Found

  When I started this blog, I was a dating rookie. For the first time in my life I was able to date and find out a lot about myself and what I wanted and didn't want. In a way, I feel like I have evolved into a new person. But really, I had to go looking outside myself to find out that all I ever really needed was within me all along. It isn't what the world held for me, it's what I can bring to it.
   Having gone through all of this, I was finally ready when I went on my first date with "the guy", Peter. From the start we were effortlessly on the same page. There was no drama, or long periods of silence where I had to wonder what was going on. Never, have I been with someone who cares about me so much, and is unquestioningly there for me. He is a man that I can giggle with about Brawndo, as much as I can have a debate on the ethics of patents on a genetically modified soybean. He inspires me to push myself, whether it be to play soccer or to expand my horizons with food (no small feat).
  Over the holiday, he met Jake, and it could not have gone better. The three of us went snowshoeing together, in four feet of fresh snow at Donner Lake. My toes were numb, teeth chattering, but the sight of the two of them trekking through the powder, warmed me up instantly. Not only did Jake like him, but he looked up to him. We spent the week there with his family, and it felt as if Jake and I always belonged.
 I don't know how to express how much it means to me to have found someone who feels like home to me. Loving him has been the easiest thing I have ever done in my life. The last few years have been hard, but if the path led me to him, then it was all worth it.