Celebrations

We are now thirteen weeks into Will's deployment. It's another week down and one less that we have to spend apart. But we hit an even bigger milestone this week. One year ago on August 15th, I opened my email to find a message from Billy, a high school crush from ten years ago. Intrigued, I responded wondering what in the world he was up to. It went something like this:

Will Andreotta August 15, 2009 at 4:50am
Hey:

Long time no talk. Congrats on the nursing school!!! How is everything else going? I am just done with some leave in the States. As bad as it sounds, I am dreading going back to Italy....The more I spend away from the States the more I want to go back...

 Hope things are going well. Keep in touch.
- Billy

Lindsey Baskette August 15, 2009 at 11:10am

Hey! So good to hear from you. Things are good here. I'm living in Charlottesville and will start a job as a labor and delivery nurse at UVA in October. I'm also the house mom for one of the sororities here so that keeps me young and busy.

I can imagine being away from beer and baseball is hard. I got in a fight with Italy when I discovered they don't serve ice in drinks. All I wanted was something cold to drink;-) so are you flying planes all over europe or what? Fill me in on what you are doing over there. Take care.
Lindsey

They say that prince charming won't come knocking on your door, that you have to go out and live your life to find him. But he sure came knocking at mine, or at my inbox anyway. He claims that his intentions were more than just friendly chit chat and I felt the sparks immediately. Emails bounced back and forth before I ran into one of his pilot buddies at a wedding in Colorado. We knew that my running into a mutual friend who flew halfway around the world to be at this wedding was anything but coincidence. The next thing I knew, he asked if it would be too forward to call me. How polite is that? I couldn't wait to hear his voice. Then there were flights booked to Paris, stargazing at the eiffel tower and bottles of wine in quaint French brasseries. The rest is history, but it all started with one little email. He took a chance, I gave it back and we ran away with love. My prince charming found me, half way around the world, at the perfect time in our lives. I can't wait to have him home again!

One year "re-connection" anniversary flowers