Ok im here! Im not sure how long this will be but here goes.
I was born in May 12th 1982 in Darwen, Lancashire (north west England). I was the first child for my parents. A couple of years later my little sister came along and the four of us lived happily together for a while. As I was growing up I knew that there was tension between my parents but kind of ignored it for a while. When I was 9, my parents announced that they were having another baby. I was so excited about this, my sister wasn't! My brother was born in 1991 and my parents marriage didn't really get any better and they divorced in 1993. I've had very little contact with my Dad since this point. He does have regular contact with my sister and brother. He chose not to see me.
I loved school as a child and always worked hard. I knew from an early age that I wanted to be a teacher but was always to embarrassed to say anything. No one in my family went to college, they just got jobs straight out of school. As I was from a single parent family I didn't want to put pressure on my Mum for money to go to college so at 13 I got a part time job and started saving. I worked every weekend as a waitress in a little cafe and during the school holidays. After I left school, I went to college and then at 18 on to university. I changed my mind at the last minute before starting my course. I didn't want to be a primary school teacher anymore. I wanted to do a degree in English and then do some teacher training. This meant that I would go to St Martins College, Lancaster. I loved the university life and met some amazing people but hated the English course. After my first year I dropped English and continued with my Geography Studies. I knew at this point that everything would be ok. I loved my course!! I graduated from St Martins in June 2003 with honours. During my time at St Martins, I traveled to the USA and Canada. I worked on a camp in Western New York for the summer and then did some traveling afterwards. I went to some amazing places, Niagara Falls, Chicago, New York, Nashville, Washington DC to name a few. If I could have that summer again then I would do it tomorrow.
After I graduated from St Martins I knew I had to start getting serious about my life and get organised. I applied for teacher training at Manchester Metropolitan University to become a high school geography teacher. I also knew that i didn't want to move back home with my Mum. An ex boyfriend had bought a house and needed a tenant, I moved in with him for 2 years. We got on ok and everything was looking good. I had got my first teaching job and was looking forward to starting.
During the Tim i was living with my ex, I met Tim. I met him on the internet on a local dating site. We chatted online for a while and after I had been to New York for Christmas in 2003, I decided that I wanted to meet up with him. We arranged to meet at the shopping mall. I walked along the top floor and spied on him to check out if he was who he said he was!! It all turned out ok and we hit it off. We started dating in January 2004. We went on our first holiday together in May 2004 to Greece, put a deposit down for our house to be built in September and then went on holiday again in December to Canada. Tim was born in Canada so it was really nice that he took me back to where he was from. Our home was finally ready in July 2005 and we moved in together.
In May 2006 we went to New York for a holiday with Tim's parents. On Memorial Day Tim proposed at the top of the Empire State Building. I knew it was going to happen as we had picked a ring but I just didn't know when. It was really romantic, it was late at night but really busy. He didn't get down on one knee because it was so busy and he got embarrassed so he just whispered in my ear.
When we arrived home after spending the week in New York we got started on planning the wedding. We have been doing this ever since and its almost here. 2 months today!!!!!!!! We have continued to travel to the States and Canada and plan on moving to Canada in 2010. Tim wants to go back to Toronto and Im so excited about going.
We had talked about children but Tim had always put it off, I was happy to start a family whenever and stopped taking BCP when we moved into our house in 2005. One night in Dec 2006, Tim suddenly said that he was happy to start a family. We thought that it would happen almost straight away. How wrong were we! We have been trying on and off since this point and still not had a BFP. We haven't seen a doctor and if we aren't pregnant by September then we will go and see one.
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That's so cute how your DF proposed. As a New Yorker, I'm all for it 
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