Four years ago today, I married the love of my life. Ten years this November, I started dating him. It only took him 3 attempts at marrying me before I decided to go for it. Needless to say he's a keeper.
The first time I met my husband I thought he was stuck up. He drove a sportscar, was known as a football star in highschool and word around campus was he was a "bad boy." Ironically, he thought I was stuck up and rude.
I'm not really sure at what point we actually fell for each other, but I do remember sitting in the library at MCC one day and him deciding to sit with me. At that point we began to talk to each other and on November 26 2002 we went out on our first offical date. The rest is history and we've never looked back.
The last 4 years have been filled with laughter, joy, tears, fear, sorrow, sadness, darkness and light. Johnny is truly my best friend, my biggest supporter and my cheerleader. He's given me 3 beautiful children, stood by my side through 2 cancer scares, a miscarriage, job loss and financial strain. Many hours he's spent laughing with me, sat by a fire four hours on end talking about nothing, held me close late into the night hours when my whole world was falling apart, pushed me to achieve the unimagineable, been the best father to our children and has always, always had my back no matter what the circumstance.
Last year, when he lost his job and we were strapped for money, I pawned my wedding rings to buy groceries and diapers to feed our kids. It killed me on the inside but I had no other choice. I've worn fake rings in it's place since.
Friday morning as I was finishing my weekly reports for my UM, Johnny called me and told me to come downstairs because he had an anniversary present for me. To my surprise, he had purchased a new diamond band for me.
I am so grateful for Johnny. He really is my best friend and I can't imagine my life without him. I am blessed beyond meausre to have made it through the last year and a half and thankful that I had him there with me every step of the way.
