Happy Love Day!

Ahhh, poor Valentines Day, the most hated of all holidays.

Here are some of the things I have heard,

"You should tell the people you love them all the time not just one dumb day a year." crabby lady

"It is just a reminder that you are alone with no lovey." sad, lonely lady

"It is just another reason to have to come up with ANOTHER gift for someone." CheapO dude

And while I see the point of all these people . . . I totally disagree!

Here are some of the fun things we have done today . .

The kids woke up to heart attacks . . .

Yummy valentine breakfast.

Fruit and yogurt salad with whipped cream and heart shaped toast and strawberry milk. I made poached eggs in the shape of hearts but they turned out more like egg blobs then hearts but the kids loved them anyway . . .

Valentine lunch.

Heart PB&J, red jello, red chips, red juice, strawberries and red twinkie . . .

My sweet valentine girl . . .
And the best part of Valentines Day is having one of these . . .

Terry is my fave and my bestie and I am the luckiest girl alive to be married to him . . . but gals let me tell you a little something . . . sometimes I don't like him very much and some days I think "what was I thinking?" and sometimes I don't pay attention to him very well, and he doesn't pay attention to me very well, and my feelings get hurt and I think "wow, eternity is going to be a VERY long time" . . .

If you have only had fireworks and rainbows with your lovey and have no idea what I am talking about, I am so glad for you, but I think that most of us feel this way sometimes about our eternies.

I really do feel like I live in a fairy tale and Terry is my knight in shining armor . . . It takes a lot of work! Sometimes it doesn't and maybe even most of the time it doesn't. We have the same goals, the same focus, the same interests (for the most part). But life gets crazy and busy and it is so easy to forget about the most important thing I think.

You have to be in love on purpose not just because you wake up every morning with butterflies and goosebumps. I love my valentine and without getting too smooshy . . . I love my man because I really want to love him and I am excited about our future and our forever, not because it is easy to love him all the time!

So when those times creep in where I am not feeling so lovey it makes it easy for me to get past (most of the time) because we work at it (we even read marriage books together, because we have never been married before people and don't really know what we are doing), and it makes it better all the time.

So go love on your lovey ON PURPOSE,

and have a GREAT VALENTINES DAY !