heart day

I didn't post anything on Valentine's Day, so this is my heart day post.

The manly man and i aren't particularly big heart day people.  I mean to say that we love each other deeply all year round, and Valentine's day doesn't get a lot of extra attention.

Birthdays and holidays are similar.  At Christmas, we mostly buy for everyone else - not so much for each other.  And on our birthdays and anniversary (which are three days in a row), we celebrate the most - basically by being together.  Sometimes we do something special.  In '09, we bought a house - decided that was going to get us through Christmas and few other things.  Some years, we spend an exorbitant amount of money on a nice dinner - or maybe just Denny's and a movie.

This year, we were in the saving-money-way at Valentine's time, so there were no big to-do's about the holiday. But i'll tell you what i told my husband.  A sincere loving conversation about how much we mean to each other means more to me than chocolate or roses or whatever.  And i was right.  It was.  The security and comfort of knowing my husband thinks as much of me as i do him - would be as lost without me as i would be without him - loves me more than anything and holds our marriage as a sacred bond - is truly priceless.

And then we had pork chops.....in our house that we bought together......with puppies in the corner, chickens in the coop, and a noisy cat meowing by the food bowl.

It doesn't get THAT much better than this.  Well, it might, but this is pretty good!