I'm engaged.I knew this day would come someday and now that it has come, it has been hard to adapt to the new idea and to all the consequences this decision implies.It was not a perfect day. Mother's day in El Salvador is celebrated on May 10th, it was a day full of celebration to my different mothers and a hasty day at work as well. Not a gift, nor a congratulations card... nothing. I felt a little gloomy and sad about it... at the end of the day, my boyfriend and I went to my mother's place to put Ana Paola to sleep, he noticed I was not feeling myself and so he decided to “talk about it”.

We sat down at the living room and when he turned to face me and started “talking” I saw in his face a smile I had rarely seen on him, and his face was glowing. He said: “you are sad because I didn’t give you anything on mother’s day, however I do have a gift for you” and then he kneeled down… I don’t know what kind of face I made when I saw him doing that because he just started laughing and so he started:

• “I want to give you my life, which is my present for you today, I want you to take it and take care of it. I want us to be together forever because you make me a better man, because I am happy with you and I want to know if you want to do this with me; Will you marry me!?”

He then popped out from his pocket a key holder and took the keys out and gave me the steel ring attached to it, my temporary engagement ring… “take care of it, save it and remember the first ring I ever gave you”

BUAAAAAHHHHH!!! I can’t recall the exact moment when I started crying… I just know I cried. I couldn’t believe it… I even got to think he was joking… I think I even asked “are you serious?”

So I’m engaged… wow… that means a lot. Funny how the world works…really funny!