10/29/2026
I’m posting this on Thursday because Saturday-I will inevitably forget, remember sometime around 4:30 in the afternoon while making sandwiches, and wonder where the last 21 years went. So, in a rare display of planning ahead, here we are.
This Saturday, Halloween, marks 21 years since I met Will. Which means our relationship is officially old enough to legally buy itself a drink. And frankly, after everything we've put it through, it probably needs one. 🥴
Our love story began in the most romantic of places: a Dunkin' parking lot in downtown Salem Massachusetts, where I yelled something at him about liking his Blood For Blood T-shirt. Apparently, that was all it took. Twenty-one years later, here we are. Romance, folks.
I don't think either of us could have imagined what the next 21 years would look like. We've watched two of our parents grow older and pass away. We've celebrated some incredible moments and endured some that I wouldn't wish on anyone. We've laughed until we couldn't breathe, cried until we had nothing left, made mistakes, taken chances, started over, and occasionally wondered what on earth we were thinking.
We've seen each other at our absolute best and, believe me, our absolute worst. We've had the ugly moments, the ridiculous adventures, the moments when everything seemed possible, and the ones when we weren't sure how we'd make it through the next day.
Somehow, along the way, we decided buying a country store along Fury Road, renovating it, and opening it together sounded like a perfectly reasonable next chapter. Because apparently we hadn't challenged ourselves quite enough.
And here we are. Still getting up at an ungodly hour, still making each other laugh, still occasionally driving each other absolutely insane, and still figuring things out as we go.
Twenty-one years ago, I liked his T-shirt. Turns out I liked the guy wearing it, too.
Happy 21 years to my favorite person to do all of this ridiculous, wonderful, terrifying life stuff with.
And to think, all of this because I couldn't keep my mouth shut in a Dunkin' Donuts parking lot. ❤️