From The Beginning

In my mind when I read someone's blog especially if it is about a family like this one, I want to know about their beginning. How they met, was it love at first or did it take a few tries before they got it right and so forth.  So I decided that's how I would start this blog.  Plus, the small space for the "about me" section just doesn't do what happend to us justice mainly because love is not small and how can you simply explain you met the love of your life and have everything you could possibly dream of and more in just a few short simple sentances?  I can't seem to but then again, I have never been one to explain things short and to the point so here goes...

I had recently gotten out of a pretty disfunctional relationship where I found out that I was not as strong and emotionally untouchable as I once thought I was.  I had thought that I was strong and could see through anyone's bullshit especially anyone that I was dating.  It turned out that I was just as naive and easily blinded by love as anyone. Needless to say, it was a big ego blower.  I didn't give up and one of my dear friends fixed me up with this very nice guy.  Mind you, she had been trying to do this for years.  I finally relented and started dating him but it became very aparant to me after a couple months that it wasn't meant to be.  I was too busy, I was in school and quite frankly a workaholic ( I loved my job so it was quite easy to do) as well as I just didn't feel that extra spark.  My other main problem which I've had this many times was that I was wearing the pants in the relationship, I controlled it.  This is in my nature, I've always been like this, as a child I was "bossy and demanding" as other kids would tell me.  It's not something I am exactly proud of and have lost many potential friends this way but fortunately in my "older years" I have mellowed out considerably other than in my love life.  My relationships were usually that of where I was wearing the pants but hating it and thus losing respect for my boyfriends because of it as well.  I would end up deeming them irritating, and in some cases complete idiots.  Other than my now husband, the only other person whose personality that I had dated that I would have been compatible with turned out to become one of my best friends which neither he nor I regret that outcome.
By the time I met Jeremy I was seriously considering not dating anyone whether I found them completely interesting or not.  I just didn't want to deal with the whole "dating scene" anymore.  I went with my friend to a local bar in Tri-Cities, it was really a company get together with her and a few of her co-workers.  Jeremy came with one of his buddies who worked with her.  We started talking and there was an instant spark neither could ignore.  A few days later on my birthday we got together again and really hung out and talked and we could not be seperated since then.  He was amazing, everything that I could have possibly dreamed of and was wishing for in a guy.  he was smart, charming, handsome of course but also strong willed yet easy going.  He could control things or just go with the flow and let me control.  and the amazing thing was...I could comfortably do the same with him.
When things started to look serious for us, he warned me that he could get transfered to Frederick, Maryland and that it was looking like it could be soon.  We got the official notice about a month later and he asked me to move with him, I said yes.  I remember working in ER and my mom stopped by to drop off some paperwork (she worked at the same hospital I did) I grabbed her and took her into the break room to tell her that I was leaving with him. I was so scared that she would get upset with me but the funny thing was...she had this grin on her face the whole time.  still makes me shake my head, I would have been upset personally but oh well.  Very soon Jeremy got offered an interview for a company in Houston, TX.  He went down there, interviewed and soon we had the choice of going to Houston, TX or Maryland.  We decided on Texas and October of 2008 we were moving down to Texas only knowing each other for 5 months.  Crazy huh?  Well it got crazier...A year later we were deciding to get married and to try for our first child.  Well getting pregnant was a little faster and easier than we were expecting and on May 25th 2009 we were eloping (with parents permission) when I was a month along with Rogue.  We had her January 11th of 2010.  By this time the job market was slowing way down especially in the oil industry which Jeremy was an electrical engineer in.  In May of 2010 we got an offer to temporary transfer to Tri-Cities, Wa which we were thrilled about since we would be closer to family (an hour and 5 hours vs 2200 miles).  By September Jeremy was offered a permanent position up here in Tri-Cities which we accepted and officially moved up.  In January Rogue celebrated her first birthday and this last may 25th, Jeremy and I celebrated our 2nd Anniversary.  So that's the beginning of us and an update till now, well in a nutshell!