love, great dinners out with friends, and the difference between guys and girls.

I went out to dinner last night with my awesome friends Steve and Tamara. Steve and Tamara are DATING. Steve and Tamara are I-N L-O-V-E. Like for real for real, and it's been incredibly beautiful and wonderful to watch it unfold over the last year.

So last night we're out to dinner and every so often they will reference something about their future together. Like holidays will come up and they're trying to figure out where they will be, weddings will come up, and the phrase "Ours should be like..." will be said, or infertility will come up and "Well we'd probably adopt..." gets said (I'm not sure how all those topics came up over a chill dinner at a Mongolian grill, but they did).

It inspires in me a healthy dose of making fun of them combined with some OMIGOSHMYBEAUTIFULFRIENDISINLOVEFORREALWITHTHISAWESOMEGUYANDTHEY'REGOINGTOGETMARRIEDDDD!!!! giddy disbelief and joy as I watch Tam's face radiate when she looks at Steve... not even to mention the way he looks at her.

Yeah, I'm a sap.

So moving on. We're eating our spicy bowls of awesomeness and we are, in fact, discussing infertility which leads to adoption which leads to foster care. So Tamara and I get into this like, legit discussion about foster care. How important it is for Christians to be involved in, how Focus on the Family's new adoption incentives have reduced the number of kids waiting for families in Colorado in half, how we really want to make it a priority in our adult lives but also omigosh is it ever a big deal...

Anyway, Steve is kind of half in the conversation and doodling on his napkin. We're like, Steve, so what do you think.

He looks up. "Huh? Oh... sorry, I wasn't paying attention." We look at his napkin and he looks sheepish.

"Yeah, well... I was just thinking... you know how sometimes when people get married, they get stuff with their initials on them? Like, the last initial in the middle, and then the husband and wife's initials on either side? I was just figuring out how ours would look..."

AWWWWW, Tamara and I make isn't-he-cute faces at each other...

"And look," he continues, and shows us what he's drawn...

S H T

"...If you add just one letter to ours, it would spell-"

And, that is the difference between guys and girls.