Coming Full Circle

This past weekend, I had a wonderful visit from my boyfriend. Despite my running fever on Sunday night and Monday morning when he left my apartment, we were able to spend quality time with one another as well as spend some time with my friends. Saturday afternoon, we actually went ring shopping together. It was one of those moments that I've always imagined but never really expected would happen to me. Our shopping excursion was unsuccessful but that isn't really the point.

While we were out and about, I began to think about how we reached this point in our relationship. Last April, I finally agreed to meet this guy that my best friend was dying to introduce me to who she claimed was my "future husband." I laughed at her and for once actually agreed to meet this guy just so that I could say I did it... and to make her happy. I'd had numerous blind dates up to that point in my life and I expected my meeting with him to be just as horrible as the blind dates in my past. Oddly enough, we clicked instantly and began talking as if we'd known one another forever. My best friend Amanda confessed that she'd been wanting to set us up for about three years, but the timing was never right. On the evening we first met, we actually drove to the grocery store to buy ingredients for me to make banana pudding because I had been craving it for quite some time. Phillip actually went to the store with me then helped me in the kitchen with making the banana pudding. What an odd way to begin a relationship. Well, that relationship has grown since last April and we are still together and planning on getting married someday soon. Neither of us are sure when that day will be, but it will come when the time is right.

Thank you Amanda for being there for me through my horrible relationships, tears, and stupid mistakes and for having a vision for my future. Thanks for believing in me when I no longer believed that love was possible for me. Thanks for introducing me to my prince charming! Here's to hoping Phillip and I will end up as blissfully happy as you and your wonderful new husband:)