Beach and Church Hopping :)

This post will be less writing and more pictures. I just wanted to share the different beaches and the Churches we visited. Adam knows my affection for art and beauty and my affection for the church and there are many amazing churches in England,…even around where we have our home. When i saw the old churches built centuries ago and the beauty over the craftsmanship and detailed work that went into them, it really made me wonder why we went astray from the old ways of architectural beauty.

The beaches we visited were:

Brancaster Beach,..right down the road from our home.

Then we hopped over to Wells By The Sea:

As you can see, it was low tide.

And Side Tide,..lol..just kidding,..this one was taken leaning over the rail with the wind blowing my hair in my face and I did not realize I had the camera turned. 🙂

Time for HOT coffee and something delicious! at Wells Deli :  http://www.wellsdeli.co.uk/index.html

   

And continue with church hopping…for we had actually started with the church hopping on our drive to Brancaster and Wells 🙂

I cannot tell you what the names of the little villages were, you would have to ask Adam. I am still learning 🙂

But here are some of the churches we stopped and took pictures of…very easy to take good pictures,..lol..as an old professor of mine once said, “just point and click”…. 😀

Nope,..that is not a church…but I do almost worship the ground he walks on,…almost,..do NOT want to be sacrilegious…Sorry, Father!

Here you go:

Adam has the cooler B & W Photoshop of this….cheater…lol 😉

And then there was ELY…WOW!

Amazing architecture! wish it hadn’t been so cloudy so we would have had more light for our pictures inside ELY CATHEDRAL.

saying our prayers…..

Spitting image…lol

haha,..that’s more like it..

And another day of the beach! Hunstanton..ot “hunston” if you say it like they do 😉

low tide again…

all the fun rides closed for the season..drat!

but the arcade was open for the boys! They just had to wait until their dad and I explored the beach for a bit.

And the boys finally went into the arcade where Jack won 1,000 tickets on a spin for tickets!

Time for Fish and Chips and to go home………

Pop!

Okay, so I have kind of skipped a little here and I want to back track just a little to when Adam actually proposed. It is quite funny actually.

So, here I was having spent the night in London in a hotel and having spent the next day full of sights and sounds and street performing shows and all, and we were finally,…finally headed to our home, which I still had never seen in person. I was tired and hungry and excited and blown away by the feeling of love with Adam. I was on a major RUSH!

We finally made it back into Kings Lynn by train from Kings Cross and we had all my luggage to carry to the car he had parked about a block or so away. It was later than we had planned to be back, close to 10pm.

We walked from the station and made it to the car, put the luggage in the back of the car and then he got in the car to start it .

About this time, Adam noticed that the side mirror on the driver’s side of his car had been knocked off, most likely purposeful, but we were never to know the culprit.

The next little whammy popped when he discovered the battery to his car was dead.

In his excitement the day before, he had forgotten to turn off the lights when he parked the car. Come on give him some slack! He was thinking of other things and we have all done something of the same sort before! 😀

I cannot tell you how embarrassed he seemed to be about that. he kept saying over and over that it was a “school boy error”. I was not upset with him. I told him it was not a big deal and we could take the bus back to our house and it would be fine with me.

So while he was telephoning his dad and hoping he would answer, we were walking to the bus station another few blocks away.

Adam was upset with the car being out of commission and it putting a wrench in schedules, for he had planned we would stop and get chinese/curry take out on the way home and just relax after the long plane journey and day in London. Plus, he was due to pick up his boys in the morning and that would have made that very difficult.

As it turned out, his dad answered and they figured a way to get it jumped while I was going to stay at the house and unpack,..then we would go get the chinese. Delish!

The bus brought us to the end of our street with a short walk with luggage to the driveway and then in and up the stairs. I cannot even begin to tell you how much I loved our home!

I was so happy that I cried and Adam gave me a few hugs and kisses and apologized about the car again and then rushed around getting ready for his dad to pick him up to go do the jump. I went and sat on our bed and unpacked my bags, still crying a little bit at the unbelief of happiness that I was actually there!!

