I love you 365 days a year.....

Ohhhhhh Valentine's Day....people either love you or despise you. I feel neither. Dave and I never made a big deal out of Valentine's Day. Oh wait, well our first Valentine's as a married couple he was out of town. So we celebrated on the 15th. The next year he thought it would be special to celebrate on the 15th again, but he forgot to tell me that. So I was pretty ticked on the 14th. So needless to say that tradition didn't last long. Nice try buddy. Then when little sweet baby girls came along, our Valentine's day became more of sharing our love as a family rather than just the two of us. Then.......I became a preschool teacher. And Valentines day was full of helping the little ones show their love for each other and for their families. So the gushy, smooshy love stuff that Valentine's might mean to some never really applied to us. Just a day to buy each other our favorite candy (or for Dave, his favorite pistachios).

Maybe we should have spent more time concentrating on each other, making the day more special, but we loved each other 365 days of the year. We were always so practical....So today didn't particularly bother me to be alone. It bothers me EVERY DAY to be alone. No more magnified today than any other. I can buy my own dang candy (and I did, hee hee). And I never wanted flowers...they weren't practical. They just
died, and I had to clean the nasty water, and it just wasn't......practical. But he still bought them. But one year, his brilliant self, bought me this felt/silk flower. You know, this everlasting "flower" that would forever show his love. Really? But I have kept this flower in a place that I see it every day, but never really look at it. Just a thing to take up space and collect dust.

But recently I looked at it closer. I never ever realized it had "I love you" embossed on one of the petals. How did I miss that? I saw it had some kind of design on it, but never knew it said "I love you". My guy was so sweet!!! Little did he know that buying me that lifeless flower he would be sending a message so much later of his love for me. I will cherish it even more now. I will remember his love was not just stronger on one day, but he loved me all 365 days.

Don't wait until Valentine's Day to show those around you that you love them. Never take for granted one single day. I'm glad I knew my guy's love everyday!! And I'm glad God has reminded me of that by using that little flower