rode a pony. Still, all of my memories like this have me meeting my wife and kids. That is until this evening when the roles reversed, and on the her way home from work my wife arranged to meet me and the kids over at Cheeseburger in Paradise. The kids were both tired from a week of school, yet also wound up as they just finished running around the backyard. So, I figured this was going to be more of a challenging adventure as opposed to your laid back, relaxing type. But, I figured wrong. Actually, we never got that far into the adventure to determine which way it would have gone, as the minute we exited the car and headed for the door of the restaurant, my wife had pulled into the parking lot and met us inside within minutes. Someone once said "behind every great man is a great woman", and I for one have no arguments against that. Especially on this night!