In the spring of 1993, I met a fellow Aggie while touring UT Law School. She later called me and told me she decided to go to Baylor Law School instead. I told her I had made the same decision. She asked if I wanted to room together, and I said sure.
In the fall of 1993, we moved in together and started law school. On the first day of orientation, we spied another girl. She looked pretty cool, and more importantly we had already figured out that she had gone to Baylor as an undergraduate as well. So we walked up and starting asking her questions - important things like where we should go to get our student ID.
A few weeks later, the three of us were studying together in the library. That's when a guy came up to us asking us some sort of question about our legal citation assignment. (He always tells us that he picked us because we were the three hottest chicks in our law school class. And we always go with that.)
We graduated from law school in 1996. Shortly thereafter -- and all within a year -- we each got married. The girl from Baylor undergrad married her college sweetheart, who had followed her to law school the following year. My former roommate and Aggie married the guy from the library. And lastly, in May 1998, I married Cort, who I had met in law school in the nick of time -- right before my last quarter of school.
Years passed and both our professional and personal lives intersected and diverged and intersected and diverged again.
We started to talk about how each couple was thinking about having children. And how having them wasn't as easy as we anticipated. In fact, the day that Lara announced to me that she was finally pregnant was the day that Cort and I decided to take more initiative and see a fertility doctor.
Five years later, we had ten children between us. TEN. 2004 was a particular banner year, with half of those ten children being born that year. (Official count: 1 kid in 2003, 5 in 2004, none in 2005, 1 in 2006, and 3 in 2007).
In January 2011 -- over seventeen years since I met these people in law school -- we continued our annual tradition of spending MLK weekend at Roger and Chrissy's (the library guy and my Aggie roommate) ranch. The sixteen of us - six adults and ten kids. And except for the extra people, nothing seems to have changed much between us. We are still as close and comfortable as we were back in law school, and are floored that seventeen years has gone by.
A few weeks later, the three of us were studying together in the library. That's when a guy came up to us asking us some sort of question about our legal citation assignment. (He always tells us that he picked us because we were the three hottest chicks in our law school class. And we always go with that.)
We graduated from law school in 1996. Shortly thereafter -- and all within a year -- we each got married. The girl from Baylor undergrad married her college sweetheart, who had followed her to law school the following year. My former roommate and Aggie married the guy from the library. And lastly, in May 1998, I married Cort, who I had met in law school in the nick of time -- right before my last quarter of school.
Years passed and both our professional and personal lives intersected and diverged and intersected and diverged again.
We started to talk about how each couple was thinking about having children. And how having them wasn't as easy as we anticipated. In fact, the day that Lara announced to me that she was finally pregnant was the day that Cort and I decided to take more initiative and see a fertility doctor.
Five years later, we had ten children between us. TEN. 2004 was a particular banner year, with half of those ten children being born that year. (Official count: 1 kid in 2003, 5 in 2004, none in 2005, 1 in 2006, and 3 in 2007).
In January 2011 -- over seventeen years since I met these people in law school -- we continued our annual tradition of spending MLK weekend at Roger and Chrissy's (the library guy and my Aggie roommate) ranch. The sixteen of us - six adults and ten kids. And except for the extra people, nothing seems to have changed much between us. We are still as close and comfortable as we were back in law school, and are floored that seventeen years has gone by.
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