We’re Engaged! 💍

On our vacation to Pennsylvania, he popped the question… and of course, I said yes.

We’ve both been married before, and let’s be honest — neither of us picked particularly well before. But we refuse to let those old stories keep us from writing our own. We are not our exes. We carve our own path, and somehow, we fit together perfectly.

He’s the first man I’ve ever been completely myself with — no secrets shoved in the closet, no parts of me hidden away. He knows it all. And he’s still here. That kind of acceptance is rare, and I don’t take it for granted for a second.

If you’d asked me years ago if I thought I’d be engaged again — becoming a bonus mom to an 8-year-old and a 13-year-old, wrangling a bulldog named Snoozanne, a bunny named Dennis Hopper, a tank of fish, and occasionally shooing bears out of the yard — I’d have told you you were crazy.

But here we are. And I love every bit of it — the chaos, the quiet moments, the way we navigate challenges as a team. Our life together isn’t a fairytale — it’s messy, loud, and sometimes covered in pet hair — but it’s ours. I love the life we’re building and the home we’ve created.

We’ve been through enough to know how lucky we are to have found each other at this stage in life. This engagement isn’t about flashy proposals or big social media reveals (though, yes, you’re getting this post) — it’s about a commitment to show up for each other every day.

With all my heart, I know I’m exactly where I’m meant to be. And I can’t wait to see where the rest of this story takes us.