Valentines Day Surprise

My sweet husband sent me these today…

He hasn't sent me flowers in awhile so they were a BIG surpriseJ 

He also gave me a lovely card.  He  gives me the absolute

BEST cards…they always say just the  RIGHT thing, as if
the card was made just for us.

 Thank you, honey…the card and the roses are just perfect,

but not as perfect as YOU!  (Well, maybe you aren't exactly perfect...but very close to it!)  You are and always have been

my special VALENTINE.

Happy Valentines Day to all my blogger friends.  Hope you
have a sweet, sweet day.

LOVE LETTERS

I adore LOVE  LETTERS!  I met my husband in high school when we both transferred to a new school in 9^th grade.  These are NOTES that he passed to me during many classes...when we should have been paying attention to our teachers:)  Love the way he folded them!  I’ve kept them all these years in this little wooden box.

In 1971, a year after we were married, my DH was sent to National Guard training camp many states away.  I only saw him once in four months.  However, we kept the mailman busy with LOVE LETTERS back and forth several times a week.  I still have all the ones we each wrote to the other.  Just can’t bare to part with them.  Every few years I take them out and read them and fall in love with him all over again. 

 (Did you notice the 11 cents stamp?)

I tend to be a pack rat with anything that is sentimental.  In this other little wooden box that my father brought back to me from one of his trips when I was a little girl, I still keep the box that held my engagement ring and the orchid that was part of my bouquet in our wedding.

My DH is also wonderful with cards.  He has this uncanny talent of choosing the most perfect card for my birthday, our anniversary, or Valentines Day.  It’s as if the card was written just for us. 

This one he gave me before we were ever even married...it’s huge.   I think I’ve kept every card he’s ever given me.

People don’t write letters of any kind much anymore due to email and cell phones, but to me there is something so special about a handwritten letter.  And a LOVE LETTER written in the hand of one you love is absolutely the best.

DH asked me this week what I wanted for VALENTINES DAY.  Although I always love his beautiful cards, a LOVE LETTER would be even better.

Instead of giving your Sweetie a card or gift this year, why not write a LOVE LETTER instead?  We can never hear I LOVE YOU too much.

Hope all of you have a lovely and sweet VALENTINES DAY...share some love with someone special.      And to the wonderful man I married...HAPPY VALENTINES DAY...you are the best husband in the world and I am so blessed to be married to you.