My Life as Annie hosts the weekly Time Travel Tuesday and asks us this week about the day we first met our future spouse.

Jim worked as an usher at college his freshman year, my sophomore year (he’s six months younger), and I would see him in the aisles seating people and thought he was a nice-looking guy. I knew that he also worked in the library, where I worked, but we never worked the same shift, so I didn’t meet him that year. The next year found us scheduled at the same time, though he worked in the Periodical Room and I worked at the circulation desk. But he had to pass by the circulation desk as he went to and from the Periodical Room to retrieve older copies of magazines that weren’t out on the shelves, so at some point I said Hi and introduced myself. That was very out of character for me — I was terribly shy and reticent growing up, but going to a smaller Christian school my last two years of high school and getting involved in things like yearbook and student council, which I never would have even attempted previously, then being in the dorm at a Christian college were some of the things the Lord used to draw me out of my shell.

So our first meeting was pretty much just meeting each other for a few minutes at work. Annie asks whether it was “love at first site” or whether it took longer. I mentioned in the “First Date Edition” of Time Travel Tuesday that it took a bit longer. I always enjoyed working when Jim was there and enjoyed getting to know him, but even after we went out the first time or two, I was still thinking of him as just a good friend. But, as I mentioned in that post, I was very excited when he did ask me out that January. We continued to get to know each other and our relationship continued to grow, and I had to work through some issues — more details are in a post about our love story from a carnival Barb at A Chelsea Morning had on that topic last September. I like to think that we grew into love rather than falling in it. 🙂 We dated for a year and a half, were engaged for six months, and have been married for 27 1/2 years.