Today is our 6 year anniversary! I don’t say much about the Mr. However, seeing that today is our anniversary I will sing his praises. He is the most incredible man. He works so hard for us and hardly complains. He listens, he supports me in all of my foolery. He is truly a wonderful man. Our marriage and relationship took time to get here but we were determined and we did it. I can say I married my soul mate. I’m so happy to be his wife!
Here is a post I wrote last year about our struggles in marriage and how we overcame them. Go read —-> HERE! Just not sure anyone was reading the blog at that time…hate to let those words go to waste!
On a lighter note, for those of you who are new here I am reposting my Valentine’s day post..It’s an unlikely love story that details how the Mr. and I came to be one. Enjoy!
Have a good weekend.
*cue Mary J. Blige and Method Man “All I Need and loop in your head as many times as necessary to get through this post*
Once upon a time in June of 1998 I met a guy named A.D. Initially I was not impressed, he grew up very different from me and being as shallow minded as I was at the time I wanted nothing to do with a freshman college student who didn’t own a car, or who grew up in the mean streets of Miami, Fl. At the urging of a mutual friend of ours that actually went to high school with him, I agreed to ONE conversation. As cliche as it sounds the rest was history!
We dated from June 1998 to August of 1999. We decided to go our separate ways and rekindled our relationship in December of 2002. Amazingly during that time I never saw him more than two times and we lived in a very small town but people always said he would ask about me. We agreed to give it another shot prior to my graduating from college (FAMU to be exact) and moving from Tallahassee to Charlotte.
He graduated in 2003 and joined me in Charlotte
We lived in Charlotte for a year and a half before moving to Atlanta. About a year after moving here we got engaged..Woot Woot!!
Then a week later we discovered I was pregnant…After all those years, our luck ran out!
Shortly before Lil Man was born we got married at the courthouse.
We had our own little family
Shortly after our trip to Disney in Summer 2009, We decided it was time to add to the roster
All of this because these two people fell in love….
Moral of the story is, if you haven’t found your “love” yet be patient and overlook the material things. If I had stayed hung up on the fact that he didn’t have a car and grew up in the projects this post would have never been!
19 Comments
Monica sergeant
September 2, 2011 at 12:49 amI love your story! Happy anniversary! Many more
Dr. Reginia
September 2, 2011 at 5:30 amAwesome. You have an attractive family and many blessings to all of you!
Kevin Smith Parr
September 2, 2011 at 7:35 amI would say perfect family would be an understatement, you have a beautiful family, you both look just so good together!
Optimistic Mom
September 2, 2011 at 10:16 amAwesome post!! Happy Anniversary. =)
So many people have this perfect list for their mate, but you can’t always go by that. Looks like you definitely found the one. Your family is beautiful.
Roses daughter
September 2, 2011 at 11:57 amHappy Anniversary! Love your story!
YUMMommy
September 2, 2011 at 12:02 pmHappy Anniversary!!!
kita
September 2, 2011 at 1:39 pmHappy Anniversary. I hope you all have a great day and a happy labor day weekend.
Kim
September 2, 2011 at 2:17 pmLove stories are the best! Happy Anniversary and I wish you many more years of happiness together!
krissy
September 2, 2011 at 2:27 pmHappy anniversary again! Enjoy it! Y’all are so cute!
Jasmine
September 2, 2011 at 3:27 pmHappy Anniversary and God bless your family! Loved the story of how you two came to be, and it definitely inspires me to keep pushing… Because in the one year of marriage we have learned that it is more than a notion…LOL
cam-bibs and baubles
September 2, 2011 at 4:49 pmHappy Anniversary! Love your story. 🙂
Brittany
September 2, 2011 at 6:46 pmHappy Anniversary! Love the story by the way.
Beach Coast Style
September 2, 2011 at 11:29 pmwhat a cute story!!! and congrats to you two! looks like you are having lots of fun along the way and I wish you many more.
Erika Ward
September 3, 2011 at 8:55 amHappy Anniversary to two of my favorite friends, more like family. You have made a beautiful. life together and you deserve all the many blessings in store in the years to come! Love you guys!!!
Candace (NYStateofMom)
September 3, 2011 at 11:20 amBeautiful couple and family. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!
Shayla Barnes
September 3, 2011 at 7:43 pmBeautiful!!!! Happy Anniversary – wishing you and the Mr many more! This is so weird to read as we have so many things that are aligned…my Mr and I will be married 7 years tomorrow….we too found out we were pregnant with daughter #1 about 2 weeks after getting engaged…even the photos are similar…I have one of him attending my graduation (as I’m younger than he) and we have a family Disney pic too…where I am preggo but didn’t know. WOW…anyway Congrats!
OurLifeUnrehearsed ~Erica
September 7, 2011 at 12:43 pmAWWWW, super-cute anniversary post. Congrats!!
Quiana
September 7, 2011 at 1:52 pmHappy anniversary!
MrsTDJ
September 8, 2011 at 5:14 pmHappy belated Anniversary chica!! We’re almost wedding twins. We celebrated 7 years on 9/4.