Why we do it

Every Tuesday night, we go out to eat. With four kids. Sometimes it goes better than others, but it's always exhausting. At least one kid usually has to go to time out before he (or usually she!) will behave. We know people who won't take their one kid to a restaurant. People think we are crazy. And many Tuesday evenings, I wonder why we do it.

Then we come home to a clean house (our housekeeper comes on Tuesdays) that has not yet been messed up by cooking dinner, eating dinner, and four kids doing both and the various other things they do to destroy our house. We put them to bed, come downstairs, and relax without having to clean up. And we give thanks for Tuesday nights and kid-friendly restaurants.