Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. In my heart of being a girly girl, I love Valentine’s Day. Just to be thought of with a simple card or flowers (they don’t have to be Roses) is truly what I love. Hubby on the other hand doesn’t like the fact that there is a day set aside to “make” you show your love. So we will have to see what tomorrow will bring here in our house.
I do want to take a moment to remember one Valentines day a very long time ago (ok, not so long, but twenty years, is that long??). I was in grade 10 and every Valentine’s Day you could buy roses and have them sent to your sweetheart in home room. My sister always sent me one, which was really sweet, so I would be thought of even if I didn’t have a boyfriend. But, along with her rose, I received a rose from an admirer. All the card said was “I tip my hat to you”. I thought I knew who it was from but, he said no it wasn’t him. It wasn’t until years later that I found out that it was him, and I never got to tell him I knew. It was a great day though, all my girlfriends trying to figure out who it was that sent it.
Since then, I have had many fun filled Valentine’s Day’s. Some spent working, serving dinners to the love struck or tending bar and listening to the not so love struck cry about being alone. And some being treated to an evening out full of surprises. After “J” came along we started getting together as a family for a Valentine’s dinner. Although this year everyone seems to be so busy, that we will just be us tomorrow. But, that is fine with me two, because card or no card, flowers or no flowers, I will be with the two greatest loves of my life. The only way it would be better, is if “A” was here with us too. He misses out, but I’ll save him some special chocolate sweet thing for dinner on Wednesday.
Happy Day before Valentine’s, may you all be surounded by the ones you Love.
I thought it would be fun to watch the opening ceremonies for the Olympics last night. Which were all in all pretty great. I got quite teary-eyed while listening to the speech from the Olympic President, or was it the President of Italy? Anyhow, the speech went on to ask for peace. And for [all athletes to play fair and get along no matter their religion, nationality or the country they came from]. It was great. If only it was so simple to get what we ask for, then perhaps the whole world could live together in peace.
I have to comment on the music, as was brought up by Whoorl, what was with the music while all the athletes were filing in? They were playing some really old funky disco-ish music. I laughed a few times and wondered why on earth they chose those particular songs to sing.
I loved the women carrying in the Olympic flag. Sophia Loren looked gorgeous as always and Susan Sarandon looked amazing and was smiling so beautifully. I felt I was having a proud moment for them, being the first women to carry in the flag.
And today we won our first Gold Medal!! YAY!! Jennifer Heil won gold in the women’s moguls. Great Job Jennifer!! And the Women’s Hockey team won their first game 16-0 against Italy. (I do feel sorry for the Italian Ladies, but it is their first year and they got to play because they are the host team. They played a good game and looked like they were having fun).
Will continue to watch the games and hope that the Men’s Hockey team can ignore the silliness out there surrounding the Gretzky’s and play hard to win. Go Team Canada Go!!
It has taken “J” getting sick for me to sit back and reflect on how much he has changed and grown since last summer.
He keeps telling me he is “OK” every time I wipe his nose or take his temperature. He seems to understand that I am a little more concerned about him when he is sick as opposed to days when I let him run free and not follow with a tissue.
He is having more independant play, for which I am greatful. He has started to have conversations with his action figures. The Rescue Heroes are his favorite right now, so he plays with them and tells them to put out fires and rescue. It is so adorable to watch, I feel as though I have waited a long time to see independant play.
We also had Thomas, James, Edward and Percy all lined up at the table being served yogurt! “J” took the yougurt out of the fridge himself, grabed a spoon and started feeding all his friends. Now if only I could get him to eat his yougurt too, then we would all be happy.
He also fell in love with his “My First Leap Pad” we got on sale after Christmas and decided to wait a bit to give it to him. We broke it out last Friday and it has been a hit ever since. It is like his own “game” but instead of a video game it teaches him things. It isn’t his first “Leap” product, he has the alphabet centipede and an alphabet tablet, but this one tells stories and he just loves it. Now we need to buy another book or two, maybe a Dora one 🙂
Having his first cold in a year hasn’t been so bad after all, he is just starting to catch on to the fact that after two days it hurts to wipe your nose. And Hubby is definately a sickie too, but I can only take care of one at a time, so he gets leftovers, poor guy. So far so good, I am not sick at all, but am getting ready to start my fertility experiment, so it should be fun.
