Mike says we met on the school bus in 1979. He was 7 and I was 5. He remembers this because he says he had a crush on the girl his family called "mouse". (This was the endearing name my uncle gave me at Halloween that year and it seems to have spread.) However, all I knew when he walked into my workplace 15 years later was that he looked familiar.....and extremely gorgeous! As he made conversation, some of our history came back to me. As time went on, I learned that our families had been intertwined at several moments in time. My grandmother played in a band with his grandfather, my mother had played with his dad as a child at their family farmhouse, his grandfather had come to the aid of my grandmother the day my grandfather passed. We were engaged a year later. Keeping in mind that God's timing is perfect and all things work according to His plan....skip forward 20 years. Reconnected, renewed, and ready. We were family from the start and can't wait to make it official before God and all of you.