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I love Valentine’s Day. The chocolate, the conversation hearts, Cupid sending little arrows of love shooting through the air. Romantic dinners, wine, and taking the time to remember all the reasons we fell in love.
As romance writer’s this is the like our national holiday. “Love, True Love.” The line from the Princess Bride can still make me laugh today. But in the movie Westley’s love for Buttercup stands the test of time.
Although she’s become engaged to another (she did think her Westley was dead), he will not give up and go to the ends of the earth to rescue her, even if it means his death.
Do I want Science Guy to go to the ends of the earth to rescue me? Nah, I’m here with him. But to know that he would, yep.
I was in my choir sunday school class about seven years ago and the man who was teaching the lesson was speaking on love, lasting love. The kind that continues even though you’re mad at something your loved one does. The kind that works through the problems to become stronger at the end of the day. The kind that never lets the sun go down without saying, ‘I Love You’.
His wife of thirty years was seating in the front of the class and she’s smiling as he continues talking. Then he turned and took a cardboard box from the table behind him and opened it. What he took out was the most ratty heart shape box you’ve ever seen.
Tears began to slip silently down his wife’s cheeks. This was the first box of chocolates she’d given to him. It hadn’t been a big box, and of course the chocolate was gone. The red bow on the thing was faded and truthfully, I think it was held in place by tape in several areas.
When he opened the box, it held the cards she’d given him through out the years among other things. He told her right there in front of us, he loved her and would love her for the rest of his life.
Now, that wasn’t a story of going some place special, although they may have later. But it was a man who had been married for thirty years who wanted the world and his woman to know he still loved her. He cherished her and had for all those years.
Yeah, that’s the kind of thing I’d love to happen to me.
What about you? Anything special happen to you that you’ll never forget? Or to someone you know?
WW’s and PD’s,
Vicki
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Okay, another great story of tenderness. Man, Vicki and Melissa are making it hard on the rest of us gals for this week.
I’m starting to sweat this topic
Truthfully, I don’t think my hubbie has saved any love letters from me. I could be wrong, but I know where most everything is in that house, and I ain’t seen ‘em. I’m impressed when a man saves love letters and cards – usually they throw that stuff away. But the ugly plaid shirt he’s had since 1991? The baseball cards he had when he was a kid? Still got a death grip on those
That’s so cool! I got Hubs one of those 5lbs slabs of chocolate from Hershey’s one year (I think our first Valentines). It said something like Happy Valentines and has our names on it.
HE WOULDN’T EAT THE CHOCOLATE! Eight Valentines later, he still has it! The whole block, still in the gold box. It looks just as fresh as the day he opened it. He thought it was too neat looking to eat.
When he looks at it, I don’t see thoughts of love or memories in his eyes. I see his mind churning of how cool the bar looks and how neat it must be to write in chocolate
Don’t even get me started on the baseball cards, Amy. They’re packed in boxes and lined down the back of the couch. Right along with hunting magazines he bought 5 years ago. Yeah. Those puppies are getting a lot of reading time.
Love comes in different ways for all of us. And even though I like to call myself a romance writer I don’t celebrate Valentines Day…once a year. My HHB and I agreed that if we couldn’t say we loved each other everyday, one day out of the year wasn’t going to make a difference.
Amy, isn’t it funny what men want to keep forever. Science Guy has tons of guitar stuff, which is okay since I’m into music myself. But really a broken pic doesn’t help anybody. And it’s not like the thing is signed by someone. Hmmm…maybe I should sign it. Heehee
Keri, how cool is that. And while he may be eyeing it with wonder of writing in chocolate, the fact that he kept it say tons. Most men would have thought it was really cool and then eaten the thing.
LKap, I get what you’re saying. Science Guy feels the same way. He does things all year that says I love you and he doesn’t like the fact that Valentines Day is a day made by card companies to get him to buy a card and chocolate. Doesn’t stop him though.
We don’t really do anything for Valentine’s day. For us it isn’t that big of a deal. We love each other and show it the whole year. I don’t think T is the most romantic guy out there and that’ cool with me.
Brandy, I’m with you on the everyday thing. And romance isn’t always about the flowers, candy, or the card on a certain day.
To me, it’s about coming home to dinner started or waking up and the coffee is made (this is a big one for me since I drink coffee alot), SG knowing I’m really tired and he runs a bubble bath for me, tells me to get a book and go relax. And a BIG one, it being okay to say hey, love you, gotta go write, and do so for the rest of the night.
This was so sweet, Vicki! And the fact he did it infront of others is priceless!! What a special guy.
Keri, my husband’s mom was keeping all his love letters. Not sure why, or what made her decide to give them back to him 15 years later! I was like, is your mom trying to tell me something? LOL
Did you read the letters? I would have I’m sure.
I totally forgot about my parents. When my dad worked for the railroad company he would have to be gone sometimes three months at a time. They would write each other everyday. I was grown and helping my mom clean out her storage closet when I found the letters. I read one, blushed really really red and handed the box to mom. But it was so sweet to know as an adult the love affair my parents still had for each other.
LOL! I tried! Really hard, but hubby wouldn’t let me. The worst part for me is not knowing what the heck he did with them.
Wow! What a great thing to find out about your parents! In today’s world, it’s wonderful to know that true love can last.
LOL, Melissa. I was helping Hubs clean out some of his stuff (I think we were engaged at the time) and we came across a box of love letters from an old flame. He wouldn’t let me read them either. And I don’t know what he did with them!
I do remember asking him WHY he was keeping them and I dont’ recall getting a direct answer. I’m sure there was a lot of um’ing though.
I’m with Amy! The standard is being set pretty high. Maybe I’d better concentrate on something besides romance, although I have to say the stories have me smiling gently at the laptop! I love the story about your parents, Vicki — the ‘rents sometimes seem completely removed from anything even roughly similar to what fills our adolescent (and post-adolescent) imaginations.
I remain a great advocate of long loves, though, now that I’m old enough to have some sense. Was listening to a program on NPR today featuring some author who’s written a book about how we’re living so long now we frequently have new relationships late in life, and it was full of divorces, etc., among the married 20, 30, even 40 years set, and the host seemed to think that was wonderful that these folks went out and found new loves, and it just made me sad. Now I could undoubtedly find someone less grey with fewer wrinkles and well-established habits, but what would such a paragon do with ME? In my book, intimacy wins over novelty every way.
That is a wonderful story. I havent had anything like that happen to me but I hope it does one day.
Beppie, I’m with you. It makes me very sad to see marriages break up after 20, 30 , 40 years. My own did and truthfully it needed to many years before. But even though it was something I needed to be out of, it was sad to think something that was supposed to be for life couldn’t work.
Now Science Guy and I…it’s a forever thing and I know it. But we both believe in making it a forever thing.
Hi Donna – thanks for stopping by. It’s cool when you read something like that. I save things, but honestly not to the degree some people do. Then laer I wish I had saved some of it.
What a cool story! I’ve never had anything like that happen to me.
Hi Deborah, I know, right. I’m so glad you stopped by.