11/27/2025
We started dating and 2 weeks in we decided we wanted kids, marriage, and everything! (In that order) People thought we were nuts 🤪 So… 43 weeks and 3 days into our relationship, our first child was born.
Let’s rewind ⏪ 📼
We were friends for 6 years until one day my coworker listened to me talk about my friend and asked me “Why don’t you date him!?”
Immediately texted him (let’s call him C) and asked him out. He was thrilled and I’d picked a movie at my place but my apartment was A MESS because I worked so much overtime and was rarely home.. and no one taught me how to clean 🤭
C showed up, saw that I was not ready and that I seemed stressed. He got to work and took the cleaning supplies from me, told me to work on the bathroom and that he’d get the kitchen & living room sorted out. When I went to check on him, he had the stove and fridge pulled out and was mopping behind them! 😋 He went home that night with a kiss and he asked me to go with him to a party the next day.
I show up and there were two men standing in the driveway; his older brother and his dad. It’s at this moment I’m told that I’m attending his mother’s birthday party. A woman I’ve never met, but the whole family has heard of me. C stepped inside and I stayed outside to chat with the brother & father for a moment. An inappropriate joke was made by the brother (whose default programming is “drunk”) that if I wanted to date his brother, I’d have to… (take a guess?) and I said “Hang on. Let me get my knee pads from the car.” They both nearly choked on their beers and said “I hope you marry him. We need you in this family.” 🤣 I met his mother and she was the sweetest person I’d ever met.
The very next day, we started dating. Never left each other’s side. Spent every night talking and giggling in the dark like it was a slumber party. Two weeks into our relationship we decided “Why wait?” And 10 months later our first child was born. People thought we’re were nuts, but it made perfect sense. I already knew him. He already knew me. We both wanted the same things.
We were married when our baby was 16 months old. The wedding was very relaxed and fun. We held the ceremony in his parent’s backyard, a duplex. Ladies got ready in one side, guys got ready in the other side. It was the perfect day. Went to our wedding reception across town and had pizza catered in while folks danced all night. 9 months later our 2nd child was born and we had moved out of our apartment and into the other side of his parent’s duplex. Eventually we bought the duplex! 🗝️ 🏠
We always wanted another child but decided to wait 4 years. That sounded like a reasonable amount of time to wait. Having two children 2 years apart was a whirlwind. But when it came time to revisit having a 3rd child, it was 2020 and I’d enrolled (fall of 2019) in college for an HR degree instead. I spent 2 years (7 semesters in a row) tucked away in my office going to virtual classes and doing homework. It was rough. But I did it and got a job in my field immediately. The thought lingered that we still wanted another child but it had been so long by now… if we did, it had to be soon! Our kids would be 7 & 9 by the time the baby would be born…
Well she’s almost 2yo now, and our oldest just turned 11… which means…
We’ve been together 11 years and 10 months and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Marrying my best-friend 🥹 Thank you for taking the time to read my story! 💕
36, size 6 shoe, and the 2yo loves bananas so theyre all gone.