About a minute later, I heard Adam grumble, ” Oh, Buggah!” and I thought maybe he had done something to his finger shutting the drawers, since he was in the kitchen. I didn’t look around. A few seconds later, I hear him call from the living room to me.

“Tammy, can you come here and help me for a minute?”

He was down on his knees and holding his back. He said, “I think you are going to have to help me with something.”

I was instantly worried he had injured his back or something and went to try and help him up, asking, “What is it? What happened?”

He pulled his hand from behind his back and held up to me the ring and said, ” Would you do me the honor of making me the happiest man on earth and become my wife?”

Well,…..

OF COURSE I SAID YES! 😀

And I cried alot more. He slid the ring on my finger and we kissed and hugged. My mascara ran. The doorbell rang and his not to thrilled dad was there.

He came up and said a brief hello, for he was not happy about having to go out in the night after he was settled in and jump Adam’s car off.

Couldn’t blame him too much, but it was a weird way to meet your future father-in-law. Quick-zip!

They were gone and I was in the house all alone, saying prayers of thanks and waiting for the sound of the car in the drive.

20 minutes later he was back and we were headed for that Chinese!

We finished up the night with the perfect meal of spicy Chinese chicken curry and noodles, with a side of “prawn” crackers I had never heard of before but were awesome!

Never had anything felt more awesome than being there with him, getting officially engaged and learning all about our new home, my new new city and all the new family and surroundings life was now offering.

we topped it all off with a warm romantic fire popping and sizzling in the stove-fireplace, a glass or two of wine to celebrate…….AND……..

….A long skype session with my kids back home in the U.S!! LOL…..it was only 6:30pm there

A toe in the bath

I think my favourite saying is “In for a penny, in for pound” which simply means if you’re going to do something, bloody well do it good!! So after knowing that I’d fallen for Tammy, there was nothing left to do but to get a ticket to Texas!!!

Having not ever been to America before this was certainly going to be an amazing adventure, finally getting to meet Tammy after all this time! What an incredible few years it was proving to be, having nearly died in 2010 and then the separation with my ex after Christmas, moving out and leaving my children and then starting a new job!! My relationship with Tammy really was the cherry on top!! Never during that time did I ever doubt my sanity or think anything other than this was going to be fantastic!!

That’s the great advantage of Skype, we knew a boat load about each other as we had spent many hours talking and sharing our lives with one another.

Heathrow Terminal 5 – Come on!!!

Life is short and I want it to be sweet 🙂 Many of my friends and family were concerned about me, thinking that my trip to the states was some weird reaction to what had happened the previous year. They were half right 🙂 When you come close to dying you realise how fragile life is and that you can’t take one second of it for granted! Tammy living in Texas was no reason to avoid following my heart, it never felt wrong and so I went with the attitude, let’s dip the toe in the bath and see what happens.

As soon as we met, we kissed and it was a kiss like no other, it must have lasted a full 5 mins and it was sensational!! It was the middle of September and we’d be in a relationship for at least 5 months, so you can imagine how much pent up sexual tension there was lol.

Tammy drove me to her house and I got to meet her family 🙂 It was great to finally meet them all for real, it was a surreal moment but again it never felt wrong, I’d spoken to all of them on Skype many times and so it was seamless.

The next week Tammy and the kids shared their lives with me, it was a magic time! One of the highlights was when we all went to the drive in cinema and watched a couple of films with the seats all folded down and the tailgate open, Awesome!!

 The summer holidays were over and so Tammy took me to her University, where she is studying History and Religion as a mature student, I even got to sit in on her lectures, definitely my cuppa tea!

What was so nice was the feeling that we belong together, we are totally into the same things, of course we knew this before my trip to Texas, but there’s much more to a relationship than just sharing the same interests. It was a great relief to know and feel that everything felt right.

One of my favourite pictures

(left to right Maddison, yours truly, Tammy and Zoey)

Here’s another great memory of my visit.

