Am…musings

Hi there! Remember me? I apologize for falling off the face of the blogging earth. I do have some juicy news to share so hopefully you’ll forgive me for being gone so long.

As I peeked back at my last post just to see how long it’d been, I had to smile. As I’ve mentioned before, I’d begun to wonder if I was still single because I hadn’t truly decided what I wanted in a relationship. Then along came the Late Bloomer Bride’s amazingly beautiful quote about souls entwining and branches coming together to form a miracle of lace against the heavens. Reading it … then and now … takes my breath away and I decided instantly that was what I wanted in a relationship.

That evening I received a Facebook friend request from S. We went to the same high school and had lots of common friends, but I was pretty sure I didn’t know him. I typically ignore those requests, but for some reason accepted his. A day later S. sent a sweet message saying he wanted to get to know me if I would be interested … I was.

We had our first date a few days later … 12+ hours of fun, including NHRA drag races (the most unique first date I’d ever been on), dinner and hanging out with the neighbors (his idea). We had date No. 2 the following Wednesday, and have seen each other every day except one since then.

He’s amazingly sweet and thoughtful, and treats me like a queen. He’s also an awesome dad to a cutie-tootie 5-year-old son and a 16-year-old daughter, who he adopted when he married her mom. And he regularly makes me smile and laugh uncontrollably … in an “I’m laughing so hard I may hyperventilate” kind of way, which is one of the best feelings in the world.

We both agree we feel like we’ve known each other forever, even though today is our two week anniversary (he brought champagne and a sweet card). And while it might be a little early for branches forming a miracle of lace, I’m happy to shout from the tree tops that our souls are entwining quite nicely.