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03-19-2008, 06:16 PM
And DH and I have been making beautiful music every since. OK, so Sargent Pepper really had nothing to do with it...I just couldn't resist that part.
22 years ago we had our first date, February 16th, or so. 6 mos latere he asked me to marry him. One of us had to finish school, so we were engaged for 18 mos and married on Spring Break of my senior year. We set the date the day DH got hired on his first job. We were married for 2 years and 2 mos when we found out we were expecting our first child, which we lost 8 weeks later. We tried, through various means, to conceive for the next 5 years, and finally gave up. In our first 12 years we lost 3 of our parents, and took numerous vacations :auto:. (there was no need for a college fund!) After my mom passed away we tried to do a domestic adoption, but were never 'chosen'. After his dad passed away, and we had decided that child-free was not that bad, I met a dear friend, Kim, who had just brought a baby home from Vietnam, and that is where our wonderful journey took a HUGE turn. a year later we were tooling around in a cyclo in the town of Hanoi. 3 years after that, we were being chauffered around the steamy city of Bangkok.
Now, 20 years, many twists and turns, and ups and downs, we are happier than we ever could have imagined. Thank God we cannot see what the future holds. Off to celebrate! :001_wub:
22 years ago we had our first date, February 16th, or so. 6 mos latere he asked me to marry him. One of us had to finish school, so we were engaged for 18 mos and married on Spring Break of my senior year. We set the date the day DH got hired on his first job. We were married for 2 years and 2 mos when we found out we were expecting our first child, which we lost 8 weeks later. We tried, through various means, to conceive for the next 5 years, and finally gave up. In our first 12 years we lost 3 of our parents, and took numerous vacations :auto:. (there was no need for a college fund!) After my mom passed away we tried to do a domestic adoption, but were never 'chosen'. After his dad passed away, and we had decided that child-free was not that bad, I met a dear friend, Kim, who had just brought a baby home from Vietnam, and that is where our wonderful journey took a HUGE turn. a year later we were tooling around in a cyclo in the town of Hanoi. 3 years after that, we were being chauffered around the steamy city of Bangkok.
Now, 20 years, many twists and turns, and ups and downs, we are happier than we ever could have imagined. Thank God we cannot see what the future holds. Off to celebrate! :001_wub: