My Husband

I met Paul on the second day of law school back in the late '70's. He asked me out for coffee and being the super cool girl that i am, i blurted out that i don't drink coffee. Bless his heart, he didn't drop me at that point, but continued his effort to get to know me. Needless to say, we married in 1980. We both finished law school, took the bar exam and got jobs as "real" attorneys. I worked for a big defense firm who happened to represent Ford Motor Company. I had clerked for the senior partner while in law school, so when i passed the bar, he decided to make me do a lot of the traveling that was necessary to prepare cases for trial. At that point in our marriage, we knew we wanted children, but we also knew we had to start paying our gigantic student loans. So we worked. About 3 years into the marriage, i started wanting to see if children would be in our future. It took quite a while before i actually became pregnant with Molly. Thinking back, I am so glad that Paul and I had the foundation of 5 years in our marriage before we had Molly because we sure needed a solid foundation between the two of us when Hurricane Molly entered our world! So my advice to all young couples out there; don't rush into parenthood. Even the birth of a normal child can rock your entire way of living. The last thing you need is the stress of silly arguments when you are living on little sleep and painful boobs (for those of us who breast fed, you know what i am talking about!)