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How did you meet your partner?
Posted on Dec 22nd, 2008
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quietlaughter
quietlaughter
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for December 22, 2008:
My husband, Ian and I met 14 years ago when he was working at the Boys & Girls Club of London with me. He was running a youth employment program, and I was running the youth wilderness summer camp program. I still remember the very first time we met – he was being given a tour of the building and I was working at a table in the hallway (planning the summer). He walked by me after he was introduced to me and barely said hello. I thought – what a jerk! Luckily we got to know each other quickly because we shared an office and I realized that we shared a very similar sense of humour and outlook on life.
We were both busy running around that summer – I spent weeks at a time taking 13 and 15 year olds up to Algonquin Park and the Bruce Peninsula teaching them wilderness survival skills and leadership training while he ran his program. Often, when I returned home I would find my office area hijacked with some prank that he and my co-workers dreamed up. I remember one time coming back after a week in the bush to find my entire desk moved and set up exactly as it had been in a basement stairwell in the building. We dated for six months, and then one night, at a youth dance he proposed to me. We’ve been married for thirteen years and have two daughters. I still am working at the Boys and Girls Club and he is a motivational speaker, speaking around the country to high school and university students. We still laugh a lot and work well together! He is my complement - my sweet funny man :-) He makes me laugh out loud. ;-)
la
We were both busy running around that summer – I spent weeks at a time taking 13 and 15 year olds up to Algonquin Park and the Bruce Peninsula teaching them wilderness survival skills and leadership training while he ran his program. Often, when I returned home I would find my office area hijacked with some prank that he and my co-workers dreamed up. I remember one time coming back after a week in the bush to find my entire desk moved and set up exactly as it had been in a basement stairwell in the building. We dated for six months, and then one night, at a youth dance he proposed to me. We’ve been married for thirteen years and have two daughters. I still am working at the Boys and Girls Club and he is a motivational speaker, speaking around the country to high school and university students. We still laugh a lot and work well together! He is my complement - my sweet funny man :-) He makes me laugh out loud. ;-)
la
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Cute story :) Sound like a great couple
Thanks Amber - we do have a lot of fun. He’s also a comedian so there is no end to the laughter here :-)
I love this story! I just love it. (And both of you too…. :) Your story is utterly perfect, delicious, wondrous, and filled with Joy!
Peace and Oceans of Love,
Jeannie
thanks so much Willow :-) I should add that when he took a short holiday - I turned his desk completely upside down (it was only fair)
hehe.. yes, you should add that.
hahaha - yes, we had a lot of fun that year working together. As it turned out, four years previous, we had worked for the same toy store in Ottawa but at different locations. When I returned home from living in Africa, I got a job working at “Toy World” - and often spoke on the phone to an “Ian” who never seemed to have the toy that I needed. We probably spoke hundreds of times on the phone but never met in person - who knew that years later we’d be working for the same charity! The world works in mysterious ways!!!
xo
Oh this is a fun story to read, la. I love learning these kinds of details about people’s lives. So cool that you met your husband that way….my husband went on his first wilderness-week with theBoy Scouts back in Algonquin when he was about 12. We’ve heard lots of stories about that week!