16 Years and Counting...

April 14. Mof3 and Fof3's Anniversary. 16 years. Wow. High school sweethearts. Liam asked me this morning what it was like not knowing him yet. <--Pretty deep thinker, lately. It made me pause and reflect on life back then. Actually, we were happy people, living freely the way most young newlyweds live...late nights out on the town, long weekends somewhere whenever we wanted, NO nickelodeon!! It was pretty easy living. We thought life was going to be like that forever...and we probably made some foolish comments along the way regarding what was all the fuss?

Then came Caitlin. That's when we learned TRUE happiness. Mof3 will agree to every word of this. It still didn't slow us down very much. We just had a happy, healthy baby with us wherever we went. Then, as she got older and started school, we started to realize how we were becoming slaves to her school schedule...although not really. We were spending less (none) times in the bars and more time in places like the Discovery Zone, Disney and Rated G movies.

Then Liam came. Life was changing for us. Still happy. Happier than ever, actually. Liam was an unhealthy baby. He pretty much cried for 2 years. Life had changed. Then, as Fof3 was engrossed in a New York Ranger-Philadelphia Flyers game, (Liam was 5 months old), Mof3 interrupted to tell me she was having another. Noelle was here 8 months later.

The high school sweethearts without really a care in the world were now parents of 3... Pof3. Life was vastly different. All through this, Mof3 and Fof3 kept keeping on... and life is better than ever. Truly.

I answered Liam's question by telling him that in some wierd, cosmic way, I missed him..and his sisters ... I just didn't know I was missing them.

Mof3 is a great mom. And a wonderful wife. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. And thank God for giving me the guts to ask a girl out for the first time... it was her. And it worked. Happy Anniversary, Mof3.