Another birth story

So here's another birth story, but this isn't a conventional one. It is the birth of our marriage and the birth of our family.

My sweet heart and I have known each other for 28 years. Wow! We dated when I was younger and then remained friends for years. During that time, he had a son and a very rocky relationship with the babies mother. Two years later I get to meet the little guy while visiting to attend a mutual friends wedding. What a cutie patutie! We went to the Seattle Center and hung out at all the attractions all day. We had a great time.

Two years later, my sweetheart is driving home from Texas to Washington and stops in Oregon to say hi. The minute he walked through the door, I knew we were getting married. It took him two more months to figure it out ^.^ He had just won primary custody of his cutie patutie and that little guy said to him, "Dad, we need a mommy." "Who do you have in mind?" This could have been bad for me if he had said his mom but instead he said "How about that Rebecca lady?" That was the deal cincher.

We had already started falling madly in love and spending hundreds and hundreds on long distance phone bills (remember those?) and gas driving back and forth between states. My sweetheart figured out what I already knew and drove down on Valentines day and stopped at my Daddy's office and asked for my hand. After Daddy gave permission, he came to where I was working and proposed. Now there are a lot more details than that, but that is the gist of things.

We were married the next July. We had 2 weeks together and the Cutie Patutie moved in. Almost immediately, he asked if he could call me mom. My heart swelled and it has been a family ever since.

That young man is going to be 24 this weekend. I can't even imagine my life with out either of these tw0 men.