Nine Years Ago

Nine years ago, I met an incredible human being face to face. An amazing person I'd spent the whole summer of 2001 getting to know through email, AOL instant messenger and on the phone. It was an amazing coincidence we even began talking. We did get to talking. We talked a lot. Sometimes, we talked until the sun came up.

And then, he drove across the country so we could meet face to face to see if those feelings we were feeling were real. They were. We spent a great week together and it was so hard to say goodbye and to start living our lives again on different sides of the country. But we did and we really had to hold it together until we met again.

us, 9 years ago

We were able to come together again and then, I moved in with him. And then we were expecting our first child. And then we got married. And then we were expecting our second child. And then we bought our first house. And here we are, not quite all grown up, but fighting for each other all the time - just like we did all those years ago. And I am so, so grateful to be married to someone who will fight for me and who makes me fight for him. I'm so blessed to be married to someone I can talk to about anything and everything and nothing. I'm amazed to share this incredible life with someone I'm still in love with after all these years.