New "married 30 something" group anyone??

Better-Balance-We usually vacation on Fripp Island, SC about 40 min. past Beaufort roughly 1 1/2 hours drive to Hilton Head. We can see Hilton Head from Fripp Island it would pretty close if you could go over the water!

I love that part of the country. My family had/has a time share in Shipyard Plantation for about 20 years. I went every summer until I went to college. We used to see the same families every year and made friends there. Good times!

So I just thought I would pop on here once in awhile so that Matt doesn't feel all alone. It is strange me gaining weight while he is losing weight. Tracking all the junk food I am eating this pregnancy is really not fun to watch all those not so nutritious calories so I only humored Matt a few times. But overall not gaining really excessively... Baby #4 and I have gained 14 lbs at 23.5 weeks. But that starting weight was already up 10 lbs that I gained the first month I went off my medication when we decided to try for baby #4... so really I am saying I have gained 24 pounds already.

As for all the newbies, anyone is welcome! Just join right in. Matt likes to throw out a question of the day to keep the board active. Anyone can request either of our friendships though I am not really active on here right now. After July I am sure I am going to needs tons of support though! Plus, if Matt keeps losing and I keep gaining we will pass each other on the scale going opposite directions. This will not make me happy at all and is my only motivation to not gain too excessively this pregnancy.

I am 35 years old and a SAHM. I have been married 10 years and we have 3 very active children. We have a daughter who is 7 (on Saturday) and twin 3 year old boys. You guys add me I need all the support I can get!!

Sorry but none of the above..I LOVE DIsney World and I get exercise while there with all the walking every day PLUS the kids LOVE it! Planning a Disney cruise for september 2011. I will really have to watch my food not as many choices as the parks.

I would take any vacation!! We go to Disney World and love that. Of the three you mentioned I love to also go to the beach. We combine camping and the beach sometimes - there are a lot of great camping places at Myrtle with tons of stuff for the kids to do. I would love to go to New York City! I've never been there and have always wanted to go.

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Thursday Question: How did you and your spouse meet?
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Love your story Lorina!!

Matt and I also met on-line but not in the dating sort of way. I worked for a head hunter agency and in my down time I would browse the internet. I was not a recruiter, just an admin who did it all.... from payroll to insurance packages. One day I was going through personal web pages that were linked to the local radio station. I attempted to contact anyone whose page mentioned any kind of IT work. Matt was one of several people that I wrote but the only one who wrote me back. He was going to ignore me but since I mentioned seeing his webpage linked to the local radio station he thought I was a cool recruiter and gave me a courtesy email back. That should have been the end of it, but then he wrote me back from his work and I saw he was a contract employee with a Ford email address at the time... since many Ford contract employees were in my building I thought I better write him one more time (how odd it would have been if I had been trying to recruit someone in my own building!) He worked in another building, but somehow responded again and somehow - very quickly - the emails went from business to personal.

When I realized we were both being flirty I went back and looked his page up again. I was horrified as he was over 3 years younger and still living at home, while I was a 26 year old divorced mom with an almost 3 year old. I figured we were hitting it off so well that he would still make a great friend... apparently I was right!

So our joke is that since I couldn't recruit him for our company that I recruited him for life instead!!

Thanks for the question Lorina!

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Thursday Question: How did you and your spouse meet?
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We worked together at a school for kids with special needs. The "motor room" (where the kids came for physical therapy with me) was in a partitioned part of the gym, within eyeline of the milk chest for lunch time. At first I thought it was strange that his classroom needed milk so frequently during the day and that they always sent him to go get it. One day we were talking about liking to hike and decided to meet up to hike a local mountain - neither of us know if it was "friends" or a "date." After hiking, I started to put together the frequent "milk stops." That hiking first date was over 10 years ago now!

My husband and my cousin were good friends in high school so we met through my cousin. We dated for a month and then i stopped calling him. He told everyone HE dumped me so I didn't talk to him for years! I ran into him 5 years later and almost didn't talk to him ( i was still holding a grudge). My sister forced me to go and say hi and we have been together ever since.
* editor's note: He has finally admitted the truth. I dumped him!

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Thursday Question: How did you and your spouse meet?
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I was his English teacher.


