I first saw Isa during a quick trip to the supermarket. It was nuts. It was like I was stuck in a moment of awe and I didn't even care who saw me staring. Ugh. Thinking about it now it's pretty embarrassing! Lol. I try my hardest to be really self-aware but that moment I was seriously stuck. Apparently he, and probably everyone else around us, saw me smile at him from a distance. He always claims I pursued him, but it took quite a bit of effort for him to time it just right so that he could help me load my groceries into my car!!! I was so nervous I basically brushed him off. My great-grandfather always told me, "It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt". I was practicing those words of wisdom in that moment, but Isa wouldn't have it. He ever so smoothy said, "How are you going to smile at me like that and not let me ask you for your number". It was a wrap. I was all kinds of giddy and I said some corny line about how he was "easy on the eyes". He eventually got my number but, of course, in true Isa fashion, he made me wait a VERY long time before he reached out to me. It ended up that Jasur and Yaqin were both attending Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School at the time, the very place I was interning as a therapist. So the majority of our conversations revolved around the boys (that has not changed...lol). I got to know the boys on my own at the middle school (something he would have never let happen in another scenario, but like he always reminds me "I do what I want and live in my own head" haha). I quickly fell in love with this incredible father and his three boys. It has been almost four years now and I could not feel more grateful for all of them.