My husband is a romantic, but he married a super practical-love-you-to-death-kinda-girl, -but-don’t-always-have-to-show-it. It’s how I was raised, and as much as I love to see love, I have not always been Ms. Affectionate. (That’s right, it’s Ms. not Mrs.– but that is entirely a whole different post)… Let me explain, I’m a feminist, and I love the use of Ms because I am not owned, as the original Mrs. suggest- but that’s my bag, baby.

I think he’s going to kill me for writing this, but I think that if he could photograph “Engagement Sessions” every day, he probably would. There is something SO romantic (yes, even for me), sweet, REAL, and natural about these couples in that state of ecstasy– when love is full of potential, not too much of the resentment, and not quite knee deep in working out your childhood traumas (and head case sttuuuffff)–you know, all the growing old kinda stuff.

So, I’m feeling a little nostalgic for that fairy-tale & urban style with a side of oysters. What??? Glen posted two couples he photographed earlier this month, and you know, I see why he loves these shoots… I think it may remind him of who he & I are at the core.

Yes, we have our own business, we have two maddening children (and utterly cute & delightful, mind you), and we try to keep our house clean (yes, photogs who walk in @3pm in our home with a kitchen full of breakfast dishes- we try!) Our life is crazy, we fight, we make up, we then travel because that is OUR WAY of getting out of our rut and remembering who we are.

Ok, this is starting to sound way too familiar… like 2 summers ago when we started our crazy drive to Central America. The only difference is that when a mom at school confesses to me how she does not feel close to her husband because he has a separate life than her & the children, I cannot relate. Yes, I deal with the girls a lot more, and yes, my husband works like a mad man, but I do not feel disconnected from him. Not now.

I look forward to our time in India for many, many reasons, but the No.1 is that we get to remember us.

Here are the couples that inspire us to remember love…

Ok, we never had THIS moment, but Glen is quite the charmer.

Life & people pass by & they are in their own world… yeah, I know the feeling.

We used to eat oh, sooo many oysters when we dated! (oh, no, we won’t be eating those in

India–I’m even scared in Venezuela to eat oysters, never mind India.)

And this is who we are, photo taken by Sarada (4yrs old–camera

definitely weighs more than she does)