From ten years ago to three kids later

[lathany]

Ten years ago today, Dom and I went out on our first date (to a pub in Cambridge). We moved in together two years later and got married the following summer (1995 - the first RPGSoc wedding).

Today we have a seven year marriage and two kids (or three - according to Zac and Emily) to show for it.

Comments

[unknownid.livejournal.com]

7 years? No kidding! Man, time flies. Congratulations. Making a go of marriage is downright unfashionable in this day and age. Rock on.

It's hard to believe that when I started hanging out with Dom you two had only been going out a year (that's right, isn't it? Because that was at least a year before you moved in with each other). It already seemed like such a done deal.

Yay, marriage. Yay, babies. Yay, time... it turns kittens into cats and friends into old friends and dates into marriages. And apartments into homes and ramen noodles into lovely roasty salmon with mustard-rosemary sauce (that's what I made last night and it was damn good, too. ten years ago i could just about make spaghetti carbonara).

it's all making me feel very cheerful, and I thank you.

Why thank you !

[lathany.livejournal.com]

Dom's done a year-by-year breakdown to answer a few of those questions.

What's possibly more scarey is our ages (or specifically Doms) plus the speed of it all - married in three years of which two were a long-distance commute. A year or so back a couple of undergraduates got engaged and everyone said that they were "too young". However Dom was 21 when we got engaged and 22 when we got married (I was 24 and 25 respectively). No-one dared to tell him he was too young.

;-)

Dawn.

Re: Why thank you !

[floralaetifica.livejournal.com]

That's cos Dom always seemeed really old :)

Can't believe it's been 7 years. Seems like yesterday. And that makes Emily 7 too, which must be positively middleaged for a cat.

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

First RPGsoc wedding? Sorry, not so. You could possibly claim it to be the first one where both participants had only ever been members of RPGsoc and didn't reach back into the mists of D&Dsoc-land, but there are at least two couples who were both in D&D/RPGsoc and are now married (I'm half of one of them).

[lathany.livejournal.com]

First post-Conclave wedding (ie the start of the current era) - when the society suddenly had a daily social life.

Also first wedding where the vast majority of the guests were the active society members (ie. still undergrads/postgrads). Equally where the majority of the active society members were guests at the wedding.

Plus - I can't tell who you are from your Live Journal.

Dawn.

[bibliogirl.livejournal.com]

Deliberately so, yes (and not specific to you). Answered in email.