Valentine's Day . . . the bitter with the sweet

My Valentine's Day had it's ups and downs. 

Let me just tell you even though I really wanted breakfast to be perfect for Jason . . . it wasn't. I didn't get to completely finish his gift and my dessert I made didn't exactly come out the I wanted it to either. 

But the worst part of the day was finding something bad had happened to two of my sisters. All because of the man who should have been a father instead of a horrible monster. My heart has broken many times because of him. I've been sad, and mad at him for many things in my life and made some poor choices as a result of how he's treated me when I was younger. But this I believe is the ultimate top thing I've been furious with him at. It's one thing to hurt me, another entirely to hurt my sisters to the point where one has to run away just so he can stop being physically abusive to the other. It made me physically ill to learn about what happened. I wish I could have protected them. But all I can do is pray for them, that they won't let him screw up their lives and future. That they will not be in any more danger and that they won't let him ruin the image of men everywhere. Because as hard as it is to find good men in the world, there are some out there. I hope they will be safe while dating, and follow the Spirit. That when it is time to decide who they will marry, they won't choose a man who will hurt them. 

Anyway, that was the bitter.

Now for the sweeter parts . . . 

My adorable husband bought me my favorite flowers the night before and gave them to me. :) We were able to be together most of the morning and then he had to go to school/work. I took care of my boys and put them down for their naps. I then started to work on finishing Jason's gift. What did I give him?

80 origami hearts

1 for each day from Valentines to our Anniversary. 

On each heart I had written a reason why I loved him, or something I loved about him.

I had most of them finished when he said he was on his way home. With both Alyx and William already awake, I hurried to take care of them and put the hearts all over our living room walls. Which was quite difficult . . . taking care of a toddler and a newborn and rushing around like crazy. He came home and was quite surprised. :) He did not see that one coming at all. He gave me a kiss and read a number of them, then gave me my gift. 

My favorite candy bar, a really sweet thoughtful card that he wrote in that I will cherish, and a book called, "Furry Logic Love". He bought it because he knows we understand each other's unique sense of humor. I wanted to share some thoughts from the book. Some are funny, some are cute, and some are totally . . . interesting shall we say. lol.

Your love may be as close as I will ever get to heaven.    Jason says that my love is heaven. ;)

I'm sure I could make you happy, if only you'd lower your standards drastically.     I know that I didn't have to lower mine. He on the other hand . . . 

You are not perfect- but some of your imperfections are strangely attractive. 

I have you, you have me: at least one of us is lucky.     I'll be the lucky one. :) 

Am I too much for you? Or not enough?

As long as I have you, there's just one other thing I'll always need- tremendous self-control. 

Anyone can be passionate . . . but it takes real lovers to be silly.    Jason and I are pretty silly people.

How would you rate me, on a scale of wonderful to marvelous?

Caution: you are in danger of becoming essential to my way of life.      Heads up, Jason already is essential.

I want you, happiness, and chocolate, but not necessarily in that order.

You've told me you love me, but there's no harm in repeating it endlessly.

Loved the book, card, candy and him. 

Dinner turned out a success and even though dessert didn't look as good as I hoped it would, it still tasted really super yummy. :) My husband is soo good to me, I'm really blessed to have him as my eternal companion. I love him and my love for him grows stronger all the time.