Snow Days

Today it is white outside. It is cold. It is icy. I am home in our warm house because School – AKA work – got cancelled. It is a day most people nap or get warm by a fire, but today I am taken back.
Today I can’t help but remember some of my favorite memories of Justin and me. A little over 2 years ago we had just decided to take our friendship to the next level. We had been close for a while and had basically been dating (going out to eat, watching movies, going out of town for day trips) but we had just decided to take the leap of faith in each other and ‘get together.’ I remember WOSC had cancelled school for a few days. At that time we both worked there so that meant we both had the days off. I lived in my TINY 300 square foot efficiency apartment. It had a dorm fridge and 2 burners – I had a toaster oven that had to work as my stove. Since I have bad luck driving in ice – that is for another post – I didn’t leave my apartment for a few days. When I woke up I texted my lovely boyfriend so that he would come over when he woke up and he showed up with stuff to cook breakfast. So he made use of my tiny kitchen and made some food. At that time it was still a bit awkward – we are use to being best friends and hanging out all the time and now it was a tad different. To overcome that we tried to be just like we had been. He ended up getting stuff to make lunch and dinner those 2 days so we basically spent every waking moment together. We spent our time by making a pathetic snowman – it had fruit loop eyes, was made of only the snow on the stairs and patio and a running hat on! - , beautiful snow angels in the grass downstairs, watching movies and doing what we have always done best – talking. We had always thought each other was ‘the one’ but I think those 2 snow days really sealed it for us both.
Today is not as fun of course because he is at work. When he came home from lunch I asked him if he knew what days like today remind me of and without missing a beat he said those days in my little apartment when we started dating. Those were days that we will never forget. It was so fun falling in love with the man that I now call my husband. We already knew what each others favorite color was and what each others favorite song was from our friendship, so I remember learning how he likes to kiss and how being romantic with him would never be a challenge – just natural. We were just simply 2 best friends that had fallen for each other in ways they never knew were possible. After our snows days we knew it was just a matter of time before God laid it on our hearts to get married and start our lives together as man and wife. But I think it was in those 2 days that we started our forever life together.