Five Years

Exactly five years ago today I met Bert.

And less than a week ago, this man brought me a surprise indoor picnic to my work - where I was working on an insane 30 page paper for graduate school. I'm talking he grilled out and brought real dishes...all in a picnic basket he climbed up in the attic to get. And he brought peanut butter M&Ms too. Perfection.

I told him that was the second sweetest thing he had ever done for me - the first being the time I had a really bad sinus infection and begged him to read Us Weekly to me because it hurt my head too much for me to read. He did - cover to cover.

These have been the best five years of my life. Ups and downs for sure, but this man is my rock. So even though we drive each other crazy sometimes, I thank God (and Julie!) for bringing us together.

Because every once in a while, something like the picnic and the Us Weekly reading will remind me that while life isn't a fairy tale, fairy tale moments do exist. People do indeed get swept off their feet.