One thing you need to understand about the US is it’s size!! The UK will fit into Texas approx. 3 times and so everyone drives just about everywhere in the US. Just the school run and a few trips to some local attractions accounted for just over a 1000 miles in one week!!!  So we had plenty of time for chatting, singing and wise crackin in the car.

(Centre is Alex 17, right is Ivory 13 and mid back seat is Maddie 10)

Bryant  11 – Super manga and pc artist!!

Zoey 6 (Peanut)

Ivory 13 (Pop Idol)

Rebecca (Tammy’s mum)

Pigeon (cutest dog on the planet)

Spending a week with Tammy and her wonderful family was one of the greatest weeks of my life and I’m so glad we decided to take a chance on each other 🙂

So there you have it, a brief description of my stay in Texas! Short but very, very sweet, I could write for ages and I still wouldn’t capture all of the fun we had or the feelings of happiness that we both felt. We both knew that we wanted nothing more than to spend the rest of our days together!

Adam x

Planning

    There was so much planning to do and as it is with most plans, they change. We have had to compromise and come up with back up plans and in the end,..we came up with a plan that worked…or at least has been blessed so far. I pray it continues to be so.

The first little bit of the journey was to mark our calendars. First, I marked mine for when I would have money to send his way to go towards a home for us that was going to be big enough for all. Two adults and seven children would eventually be ALL together.

Second, was the decision of which of my kids to take in the first round of the move overseas and which were to stay behind until I could obtain a job over in the UK to help more with expenses. As it stands, I cannot work for I go to school full time and then take care of my invalid grandmother who has Alzheimer’s. So, anytime I come into any money, I send it his way. I wish I could do more and he understands this.

I think the best days have been when I marked the calendar for him to come over, for when he moved into our new home where we would live and when I was counting down to fly overseas and spend 9 days with him and his family. 😀 😀

And now,..now I mark my calendar for our wedding!!!! WOOHOO!!! and for our final move over to be with him!!!

I will share some pictures of our lovely, happy home in King’s Lynn 🙂 xxx and also some pictures of my trip there to England.

Our visit to London took the shape of a London Bus tour and a stop was taken at the National Museum for Art, Picadilly Circus to see Eros, Trafalgar Square and Nelson’s Column.

Adam also gave me a tour of our new home in East Anglia, which consisted of trips to Wells next to Sea, Ely and it’s beautiful Cathedral, Cambridge and St John’s University, King’s Lynn town centre and Norwich city and of course our local seaside resort Hunstanton with Adam’s adorable kids Lewis and Jack xx

We shared an amazing time together and I hope you like the photo’s

Tammy x

 

The Promise.

Have you ever been lied to so many times that when you wanted to believe in something or someone it was very hard to believe them,..especially if you had been hurt by them?

Funny thing about this love,…NEVER,…NEVER,..have I ever felt like Adam was lying to me.

For the first time, I honestly know what it is like to have someone REALLY love me.

I have only ever felt that his heart was an open doorway to a world of honesty I have never known.

I am not going to lie and say I never worry I will lose him,…and worry alot is exactly what I do sometimes,…just because I simply have never had anything so wonderful as this,…that exceeds even what I had always thought I wanted. He goes beyond even the checklist I had made for myself.

How incredible is that?!

But he sees me and knows not all is right and even if I say otherwise,..he ducks his head to the side and looks at me like, “C’mon, Tammy…you’re fibbing….tell me what’s really going on.”

And I always do…lol….

I can see it in his eyes and he reads me like a book which is a running joke with us because he falls asleep every time he tries to read a book, so he doesn’t read much,…but he is working on that 😉 xx

But he reads me loud and clear!

I can’t escape even one small gesture and he is on the hook! He knows something is up and he instantly is on the case!

We had come to the decision to make a go of things for real when he came and visited. A month later,…that puts it about October 2011… he put it in black and white, and everyday there after he has put it in writing and proved it…minus two or three wobbles of fear which is too scarily painful for me to recall here…but he recovered…THANK GOD!

