First, a little background. I am the youngest of 5 children and there is almost 12 years between my oldest sister and me. When I was younger I went and stayed with her family alot when my mom was sick or my parents just needed to get away. That is how I came to meet my wonderful husband Toby.
The Summer between my Junior year and Senior year of high school was not shaping up to be a good one. My mom was dying of cancer and my best friend and I had had a "falling out". I talked my parents and my sister into letting me go to Dansville, New York to stay with my sister's family for the summer and help her with her kids. I knew of the boy across the street because I had heard the story of him yelling at my niece just in time to stop her from getting hit by either a car or bus; it has been so long that I don't remember which.
So I am at my sister's house and I finally spot this cute guy that lives across the street. Every time he was outside on his skateboard I would find an excuse to go outside and read or putter around the yard just so I could get a look at him. I later found out that he did the same thing when he saw me outside. We finally met like a week or two after I was there. We became friends and then it was 4th of July weekend and my sister, her family, and I made a quick trip to Ohio to visit my mom. Then it was back to New York. Toby invited me to go to Pizza Hut with him and his parents on that Friday night. That was our first date; talk about being nervous! He and his family went to Olean, New York that weekend to visit family so I didn't see him again until that Sunday night. From then on we were inseparable.
It was very hard to say goodbye to him that August. Some would say that we were too young to know what we wanted but we knew we were in love. He was planning to fly out to come visit me towards the end of August but those plans changed on August 18th.
On August 18th, 1988 my mom lost her courageous battle with cancer. When my sister and family arrived the next day, Toby was with them. He was there for me when my mom died and has been my rock ever since.
During our Senior year our relationship was mostly long distance. There were alot of phone calls and letters. After August, we didn't get to see each other in person until Thanksgiving. After that, it wasn't until February when he got to come down to Ohio for a week during their Mid-Winter break from school. During this visit he formally proposed to me on Valentine's Day. After this visit, he came down about once a month until he graduated in June.
We tend to gravitate towards holidays.LOL I found out I was pregnant with Marah around Labor Day and we got married on Halloween. This Halloween we will celebrate 21 years of marriage.
I married my best friend and I fall in love with him more every day!
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