The year was 1995, but once you stepped over the threshold, you were in 1927. It was the first time she time traveled. That night, she danced the Charleston for an audience of strangers and from the corner of her eye caught him watching her from the crowd.

The Hermitage in Hohokus was a magical place.

Nine months later she traveled again, stepping out of 1996 into 1935. She left herself at the door and assumed the role of someone else for an evening... a fun and mysterious evening filled with history, mayhem and... murder.

Leaning in with a curious grin, "Do you think he will be here again?"

"Oh please, mom, I highly doubt it!" Her curt reply masked the curious excitement bubbling inside. She had been wondering all day, in fact. But upon entering the historical home once again that evening, a fleeting glance quickly drowned the excitement with disappointment. He was no where to be seen...

Just concentrate on this sheet, she whispered in her head, glancing over the floating words in her hands.

Then she heard it.

The familiar voice prompted her to instinctively follow it... to glance at the library where he was standing in the doorway.

For that moment, their eyes met.

He was here... that was all she needed to know. Excitement surged through her evoking a smitten smile.

The evening unfolded as expected - drama incurred, dinner was served and the mystery solved. She met up with him at the end, mother beside her, the three making familiar small talk.She didn't realize fate had sealed a deal that night.

During the course of the following year, after receiving a ingenious letter of introduction from this gentleman, the two embarked on a romance. He encouraged her to time travel with him as volunteer actors in the Whodunit Mystery Dinner Series together raising funds for the preservation of the Hermitage.

At the anniversary of their fateful second meeting, they stole the show at the closing of that night. To an audience of patrons mixed with good friends and her mother, he bent down on one knee to propose to her.

I became the time traveler's wife 13 years ago today... Happy Anniversary, Robert...

xoxo-Sonya