He was taking a bath one night and emailed me from his phone.

He started out by saying:

“Now that we sail in difficult waters, where the Sea tries it’s damnedest to claim another vessel, I thought of my promise to you.
Never have I connected with someone as beautiful as you Tammy, hence the voyage we are now embarking. Your beauty transcends the flesh, in purity and grace it engulfs me, like a wave of intense emotion; drenching my soul with love’s merry intoxications.
There has, and never will be, anyone like you Tammy, I know this and cherish your love dearly. You’ve touched me in many deep and moving ways, it’s like an awakening of the soul.”

He then followed that with:

“My promise to you is this, I will love you forever, I will respect you and consider you my loving equal, I will come for you and make you my wife. I want us to live a happy and fulfilling life together and thus I pledge to do everything in my powers to make this our reality. This promise to you is my living motivation and I’m dedicated to you, us and our families.
I know words are easy to say or write, but I mean every one of them and I will spend the rest of my life proving this to you.
Your loving nature has been abused in the past, but it’s found it’s match in me, never again will you find your love rejected or wasted.”

And I have held him to that promise and have held onto that promise ever sense.  I have made the same promise in return to him.

And I believe in him, because of his amazing love for me and how he has proved it…..and because of the amazing love he builds inside me.

Losing our Skype Cherries

No Escape

I remember emailing Tammy suggesting that we should take things to the next level and use Skype to talk and see each other, I felt that until we had done this we couldn’t really get to know each other, y’know ‘warts n all’. They say the camera never lies, well I’m not so sure of that these days with all the air brushing that goes on, but it’s definitely true of live video!!

There is no hiding place for your little idiosyncrasies when using a live video to communicate and I really wanted that face to face interaction with Tammy because of the intensity of our feelings for each other. Don’t get me wrong emails are great, especially with a time difference, (Texas is behind the UK by 6 hours!) and we use them many times daily; these tick the engine over until we get to speak over Skype usually after Tammy has returned from University or after the school run in the afternoon (Texas time).

I remember this email………

“Ebay have a usb video cam and integrated mic for a whopping 7 dollars, skype is free, sorted x”

What can I say? The first time we used Skype was amazing, emotional and perfect, we’d lost our Skype cherries lol and it was sensational, totally transforming our relationship, offering us credible chance at being a couple, way more than just good pen friends.

God knows how many hours we’ve spent on Skype talking to each and now other family members across the world, who’ve taken our experience and are using it to enjoy their relationships in different ways. We can’t recommend it enough and if you’ve never used it, well you’re missing a trick, video calls are totally free and it adds a beautiful dimension to calling your friends and family!!!

Without Skype I’m positive Tammy and I wouldn’t be where we are today, hence the shameless plug lol, we love it!!!

Adam x

The First Time We Said “Good”-Bye

I never have had to experience what most families do when their loved one is in the military and has to leave and for long periods of time. This relationship gave me a whole new perspective on that.

How do you love someone with your whole heart and send them away for indefinite amounts of time, with nothing but HOPE in your heart they will return and that you will not lose them.

All the feelings of fear that grip your heart and the anxiety is through the roof! You feel like you are reaching for something that you can never have……

 

 

 

 

 

 

But Adam ALWAYS assures me that it WILL happen, that he believes it and I,…well,…even when times are tough and I get worried and anxious alot,….I ALWAYS look into his green/golden-brown eyes and actually BELIEVE HIM.XXX

I told Adam to NEVER EVER say good-bye again! I hated good-bye’s….How on earth could they be called “GOOD”? It does not feel “good” to watch the person who fills your soul and lights you on fire and inspires your dreams to reality,…go away.

The first few days of the first week apart, after having known each other in ALL ways,…ways a deep emptiness. After a week or two, I was finding myself eating to try and fill a gap…then I became depressed for gaining weight and I shared all this via email and Skype with Adam. He is after all my best friend. I have said everything to him and share all my secrets and prayers..I had kissed his tears away and he had held me and kissed me through mine. We shared our fears and all our hopes and dreams.

