October Twenty-Sixth

Today is the first October 26th in 7 years that we aren't celebrating as our "anniversary" anymore. We have a new one now, and although a wedding anniversary is much more official than a dating anniversary, it is a little bittersweet to be starting over. I don't think an October 26th will ever pass by without thoughts of how our story began. We were sixteen and chatting on my front porch after a school event that we had attended "as friends" when Kolby kissed me. We awkwardly didn't really speak much for a couple days afterwards and then eventually decided that we might as well start dating since we'd already kissed and I suppose that means we both like each other :). He proposed to me on that same front porch almost 6 years later.

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In other news, I presented part of my thesis research on micro-credit yesterday at the Baylor Symposium of Faith and Culture: Bottom-Up Approaches to Global Poverty. I was pretty nervous about it because it was my first time to do a presentation for anyone except other students in my classes so I was quite intimidated by the audience of professors from universities all over the country and ministry practitioners from all over the world. It went really well, though, and now it's time to get back to all of the schoolwork I've been neglecting.