Where it all started...

On a Monday morning flight for work from ATL to LAX, after 5+ hours in the airplane, a migraine and an embarrassing in flight incident involving a broken bathroom lock, I stood with my head just barely grazing the center luggage compartment in the middle seat of a very crowded plane.
After a few moments, I heard someone speak behind me.  I was just barely alert and trying to calculate my next move through a city I had never visited and to what I was told was the worst part of town-Compton.  I looked up for just a moment, glanced over my shoulder and heard the guy immediately behind (in the same predicament, only a foot taller than me), say "How 'bout that middle seat?"
I smiled and shrugged it off, not really in the mood to talk and we both exited the plane at a snails pace with the crowd in front of us.
The next thing I knew, he had rambled off-"Don't I know you from somewhere?"  "I don't think so."  "Where did you go to school?"
After twenty questions and small talk through the airport, we realized we had gone to UGA at the same time, but that was about the only connection possible.    We said good bye and parted ways at the baggage claim, he raced out to catch a taxi, and I waited--what seemed like years--on my luggage, while trying to call the rental car service.  The next thing I knew, there he was...running...back into the airport with a crumpled business card extended.  He said, "Give me call if you wrap up with your meeting in time.  I'll be around all week."
I politely took the card, thinking I would never use it---I was in L.A. for Christ's sake.  I wasn't going to go out with a total stranger!
After an hour to get out of the airport, 2 hours in traffic to Compton, only to hear from the client that there had been a mistake and I was no longer needed onsite--I had not only an evening, but 2 days to kill, and needed a drink.  He went to UGA--he had to be alright, right? :)
I sent the stranger a text message, saying my meetings had finished up early and I was headed back into the city--a couple of hours later I was picking him up on street corner outside of his office.  The rest is history...
A year later we got engaged--He proposed with "Will you marry me?" on the back of the same crumpled business card he had given me in the airport a year before.
April 23, 2011, we were married at Piedmont Park in Atlanta.  Now---here we are at the end of June, and we were are 11 weeks pregnant with TWINS!
Who would have ever imagined it possible to go from just me (and of course Mr. Harvey), to a husband, two kids and two dogs in so little time.


Life is good---more so, it's constantly full of surprises and everyday teaching me that it is impossible to have a solid plan for the next (even as the control freak that I am).  So, now--with a massive house renovation under way to prepare for the twins, a husband to feed, clients to manage, and morning sickness to conquer--I am learning (the hard way) to take it day by day and enjoy the fleeting moments.

3 comments:

  • Amy | June 27, 2011 at 9:25 PM

    Bridgette!! I love this!! What a sweet, sweet story :) I am so happy for you and excited to follow along - I am a total blog junkie! :) hope you're starting to feel at least a little bit better and that the morning (all day) sickness might be subsiding...?? xoxo
    ~amy

  • Melissa | June 28, 2011 at 7:13 AM

    I Love It! You've been there for everything in my life - and now I get to be there for you - Just can't believe that you'rehaving twins and I'm moving at the same time :( I Love You and you're whole crew!

  • B + 3 | June 28, 2011 at 7:24 PM

    Thanks, Amy! and thanks for reading :)
    Definitely feeling a little better---it was crazy--like a light switch this week, it just all of the sudden got a lot better.
    Had to laugh at your post about Libbi! Terrible twos ;)
    Mel---you know I love you guys, I can't believe you of all people are giving me a reason to have to go to Texas again, but I'll be there (and you'll be back--eventually!)
    - B

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