WE HAVE COMMUNICATED MORE AND ARE CLOSER THAN MOST COUPLES WHO LIVE WITH EACH OTHER ON A DAILY BASIS!!!

He always is there for me. He always listens and talks with me and not just “TO” me. He keeps that sparkling eyed smile for me.

When he got back home we went right back to not being able to  wait to Skype again and read emails from each other. To this day we have over 3,000 emails between us and 10 months of Skype sessions…even homemade videos of cooking food to playing with our kids, to just sitting and talking to the camera videos…even maybe some racey scenes thrown in…enough for a few epic novels! hahaha….. Danielle Steele, watch out!!

Though I turn to God in prayer, because that is my source of religious hope,….Adam prays in his own way and though we are different, we respect each other’s thoughts on that and can share all we are without fear.

We have both cried separately and online when on Skype because we love each other so much and are separated by not just miles, but by bureaucratic red tape….otherwise known as visas.

I won’t go into that here, but I will later.

That picture above,…I was kissing my BEST FRIEND and BEST LOVE “good”-bye and felt the lousiest I had felt in a long time.

Here I had finally found this man,..a real PRINCE of a man,….honest, caring, considerate, generous, intelligent, wise, humble, patience of a SAINT  and yet so very passionate!

He lived  across the universe from me and I had 9 days of basking in the light of all I had known and had come to know of him. I was watching him walk away from me into the security baggage check to get on a plane and fly far, far away.

I had no smiles in me,..just tears. Even the kids were crying. It wasn’t just me,.. we all knew we loved him and he was going to be extreme amounts of missed!!

But,…not to end this on a sad note…….. 😦

We came to a firm decision that we were going to get married and move me and the kids there. There was NO DOUBT about it. IT WAS MEANT TO BE. Somehow, from across the universe,….our hearts had heard each other and whatever fairytale magic or angels from heaven assisted in pulling us literally together,…We both give thanks for every day! We do NOT take any of this for granted.

XXX

Hearts on Fire

A Burning Desire……

 

This photo of Tammy was one of the first I saw of hers when we made friends on Facebook, to say it was a game changer is a massive understatement!

All of a sudden my feelings for Tammy went through the roof!!

We had been enjoying each others minds for sometime and I’d often wondered what she looked like and what her life was like; I was intrigued . Tammy’s blog is completely different to mine, hers has a professional look and feel to it, whereas mine was quite a personal blog, which contained a few family pictures and family related posts. It’s changed a bit since then, but that’s another story.

When I saw this picture on facebook there was no denying it, I fancied her BIG TIME!!! I’m sure most fella’s can understand why, she’s so beautiful and I was to learn that she has an equally beautiful heart and mind to match. Pretty soon we knew quite a lot about each other and having both recently separated, we confided in each other and our relationship grew exponentially.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Surely this couldn’t be happening?? What was I doing?? This is crazy!! I’d fallen for this girl from Texas and It was absolute magic!! We were emailing each other a lot by now and we both knew what was going on, but I couldn’t bring myself to stop, I was smitten, in love with someone 5000 miles away!!! ARGHH!!!!!

We were sending photo’s of each other and short films that we’d made to share our feelings and thoughts, our hearts were on fire and we wanted each other badly. I think it was spring 2011 that I told her that I wanted to visit her in Texas, she was so happy and excited, I was well chuffed when I knew she wanted me too!!

For those that don’t know me, I’m quite a reserved guy, rarely flamboyant or trendy and I’ve never been the life an soul of the party. Yet this to 99% of people would be a completely crazy proposition, but to us it’s never felt wrong, sure it’s difficult, but we both know that we have something very special and we know that we were meant to be together.

When you know and feel this as much we do, then the rest is quite simple, we’ll do whatever it takes to make our dream a reality, despite the reservations of others or the  minor issue of the 5000 miles between us!!

Adam x

The Joy of Skype

Without Skype?

