Three Years Ago

About this time, 12:15 AM, on a Wednesday morning, Caleb and I were in the middle of pulling our first all-nighter (the first of many, many to come).

A little background for you...

Caleb had been in England for about three weeks and I was a freshman at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music for piano performance. I was about a month into my college career. Caleb was going to be overseas for the next seven months, living and traveling.

Leading up to this particular conversation was lots of casual email writing and some facebook exchanges, both of which had become increasingly more frequent the previous weeks leading up to this conversation.

We had just discovered IM-ing a night or two before this, so it was our newfound favorite way of communicating. I would sign on once I was in my dorm room and do homework until Caleb got online.

So this night started no differently. We began talking at about 7 PM on a Tuesday night and before we realized it, it was nearly midnight. But though I had some studying to get done for a music theory test the next morning, neither of us wanted to stop talking. So we decided that we'd take a break so I could study for a bit and Caleb would watch a movie, and then we'd keep talking. (I did well on the test for those of you who were curious to know...)

We kept talking about things, cyber-flirting, all the while somewhat probingly hedging around a topic we dearly wanted the other to bring up. We kept saying things like "What are you thinking now?" "So, any questions for me?" "I'm an open book..."

Finally, the topic was opened and we started talking about being interested in one another and life goals and what we wanted in a spouse....

The conversation ended around 7 AM on Wednesday morning, October 24, 2007. We decided within those 12 hours that we knew we wanted to get married. Caleb wanted to write my Dad a letter asking if he could court me. We didn't have a timeline or anything, but we knew that we had never met or talked to anyone else whom we felt we could marry.

And that was what Caleb and I dubbed as The Conversation when we realized we wanted to get to know each other for the rest of our lives.

I didn't need caffeine to stay awake from that all-nighter. I went to class practically buzzed with happiness and excitement beyond anything I'd ever experienced.

And my life with Caleb has been nothing but exciting since that conversation. :)


Here's the Quote of the Day:

"There is no relationship between man and woman so close as that between husband and wife, if they be joined together as they should be."

~ St. John Chrysostom