Ok, it's not really as scandalous as it sounds. I was 28 and he was 38 and I was teaching English as a Second Language classes to adults in the community. He was something special from the very beginning - giving me that feeling that the whole world seemed brighter knowing that he exists. As his instructor I couldn't really do anything about it until after the class was over, but when he did not show up for the test the last day, I called him to find out why. He said that he lives an hour away, had some issues with his car and couldn't make it, and was disappointed because he had a gift for me and couldn't give it to me. In a moment of audacity, I asked him if he wouldn't mind if I went to the city he lives in to see him. The rest is history! We've been married for three years and I have never been so happy.

I was just recently introduced to MFP and I have to say what a great site!
I am 34 years old, married 3 years this coming May, and I am a mother to 2 amazing children.

We met through a friend. I was moving to town and a mutual friend told both of us that we should get together and talk about our separate Peace Corps experiences. Because of the years we finished PC (1996 and 2002) I thought he was older and he thought I was younger (turns out we are less than 1 yr apart). I opened my door and we both mentally went "Hmmm!" We got married on the 6 yr anniversary of the day we met.

Great question and such fun stories. My husband and I actually met in college. I was a cheerleader and we were recruiting football players to cheer with us during basketball season. We cheered together for two years, and honestly didn't get along that well. We were pretty good friends, but he just drove me crazy, to be honest. Kind of one of those love-hate relationships lol. It wasn't until the end of the second year that I started liking him as more than a friend. Of course we were both dating other people and then I graduated. He stayed at school that summer and after we both broke up with the people we were dating we started hanging out. We started dating and it was only about 4 months before he proposed and we got married a little over a year after we started dating. We will have been married for 12 years this summer with three beautiful children.

I am a hired wife LOL. No really, I went and applied for a job and my husband hired me. He was my boss and we had to keep our relationship a secret. Noone knew we were even engaged until I quit working there so we could get married. That was 10 years ago and we have been happy ever since. DH loved to tell people he hired me. Even during my interview I though he was a cutie and obviously he felt the same. I got "interviewed" about 10 minutes than he started talking about his personal life instead. Good thing I needed a job an applied or I may still not be married.

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Sat behind her in a class at college. The rest is history. :-)

The man's side of the story, short and sweet! I think I need to tell Matt to reply to this answer BEFORE reading my version! LOL

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When I met my husband, I was engaged to someone else...lol. My husband, Martin, and I worked together. We would double date (him with someone else and me with the fiance). And if we weren't double dating, we would always hang out with a group of friends from work. It's funny...Martin and I never went out alone as friends. We were always surrounded by other friends but somehow we would end up sitting next to each other and having very interesting and meaningful conversations. We seemed to have so much in common and became great friends. The relationship with the fiance obviously didn't work out. I made a career change and no longer worked with Martin but we kept in touch. We knew each other very well. At that point, we had been friends for 3 years. There were no secrets (so I thought). Martin was in a band and would often invite me to attend his performances. I never attended any of his performances until Martin expressed that this one performance was a special one. So the group of friends and I decided to attend and support our talented friend. When we showed up to see him perform, he was shocked and pleased to see us. He mentioned that he had written a song for me and couldn't wait for me to hear it. Surprised that he had written a song for me, my friends and I were curious to hear it. The last song he played was my song. He introduced me to the crowd as his best friend...and then said, "You're beautiful and I hope you like your song." The song was about how he loved his best friend (me...hehe...**swoon**) since the first moment he saw me...that he wanted to reveal his feelings for me but obsticles would prevent him from doing that. The song was lovely. But the song caught me by surprise and I didn't know how to react. I made a terrible mistake and left before talking to Martin and telling him how wonderful the song/my song was. Please understand that my husband (at that moment...at that time) was my very best friend. I wasn't sure if I should allow myself to think of him more than just a friend and possibly risking our friendship. We didn't speak for months after that incident....Then one day, he called. He asked me out on a date...no other friends were joining us...it was just us (me and him). So...we went out on our first date... and I'm crazy about him. :blushing: We've been married over 10 years and we have 3 wonderful and beautiful children. God has truly blessed me with the perfect man for me...