Please Don't Follow Daddy's Example

Last week my husband came into the room where I was and said to me that he had just acted like a drug addict. Intrigued, I asked him what he had done. First let me backtrack a little:

Last weekend (not this past one but the weekend before) my family got together with his brothers family. My brother-in-law has two sons. They are always getting sick. So of course after the get-together my husband wasn't feeling well. First the sneezing started. I thought my husband was exageratting when he said that he couldn't go more than a half hour without sneezing. Well, i can attest to the fact that this was true, although, I think it was more like a sneexe every fifteen minutes. So since we had Nyquil in the house that is what my husband took. After about two days my husband had had about enough and finally decided to go out and get medicine for sneezing (I know, I am a horrible wife but he told me that he didn't want me to go out and since I was completely exhausted I didn't want to either). Later that same night, the sneezing stopped but my husband began coughing up a storm. Unfortunately earlier that same day (probably right after he bought the sneezing medicine) he had thrown out the Nyquil bottle since there was only a few drops left.

And this is what my role model of a husband did - he picked the Nyquil out of the garbage (at least it was at the top with nothing really disusting near it) and downed the last few drops!!! Andrew, please do not learn from your daddy.

I've Finally Found the One

I met my husband at work. It is funny how these things work out. I was waiting to meet someone who was worthy enough to marry me, going on many dates, networking myself, going to different places to meet people and then he just came TO ME! I am pretty traditional and so I guess that is the way that it should have been for me - with the guy finding me.

Now I will backtrack for a little and share some of the story. (Maybe I will share more at a later date). I was at my previous place of employment for a number of years. It was my first real (full-time) job after college. I was moving up the ladder pretty quickly and was at the point where I was one of the people whose job it was to train the new employees (this of course had to be done while still getting all of my other work done on time). Anyway, I actually enjoyed training the new employees. I got to know everyone (and see which of them I would choose to work with later by seeing who had more potential than others). In fact, I was one of the only people who knew almost everyone in my firms name.

Twice a year there was a new group of recruits. In one of those groups was my future husband. Of course I didn't know it then. So we met and nothing came from that until a few months later when we happened to start talking, he asked for my number, we spoke on the phone, he asked me out, we went on our first date. The rest is history.

More details will follow when I have more time. Also stay tuned for stories from our first (and second and third, etc) date.