Tomorrow I will have been married to my wonderful husband for 2 years.  We've been together for 4 1/2 now and we have a lovely *nearly* 7 month old daughter.  I remember how we met like yesterday.

I was on my own for the first time in my life (long depressing story I don't want to go into).  I was living with my sister and her family looking for my own place for a short time when I first moved out of home.  (I financially supported my mom and grandmother for many years.  It was an emotionally abusive situation that took me way too long to get out of).  Anyhow, I had *just* 2 weeks prior to moving in with my roommate and I had gotten a job at a mall bookstore.  My roomie was great, like a sister in fact and I loved working at the bookstore.  I had made friends for the first time in my life and things were really looking up for me.  I was having a great time with Kris and for the first time really seeing how good life could be.  When I thought I could not be any happier, I met him. 

I was walking into the stockroom with some magazines to send back to the company (old issues) when this tall, blonde, blue-eyed security guard from the mall was chatting with the assistant manager (who was also a friend of mine).  Kevin introduced us.  I said 'hi' (very likely blushed) and ducked inside to do my work.  (I'm quite shy, actually.)  Handsome security guard came into the store often as he was an avid reader.  Since he rode mass transit at the time he could go through the average paperback in a about 2 days.  He'd alwasy chit-chat with either Ron (the manager) or Kevin.  He began coming in when I was stocking his favorite section and Ron or Kev were busy.  He began chatting with me about life in general.  Books, relationships, etc.  Just about anything. 

One month later we had made arrangments to join friends at a club.  Ryan was going to ride with me.  The night before we were to go out, he was playing poker with some his buddies and he had gone outside to call me to make sure I was still going.  We ended up talking about the stars as the evening was very clear and I had gone outside to take the call.  Toward the end of the phone call he confessed he has been too shy to tell me that he thought I was beautiful and he had been wanting to kiss me.  *grins*  I'm pretty self conscious and never thought of myself as pretty at all.  As a matter of fact I've always been a wallflower and a nerd.  I'll never forget that phone call.  I was on top of the world. 

I still can't believe we've been married for 2 years now and have a lovely baby girl.  Life is funny sometimes