it wasn't long before jimmy and i (james) started our love affair with email. It was one of those beautiful things we looked forward to everyday.
i don't really understand how simple words on a page can envoke such strong emotional responses - but they certainly did. And soon enough we started to yearn for these letter of the heart.
There were times where we would get so caught up in the moments that reality would subside and we forgot that our lives were thousands of miles apart.
before we knew it we decided that we needed to have our first skype date! But as a warm up to this we sent one another videos (which i highly recommend). If you can get past your self esteem long enough to stop obsessing over the way your mouth looks when you talk or the wrinkles when you smile. This will serve as a great ice-breaker to having someone actually staring and grinning back at you initally!
We sent a few videos back and forth of our homes and our towns never really being sure of what was going to come of any of it. All i knew was, i had asked god to bring me my husband and i was open to whatever form, place or planet he was at.
By this point i sure liked Jimmy, and i wanted nothing more than to find more and more ways to spend time together.
along came skype....
our first date was fun and it didn't take long for us to be laughing and looking forward to many many more.
There really hasn't been a day since we first started communicating that we haven't either written or seen one another.
Skype turned into the most amazing tool to grow love over such a grand distance. I was always either waking jimmy up first thing, and watching his sleepy grin as he spoke to me hazily. Or i was being put to sleep by his comforting words and loving heart.
Everyday our love was growing. It wasn't long (about 1 month in) that we realized we needed to see one another in the flesh. So we began to arrange a vacation for me to visit columbus OHIO.
During the next month our kids began to chat to one another on skype too, and we just couldn't help but feel alittle excited about the possibilities that were somehow playing out, right before our skeptical eyes.
Aug 26th....touch down in Ohio...
i don't really understand how simple words on a page can envoke such strong emotional responses - but they certainly did. And soon enough we started to yearn for these letter of the heart.
There were times where we would get so caught up in the moments that reality would subside and we forgot that our lives were thousands of miles apart.
before we knew it we decided that we needed to have our first skype date! But as a warm up to this we sent one another videos (which i highly recommend). If you can get past your self esteem long enough to stop obsessing over the way your mouth looks when you talk or the wrinkles when you smile. This will serve as a great ice-breaker to having someone actually staring and grinning back at you initally!
We sent a few videos back and forth of our homes and our towns never really being sure of what was going to come of any of it. All i knew was, i had asked god to bring me my husband and i was open to whatever form, place or planet he was at.
By this point i sure liked Jimmy, and i wanted nothing more than to find more and more ways to spend time together.
along came skype....
our first date was fun and it didn't take long for us to be laughing and looking forward to many many more.
There really hasn't been a day since we first started communicating that we haven't either written or seen one another.
Skype turned into the most amazing tool to grow love over such a grand distance. I was always either waking jimmy up first thing, and watching his sleepy grin as he spoke to me hazily. Or i was being put to sleep by his comforting words and loving heart.
Everyday our love was growing. It wasn't long (about 1 month in) that we realized we needed to see one another in the flesh. So we began to arrange a vacation for me to visit columbus OHIO.
During the next month our kids began to chat to one another on skype too, and we just couldn't help but feel alittle excited about the possibilities that were somehow playing out, right before our skeptical eyes.
Aug 26th....touch down in Ohio...
