It was our 50th wedding anniversary early this month. My husband and I had decided on having a quiet anniversary with just daughters and daughter-in-law and kids.
But two of my husband's siblings decided otherwise and held a surprise dinner party for us. Covid added a spoiler in changing the venue, but thankfully caused no other problems.
As my husband has/had 7 siblings, just his siblings and their families means a lot of people. There was just my husband's family and my eldest brother, who spends half the year here. But that added up to around 50 people, which included all the grandkinds ranging in age from a 1 year old to an 18 year old. Many out-of-towner nieces and nephews very sweetly adjusted their schedules and stayed on specially for the event. Unfortunately my youngest son and family were not able to make it from Chicago, because of the surge of Covid cases at the end of last year and the beginning of this year in the US. We really missed them.
I had guessed that something had been planned but it was a total surprise to my husband and he was very touched by all the preparation. There were some speeches and some singing [in our family there is no event sans some singing] and good food. The weather was pleasant too. So a good time was had by all. Luckily it did not turn out to be a pandemic super spreader, for which we are truly grateful.
