I’m so excited about how many people have been reading our site!  I’ve had great phone calls, emails, and chats with people about how they love reading what we’re up to, about Rob, about my zany antics with the dog, etc.  I really feel loved and blessed to know so many great people.  And we as a couple are blessed that so many people are supportive of us.  We have both waited for so long to find the right person and now we get to start the rest of our lives together.  It’s a wonderful feeling.

Rob’s moving on Friday and so the next several days are going to be hectic for him.  I’m just ready for him to be here already so we can enjoy the holidays together, for people to meet him and for us to spend time together.   It’s a great time in my life, better than I could’ve imagined a year ago when I was still upset over a break up from 2005!  But Rob has changed all of that, made me realize how fantastic it is to be with a loving, supportive man who thinks I’m pretty amazing.  Who knew?!

Last week at Thanksgiving, I passed Rob’s picture around the table so my family could see him.  He’s met my parents and grandparents but my cousins and aunts were anxious to see him.  When I got home, I wanted to frame the picture but didn’t want to go buy anything on Black Friday.  And then I remembered the frame.  Adrienne, my master teacher from my student teaching, awesome friend and second mom, had given me this beautiful silver frame back in 1999 or 2000.  She told me no one’s picture could go in it until I met “The One.”  This frame was for his picture.  I put the frame away and moved it from my house, to London, to Essex, and back to Modesto again.  I unpacked it last autumn and put it in the cupboard with the rest of my decorating things.  I was starting to wonder if I’d ever find a man to put in that frame.

Rob’s picture is in that frame on the mantel in my house.  Home at last.