Happy Valentine's Day

Here's hoping that you are enjoying the romance that everyone deserves on Feb 14th. It's a day when red and white and pink are prevalent. Red roses and white lacey cards and pink tulips and carnations. That is what my house is filled up with. Chocolates abound and so do red heart shaped jelly candy. We here at Nicholsville West farm have a tradition of giving a cut out heart, usually red or pink, with a few words to those we love declaring our undying love. This tradition started with my Grandfather when I was a girl sooooo ..... 35 or so years ago, when he wrote..... Oh my Barbie little Barbie how I love you no one knows, But may you never have to go with a pimple on your nose. I still have that Valentine in my keepsakes, and so began a tradition which has brought laughter and tears and no small amount of heart palpatations.

Hubby and I started our day with a nice sleep in. We never got up till 11:30 a.m. and what a nice sleep in it was. Very relaxing. And more important, very rare! Love, after 17 years together, is very different from the days when we were first together. Sleeping in constitutes romance and though that sounds lame I really appreciated a little cuddle time. No getting up and getting breaakfast for everyone. Hubby got to linger with me and we loved every minute. The minutes before getting up when we roll over and wrap our arms around each other is always the best time of the day.... but on Valentine's day when the minutes become hours.... its just such a lovely, decadent time for both of us.

One of the most romantic things I have ever heard is the story of Ethel and Leo Rutlegde after 50 something years of marriage, both of them in their nineties and Leo's failing health was coming to a close. He had been in and out of consciousness for days and then the day before he died he came to consciousness and Ethel was sitting by waiting by his side as she had always been and slowly he whispered, "you know, I've been very fond of you Ethel my dear."

No grandiose declaration of everlasting love just simple appreciation for the woman who had kept him company all those years.



How could I not love this????!!!

Happy Valentine's Day and I hope you find joy in the caring... just simple joy in the caring with the one you love.