Well I doubt our relationship would have been able to flourish into this cherished and loving friendship the both enjoy now, without Skype I’m sure we would have had to concede that our love affair could not have gone on. Sure in the past people have communicated via post and emails, but Skype really has turned all of that on its head!!

Now we use all of the above methods to communicate, with over 2500 emails and hundreds of Skype hours between us, I’d say we enjoy more communication than most couples do.

Nurturing a long distance relationship is insanely difficult and this ratchets up several gears after you finally get to meet each other and then have to say goodbye and return to the laptop for regular Skype sessions. I don’t think I’ve ever had to do anything so difficult. This type of relationship is not for the faint hearted or those who haven’t the self discipline or trust in your partner. Fortunately, Tammy and I have both of these qualities and we know how precious or love is 🙂

I think the major advantage a long distance relationship has over a conventional relationship is that you really have so much time to get to know your partner before you make any rushed commitments to each other. You take a conventional relationship where you can meet someone up a club and swap numbers etc. before you know it you’re horizontal and you barely know a thing about the person you’re with!! This can and does lead to many problems, which I’m glad I don’t have to worry about.

The major downside of a relationship like ours is that although the time we spend together is deeply treasured, saying goodbye is extremely painful and if you’re not strong could become too much to bear. Both Tammy and I are strong people, we have a plan that we’re working on that will in time see us living together forever!!

What is Skype?

In short, Skype is an internet telephone service with a difference, it lets you video call for FREE!!! This is indeed a massive innovation in communication, so much so that Microsoft have now purchased the company and are expanding it’s features at some rate. You can now conduct video conferencing for a small price, along with conventional calls and free SMS messaging, to name but a few.

This may sound like a plug and I guess it is lol, but I consider it the least I can do for a company that has changed my life infinitely for the best!!

Skype uses your broadband connection and so you need to be aware that it’s quite a hefty load on your internet allowance, especially if you’re on it every day like we are, therefore I recommend you opt for an unlimited package as you won’t be stung by a surprise bill every month.

Tammy and I will be posting soon about how we cope with the 6 hours time difference between England and Texas, so for now I’ll say goodbye and hope you found this article of some interest.

Adam x

Tonight…….

I was going to write more on things that have happened, but I really miss you, Adam….

We are both frazzled from our days all the extra we are trying to do and we both want nothing more than to just be with each other….loving each other…sharing our lives fully….. our time is getting more limited daily, it feels, and we both take all we can get as long as we can have time with each other.

I heard a song on the radio and, as I do with most things, I thought of you……..how I tell you I get lost in your eyes that remind me of the light shining through trees….like patches of godlight….leading me always back to the place you are when things are going rough…….. and how all the fruitless searches led me to you,….how we both say we “look to the time with you [each other] to keep me [us] awake and alive”……

If you are not too familiar with this one,.. really listen to it

I love you.

How I met Tammy

Collision Course:

So how did all this begin?…….Well about 18 months to 2 years ago, whilst my then wife and I were realising that our marriage had failed, after work and the kids had gone to bed I spent a lot of time on my own, either making music or researching and writing my blog,

adamhad’em

Well it was the blogging that set me on a collision course with Tammy, and although I didn’t know it at the time, my destiny!!

As part of Tammy’s degree course she had to design and maintain a blog, which she did fantastically by the way, never before had I been so captivated by anybodies writing. Who is this amazing person? Where does she come from? What, how, where??? So many questions and I really wanted the answers!! Eventually I ventured to post a comment on her blog, well I felt way out of my depth, what would this amazing mind think of my comment I wondered……….Not a lot it seemed, no reply was forthcoming. Not thinking much of it and never being one to give up I ventured another comment on a another post of her a little later and this time we connected 🙂

Just a few words here and there as we commented on each others blog, now if you’ve never blogged you may find this hard to understand, but nowadays most people own a facebook account where you are actually, in effect, micro blogging to your friends and family. Those that do will understand the anticipation of replied comments to a post they’ve made. Both of us were writing all manner of articles for our blogs, Tammy’s always held my attention and I’d eagerly await her amazing insight and views of the world.

