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2/12/2014

thanks for the valentine's day memories

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“It’s the little things that count the most.”  We have all heard and probably said this phrase many times, but the past year has really made a believer out of me.  As Valentine’s Day approaches, another first without Mike, I am reminded of our past Valentine’s Days.  I always gave him a card and you can know that I read many cards before I found just the perfect one.  Sometimes they were funny and sometimes they were serious, just according to the mood I was in at the time.
Mike, on the other hand, always gave me a gift.  Sometimes he would include a card and sometimes he would not.  Most of the time, he gave me a box of chocolates, you know the kind with the different flavored stuff in the middle.  The kind that most people do not like, but he knew I loved those things.  I could eat the whole box in one day.  However, there were lots of years, when I would be dieting, imagine that, and I would tell him to please not buy me candy.  So on those occasions, he would buy me something crazy.  One year it was a big stuffed frog holding a big red heart that said, “I love you.” Another time it was a dancing gorilla singing some goofy song.  On another occasion, it was a bouquet of dancing and singing flowers.  He would usually bring the gifts to me in my classroom and so my students would enjoy them as much as I did.  You know they love to push buttons.
This year, there won’t be a card or a crazy gift and that’s okay because I know that he loved me and I know I was his Valentine.  And I also have these wonderful memories from the 38 years he was with me.  I have every card or gift that he has ever given me and I will pull them out and read them on Valentine’s Day.  And I must confess, last week I was in Wal-mart and as I approached the Valentine’s aisle, I started walking really fast so I would not have to see those cute little crazy gifts. But then something stopped me and I turned and went back.  I slowly walked down the aisles trying to decide which one of those silly things Mike would buy me if he was here.  And it actually brought a smile to my face. Thanks for the memories, Mike.  I love and miss you!

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