We first met in high school. I was dating his friend and it was school spirit week. My boyfriend at the time said you have to meet my friend, You’re gonna love him. He then walked me over to my now husband who was dressed head to toe as Borat and he looked at me and said “is nice. Nice to meet you.” Fast-forward 12 years and we were both finally single at the same time and with some liquid courage I looked at Brian and said you know this is gonna happen Someday right and I made my move.

The chicken tender picnic. While dating, Brian decided to restore an old picnic basket and surprise me and take me to the beach for a picnic. When we got there I was expecting sandwiches something picnic related but instead he pulled out all my favorite food out of the basket which included a chicken tenders, french fries, chicken noodle soup, a Reuben sandwich for him and a slice of cake. We both sat there, happily eating and watched the sunset. Sometimes life is about the little moments.

We’ve always said one of our children we would adopt. We had our son in January but he would very much like a play mate, a brother, a partner in crime. We would use the money to start the process of making our family whole.