You blame Dixie for everything!

(Posted by Gayle)

It’s the one year and 2 week anniversary of meeting the idiosyncratic Sarah “Dixie” Feldman LaRue (and not a minute too) Laite.  Most of what follows is all her fault…

We were between Dallas and Ft. Lauderdale doing everything in our power as individuals and a couple to not meltdown in the Hartsfield Airport in Atlanta.  When we reach Florida we are to board the Ruby Princess and travel across the Atlantic to Portugal, Spain, Gibraltar, and Italy.  But there is a problem.  NO PLANE and no plane means we are going to be late to meet the Laites and there is no such as late when it comes to cruise ships – they call it MISSING THE BOAT.

To understand why all of this is Dixie’s fault you need some history regarding all the  things that have changed in our lives since we met her in April of 2008 on a (you guessed it) cruise.  It was a first sailing for us and for Dixie.  The cruise was sponsored by Hay House Publishing Co.  We were there to learn more about the craft of writing and getting published, but we got more… much more than we ever really bargained for.  We got Dixie.  Since that time she has been instrumental in getting us to…

• Become facebookers, myspacers, linked in’ers, (she now lobbying for us to add Twitter.)
• Leave the pc world, drink the Apple Kool-Aid and become rabid “MacPeople” (yes she even had a hand in that.)
• Create our blog which has over 100,000 words of content mostly on the topic of marriage, blending families, macaroni and cheese, and the unique needs and concerns of the May December couple.
• Go to Vegas for the first time.
• Become swingers (as in Swing Dancing people!)
• Dress like a flapper era gangster and his moll for the never too late Laite/Feldman nuptials.
• Make a trip to NYC for said wedding which was written up in the New York Times.
• Sail across the Atlantic Ocean to ports in Portugal, Spain, and Italy as we accompany them on their honeymoon.

Some of the other significant (perhaps even life changing events) of the last 12 months are:

• Having a series of prolo therapy and platelet rich replacement therapy in various painful joints as means to regain our youthful vim and vigor without surgery.  (Please note this treatment involved approximately 1 bazillion needles in each joint area, but has made Swing, Merengue, Salsa dancing, and Waltzing possible for us!)
• Becoming good friends with a podcasting family in London whom we have never actually laid eyes on, but have collaborated with on their PodCast and communicated with on a regular basis.
• Through facebook, reuniting with two of Gayle’s very special cousins and one of her closest friends in high school.

Between April 2008 and now we’ve busted out of our comfort zone and didn’t even scream, that is until Saturday when we realized we were in serious danger of MISSING THE BOAT.

-continued tommorrow-

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