Our Anniversary

I know, it's been a week since the anniversary. Suffice to say I'm not a "diligent blogger." I want to thank our coaches and the staff at Wright-Patt Credit Union for our little impromptu celebration. This was a good anniversary, a romantic, silly surprise. Which kind of sums us up, really.

Jess and I met at an audition for a show at Playhouse South Community Theater, doing Jesus Christ Superstar. This was years ago...don't ask me how many. ;) We were cast as a couple...the director had a "Babe" for each apostle. I remember saying to her "Looks like you're going to be my babe." If I'd only known. We became good friends through the theater, and did a lot of growing, even though we weren't a couple yet. We were in a veritable plethora of shows together, and eventually, slowly, realized we were crazy stupid in love with each other. Although technically, she knew that well before I did...I can be slow on the uptake.

Then came the time we did Into The Woods together. I was playing both the Big Bad Wolf and Cinderalla's Prince Charming, and Jess was playing the Witch. And I arranged the coup d'etat of romantic, silly surprises. With her family in the front row, and surrounded by our cast, the curtain call was interrupted...and I proposed to her there on stage. I'm lucky to have gotten a standing ovation for a wedding proposal...but luckier by far that she said "yes."

Over the years, our family has grown a bit. There's Kelton, our first cat...we sometimes call him the Prince of All That is Fuzzy. There's Alley, a cat we adopted from friends of ours, who was originally rescued from the middle of I-75. And there's Oberon, our German Shepherd, part cuddly boy and part home security system. And somewhere in our future, hopefully our near future, there's another surprise awaiting us. We don't know who it is yet, but someone is going to get adopted into this life of ours, and taught the lessons we've learned...and the ones we haven't yet...and we're looking forward to what's called "Gotcha day", to the completion of the first adoption.

It's important to know the goal, and to remember the steps you took to get there.

David