We met many years ago through the friendship of our daughters, Heather and Ashley. Fast forward to several years ago and thats where our friendship, and commonality of single parents trying to survive, turned into romance. It was a slow process, which made it even sweeter and more authentic.

Christmas Eve we were gathered together opening gifts. Jenny was playing Santa by passing out the gifts (in a very orderly fashion) and THE gift happened to be the very last gift Jenny had - even though Rod kept trying to get her to grab gifts from the OTHER side of the tree. The gift was opened and it was a picture of the Engagement Bear because it didn’t arrive on time. Jenny turned the paper around to show what it said and as the girls burst out crying (happy tears) Rod pulled out the ring and, well...of course we all know the emphatic answer!!