The forgotten anniversary date

I'm also wearing a bff heart bracelet today too because I remembered after 6 years of forgetting because of grief, that the beginning of February is also the anniversary of the first time my husband and I met.  It has been 25 years this year.  

If you haven't heard our story--get ready because it is a good one.  We met on the public bus--yes I said bus--in Utah it is called the UTA.  We were both attending college but at different colleges.  I was working as a scholarship assistant which just means I was a secretary to one of the deans but I didn't get paid in money my work paid my tuition.  That day I actually had a friend who was going to take me home, but, because I had messed stuff up I had to work later than normal so I took an express bus that I hadn't taken before.  I was exhausted and ornery from my hectic day so I just wanted to sleep on the way home so I put my bag on the seat next to me so people would sit elsewhere.  Roland got on after I did and asked if he could sit by me.  I reluctantly said yes and moved my bag and then he started talking and I inwardly groaned because I really wasn't in the mood to talk to anyone.  He persisted, and soon we were both so involved in our conversation that the 30 min. just flew by.  I was amazed at how friendly and easy he was to talk to and how happy he made me feel and he was hot looking!!!  Dumb me I didn't even ask for his phone number when I got off the bus taking my dream man off to who knows where.  I floated home and told my Mom that I had met my Prince Charming--the man I was going to marry.  One week later at my cousins wedding I caught the bouquet--it was destiny--only I had no way to find Roland.

Fast forward 8 months to October of that year, I had graduated from college and was now working as a legal secretary and he was working on his 2nd to last semester of college.  I had just about forgotten about my dream man until a chilly October morning when I had to take an earlier bus (yes a bus again!!)   to work than I normally did because I had gotten behind in my work, when low and behold I walk down the aisle of the bus and there he is.  I felt kind of dumb just sitting next to him and saying hey remember me especially because I wasn't 100% sure it was him, so I sat behind him.  Guess who found an excuse to ride the early bus for the next little while????!!!  It took me about 3 days of sitting behind him before I finally worked up enough courage to sit next to him and ask if he remembered me.  We rode the same bus together for the next 3 months.  A little over a month after our 1st anniversary of meeting on the bus the first time we were engaged and 8 months after finding each other for the 2nd time I married my Prince Charming just like I told my Mom I would.  It has been a lot of ups and downs especially these past 6 years but I am so grateful Heavenly Father guided Roland into my life so that we could rejoice together on the up days and comfort and help each other on our down days.