On October 2, 2016, I experienced a love I had never before known. It was the first time, since meeting my husband, I fell in love at first sight. That was the day my first child entered the world and I became a mommy. I knew my life had changed, but as they placed that little guy on my chest, I had no idea how much different things were about to become.
My husband and I met five years earlier in a small beach town on Long Island. It was a typical story of boy meet girl…at 12:30am in a bar. I saw him enter the bar from across the room and patiently waited for him and his friend to make their way over to me. When he finally did, I batted my eye lashes, fixed my hair and made my move. Being the charming man he is, the moment we started speaking, I was smitten. This was the first time I experienced “love at first sight.”
Flash forward to that brisk October morning, I had discovered I could love someone I had never met before. I was introduced to a new man, my little boy. This boy caused me more pain than I ever experienced yet when I saw him tears of joy streamed down my cheeks