In case you are on pins and needles wondering if it was love at first sight on that 26th day of January in 2006, it wasn’t!

I was 24 years old, a third year teacher to 4th grade students. In fact, I had just gotten home from teaching all day when I met Dave who was standing in the kitchen talking to my mother.

He was 21 years old! Yes, just 21 years old! In his last year of college.

At first I view him as such…the kid my kid brother roomed with. (At that time, Dave was my brother’s roommate and he had been invited to dinner that night.)

We met, ate a spaghetti dinner and I am not really sure when I started seeing him with different eyes. I am sure I could go back and look at my journals, but it was probably around February or March.

And I was sure that he kept coming to Thursday night dinners because of 1) the food and 2) my Pup. But as it turns out, he was a teeny bit interested in his roommate’s older sister and by June we were dating.

A week after we crossed the line of “just being friends” we knew we were to get married. And so 11 months after that, we did.

I’m grateful God chose Dave to walk this life with me

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- Elaine