Delivering a Full-Term Marriage

Ryan and I had been dating for 3 months and 5 days when we got engaged. I would have said 'yes' after 2 weeks. Ever heard the saying, "when you know, you know"? It is so true. I realize that we will have our skeptics and possibly even some pregnancy rumors (no baby in this oven and won't be baking one for a couple of years to come!) because so many people are just skeptical of "just knows."

Thankfully, I know it can lead to a "happily ever after!" I lived with an up-close and personal view of a "just knew" love story...a happily ever after that happened in an unconventional time frame. My Dad asked my Mom to marry him on their 3rd date. Seriously, their THIRD date. They were seniors in high school and had not ever really hung out before their first date...and by the third date they both *knew*. Dad asked on my Grandparents' front porch. My Mom said, 'yes!'. They were married the August after they graduated and have been married now for 36 years and counting. Not only are they married, they are happily married. My parents flirt with each other. My parents support each other. My parents genuinely, obviously love each other. My parents are a team and are in it for the whole game...no substitutions, no quitting, no pinch hitting.... they are in it to win it....a "happily ever after that just knew."

So for all those skeptics or "wonder-ers".... Ryan and I will be delivering a full-term (lifelong) marriage that will arrive on August 28th, 2010. Funny thing is that I went online to one of those due date calculators for expectant Moms and when I typed in the date Ryan and I started talking as the conception date, our due date would be August 24th, 2010. The way I look at it...if someone can grow a person that requires a lifetime of love in 9 months...why is it so hard for some to believe the same time frame could grow a union filled with a lifetime of love?