Valentine’s Day 2011 Started out a bit rough!! My boys didn’t want to get ready for school so they were late. My car started over­heat­ing going to work, had it towed to my favorite mechanic — Danny’s Import Ser­vice in Lewisville. Hop­ing for the best — and thank good­ness there was no major dam­age. Happy Valentine’s to me, my car was fixed. I didn’t have to go get the Odd­ysey I’ve been want­ing, yet…but I will much to my hus­bands dis­may. Luke and I ate at Fat Cows in Lewisville, it was my first time and the food was REALLY good! I fin­ished my home­work for class due next week. Always a plus to fin­ish the assign­ment on time. My pro­fes­sor gave me a GREAT WORK email. Need to start study­ing for the exam. Picked up my car and headed home to pick up the boys to watch Gnomeo and Juliet at Stu­dio Movie Grill. It was a great movie! My hus­band gave me a bread maker, he was told he should never buy any­thing that plugs in by the peo­ple at the store. But I LOVE it! I already made my first loaf and it was really good!! I bought him a pair of oak­leys. He seemed to like them. I guess Valentine’s is just another day when you don’t have some­one to spoil you. By all means I wasn’t spoiled and it almost felt like it could be just another day! I LOVE YOU are very strong words and hon­estly I haven’t heard those words in I’d say well over a year except from my chil­dren and my sis­ters. Just hard to know some­one loves you and they don’t tell you. Putting my feet in some­one else’s shoes is not very com­fort­able. For years I did not go out of my way to tell Luke I loved him and I am regret­ting it now. I have pushed the roman­tic side right out of him and now…really Valentine’s day whats the point…it’s just another day!

Love never gives up.
Love cares more for oth­ers than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on oth­ers,
Isn’t always “me first,“
Doesn’t fly off the han­dle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of oth­ers,
Doesn’t revel when oth­ers grovel,
Love
Takes plea­sure in the flow­er­ing of truth,
Puts up with any­thing,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
Love never dies.
[1 Corinthi­ans 13:4–8 THE MESSAGE]

After read­ing this…I needed to see that maybe I’ve been to con­cerned about “me”.…Just read­ing the words I know Luke truly loves me even if he NEVER tells me!