How I Met Your Father :: Valentine’s Day

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Here at Fairfield County Moms Blog, we mostly focus just on the experience of the Mommies in the family. Moms are basically superheroes. However, we wouldn’t be Mommies if we hadn’t met the Daddies. Everyone’s story is different! So, in honor of Father’s Day on June 19, we bring you a brief series from several of our contributors entitled “How I Met Your Father.” Please enjoy!

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Okay, Kids. As Mommy and Daddy get ready to celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary, you may be wondering how exactly we met in the first place. Picture it, Valentine’s Day night, 2004. It was a simpler time  –  way before Snapchat and Instagram and the overabundance of selfies. Heck, I still used a camera that required film!father

What you probably shouldn’t know about that night was that we met at a bar in Stamford called The Thirsty Turtle. In fact, it was Daddy who helped convince the friend I was with to dance on the bar with me. Now before you both start getting all Judgy Judgertons on your dear mother, please understand that dancing on the bar is a very fun and freeing moment in a woman’s life. I suggest it to all ladies – no matter how old or what you look like. With that being said, your father was all the more eager to help a lady out and that, kids, was our first conversation.

What you probably need to know about that night was that Mommy didn’t want to go out at all. She’d been hurt a lot by various boys who pretended to be men and was pretty defeated in the love department. It was my wise Nonna who felt something in the air that particular Valentine’s Day and convinced Mommy to go out with an open heart. I can still hear her sweet Italian voice saying, “Go out tonight, Shannon. It will be magical.”

So there we were at the Turtle and it was getting close to closing time when I saw your father again. I’m pretty sure we started dancing to “You Give Love a Bad Name” by Jon Bon Jovi. It was 2004, after all, and cover bands were all the rage. I can’t say at that very moment that I knew he would be my “happily ever after” but I did know that he was different than the usual cast of characters I’d met before. At the end of the night, your father asked me for my number and wanted a chance to take me out on a proper Valentine’s Day date. Of course, I said yes! And that is how we began our journey to becoming a “we”.

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How Mommy got him to get rid of his Camero? Well, that’s a story for another day.

To read more in the series, How I Met Your Father click here.

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