Two days after his birthday-(June 28th 2012) while we were at home and i was very depressed over my moms illness. He casually asked me what i would say if he asked me to marry him. I told him not to play with me because i was not in the mood for jokes. He got up and disappeared.

When he came back he asked me to look at him. I told him to stop playing the fool. To my surprise, when i turned around he was on one knee in the middle of the bedroom holding an open ring box with the ring that I had fallen in love with a couple years before. I had seen that very ring some time ago by chance and fell madly in love with it. When i showed it to him, he told me that one day he will get it for me.

My day was finally here!! I cried and cried, some tears of relief for one happy moment in the midst of my stress and for my mom who I'm not sure would have lived to see her only daughter  become engaged much less get married.

 After all my crying he just stood there looking at me. I looked back at him wondering why he was looking at me like that only to be told that i did not give him an answer! With all my crying i forgot to actually say “YES” to his proposal!

We laughed at this faux pa on my part and spent the rest of the night sharing the good news with my parents. I was on cloud nine!