It was a time before the Internet, when cassette tapes and music videos reigned supreme. A young Erica Ehm would throw to the latest from Pearl Jam, all the while growing tired of the industry-types she was dating. Terry Moshenberg was different. He worked with computers. Little did Ehm know that Moshenberg would leave the tech sector behind in 2006 to found League of Rock, and she would parlay parenting into a wildly successful blog. This is how they met.
How they met
We met on a blind date set up by a Jewish matchmaker named Eve Potok. The crazy part of the story was that neither of us hired her. She just made it happen.
Their courtship
We really hit if off when we spent a long Thanksgiving weekend up at a farmhouse in Ravenna with a bunch of our friends. We got married exactly a year later.
The proposal
We had just bought our home in Chaplin Estates. It was a serious fixer-upper. It was a beautiful fall day. We were standing in our empty, semi-derelict house and Terry pointed to the corner of house and said, “What’s that?” It was a small ring box! I picked up the box, and he got on his knee and proposed in our new home. Then we walked to Grazie to celebrate.
The ceremony
(and honeymoon)
We were married at the King Eddy. It was a great party that continued late into the night in the same suite where John and Yoko had their love-in. We went on a honeymoon five months later (and four months pregnant) because we had to finish our house renovation. We drove the Pacific Highway from San Fran to San Diego and explored the towns along the way. It was romantic and sweet, except for my constant morning sickness and the fact that we were in wine country but I couldn’t drink.
Their lives today
The irony is that when I met Terry I was in the midst of extricating myself from the music business. I was partly attracted to Terry because he wasn’t in the music biz. He was in high-tech marketing. Five years into our marriage, he created League of Rock, and I created Yummy Mummy Club. So today we’re both running large entrepreneurial businesses from our home. Our kids are blessed because, even though we’re crazy busy, we both are there for them.
Where they live
We’ve been living in the same home where Terry proposed at Chaplin Estates for 14 years already! We love our neighbourhood, [what] with the Neshama Playground, the Davisville Subway, Starbucks and a pharmacy all a few steps away.
Their secret to success
We both share the domestic work. Terry is an amazing father and husband. He loves that I’m incredibly ambitious and hard-working, [which is] probably because he is, too. We both socialize a lot apart, so we never have the ball and chain feeling.