When my wife and I separated, I decided to get a facebook account in order to contact some of my old pals and family members that I’d not seen for ages, it was here that my relationship with Tammy exploded!

How I met Adam

How I met this amazing guy! (this pic is from my trip to visit him in England this year, but I just LOVE THAT SMILE!)

I was attending Cedar Valley College in Texas where I live. The thought occurred to me that I would really love to start a journalism website where all the students could come and discuss several topics, and exercise their creative writing. I talked it over with one of the English professors and in a couple of months of his advice and my hard work, www.portofembarkation.wordpress.com was born.

Were the angels of destiny at work?

Over the next several months I had found that not too many students caught on to it, but I kept it going. In the meantime, several other people on WordPress had started reading and commenting on the topics I had written of. I made a good friend in Canada through this and in turn from her following my site and re-posting some of my stories, “@damhadem” became a frequent visitor.

I always had a habit of checking out anyone else’s blog pages who visited mine and when I read his and looked at his profile, the first thought that went through my brain was, “this guy is awesome”. Especially thought this when his thoughts went introverted and he spoke of his family and how certain things in the world would have an affect on the future his boys would grow up in. And how he stated that he sat and watched his boys playing and I literally felt that he was full of passion and expression beyond just politics and criminal injustices of the world. I started to see him as a real man. I have 5 children of my own and I could feel his honest expressions over them.

Secretly, well,…..since this is a diary,….I was intellectually/mentally attracted to him and I had never even seen a real picture of him, just some monkey picture on his profile and distorted Photoshop profile that made him appear very old.

We did nothing more than keep in touch through commenting on each other’s blogs and our mutual friend’s blog in Canada. We all became close friends through lengthy discussions of many topics and we all loved what the other would write, even if we had disagreements, which were very few.

Eventually I started listening to the music he made on his  account and saw that he had even more talent than writing.

here is a link to one of my fav’s:      

 

A year later, changes had brought him to a new place in his life and he also set up a Facebook account, to which our friend in Canada and I accepted him and we made a pact to meet each other one day. I finally got to see pictures of him and my stomach did flip flops!

We started seeing more of each other’s personal lives on Facebook, seeing pictures of us in our different parts of the world and began emailing every day. We talked about our lives and our days and nights and our current relationships with other people. I saw that he was more than charming…he was a real prince of a man!

It wasn’t very long at all before either of us could deny that we were in love.

It was crazy to say, being 5,000 miles away, but it was very true!

I will never forget the first email when he told me he loved me and my heart flew into the sky!!

I wished he wasn’t so far away so I could have gone to him and said that I loved him too! I wanted to wrap my arms around him and kiss him RIGHT THEN!!

I thought he was AMAZING in all ways and I still think it….probably even more 😀

We spent a few months of knowing this was crazy to not caring if it was, to being totally awed by how much we found in one another we had always hoped for.

We tried to share more of our lives by sending videos of our days and outings. I couldn’t wait to get the next one!

Then we made a decision to really meet in person. He bought tickets to fly here in September 2011.

He arrived on the 16th.

All the months leading up to that were sheer anticipation! I remember being at the airport and jumping every time the sliding glass doors opened to let out the passengers from the international flight. I was SO NERVOUS.

When I saw him, everything I felt for him was amplified!

He was GORGEOUS! He was beautiful as men go. That coupled with what I already knew of his mind and heart,..well,..there was no holding back what I felt! When he came straight to me smiling and grabbed me up in a kiss, it was PERFECT! We fit perfectly and I think we kissed for a good 15 minutes….before moving from that spot.

My knees were shaky. I was so happy and filled up inside.

He was finally right there! Right there, with me!

We spent and amazing week together with my kids and I will post pictures on our “Photos” page for you to see of that week.

We knew, we were meant to be together and we both made the mutual decision for us to work towards being together for good!

I cannot wait for that!