we're getting married

I worked in NYC with Helen (Emil's sister). When Helen was leaving for school in London, I went to Chicago for a last weekend together before she left. If you ask me or Emil the backstory, it's pretty clear Helen set us up... and it worked! We talked on the phone every day after that... until Emil decided to come to NYC a month later. This led to 4 years of long distance (first Chicago to NY, then Boston to NY). Then I finally moved to Boston and we've been here ever since. Ohh and we have a cat that we're obsessed with named Billie!

I got home from work on a random Thursday night. House was a mess. Emil was making spaghetti sauce. He said "wait right there! I have something for you..." He proposed right then, in front of our sink full of dirty dishes. He didn't even pause the old Sopranos episode playing on the Ipad. It was perfect.