Feels Like Home...

I think thats what Love is all about. It just feels like 'home', like they belong, like they have been there the whole time. So I felt the night I realized I loved Rumba...

After a weekend of getting to know each other in person, showing him around town, dancing up a storm at the Rock, sledding or "sliding" as he calls it, watching movies and talking til all hours of the night, the week started and I still had work obligations. Not many because I asked for several days off while he was there but I still had trainings for my juvie job so I had to make that drive out to Crookston and leave him alone in my apartment. Poor guy! I felt really bad leaving him there but he was fine. He entertained himself while I was gone and didn't complain at all.

had a lot to be excited about while he was there. Everything that our relationship was about online translated to real life. And the best part is that there was this incredible attraction and chemistry between us. I think thats a huge advantage for us because we got to know each other before the other stuff got in the way. I think it makes our chemistry, spark, attraction whatever you want to call it that much stronger as it does our love.

But as I unlocked my door and walked in I saw him sitting on my couch, watching tv and having a snack. And it was at that particular, completely ordinary moment that it hit me. He's home here. On my couch, watching my tv, eating my food and smiling at me as I walk in the door. He was right where he was supposed to be. I knew I loved him at that particular, completely ordinary moment.

The rest of the week was just a whirl including a dinner with my parents, a Sioux hockey game and other fun stuff. Our last night together was the hockey game and after we went to Optimist park for ice skating. We were the only ones out on the ice just skating under the dark, starry sky. It was a beautiful night and it was snowing just a bit. I am not very good on ice skates and he plays hockey so it was quite a funny site. He didn't let me fall, we raced a few times and he let me win.

Per our agreement, we didnt discuss anything in the future during our trip except that we revealed our love for each other the night before he left. We both feel that our love was there before we met. It just seemed that we were given this out of the blue chance to meet and this is what it came to.

The day he left was one of the hardest days of my life. The goodbye at the airport was really really hard and I cried the whole way home and for most of the day. After he got home, we talked about it and decided that the long distance was tolerable and that we would work everyday to being together.

And that's what we are working towards, looking for, seeing at the end and the beginning every single day...home.