Re: how to let our spouses KNOW for Valentine's Day

[Guest guest]

Carole:

Great story and great idea! Thanks honey, I'm no longer racking my

brain about Valentine's Day.

You are one very lucky woman!

Take care and be well.

Ellen

[Guest guest]

Hi Carole

What a lovely valentine surprise. I agree with you the small lovely things

done just when you need them is the best. I remember (years ago) I had just

had my first baby and we decided to buy a freezer to cope with extra baby

food etc. Well typically me I decided to make loads of cottage pies but I

did huge amounts I think I could have supplied Sainsburys anyway the time

went on and I hadn't even done half when baby woke up and by the time I had

sorted him out my husband was due home and apart from a kitchen full of

cottage pies no meal preparation done by this time I was very tearful and in

a state. Then I heard my husband's key in the door . Anyway he put his

briefcase down, put all the foil containers along the worktop and said right

you put the meat inand I will put the potato on the top we will have this

production line going in no time but the best bit was when the last pie

arrived he had drawn " I Love You " on the potato and that meant more to me

than all the diamonds in the world. We are very lucky aren't we.

Have a good day

Best wishes

Joan U.K.

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From: Stillsdisease [mailto:Stillsdisease ]

On Behalf Of worcspubl@...

Sent: 10 January 2008 23:28

To: stillsdisease

Subject: how to let our spouses KNOW for Valentine's Day

Hi Everyone,

Several people on this loop are super lucky to have caring and wonderful

spouses who support us emotionally, spiritually and physically on this odd

journey we have on Stilligan's Island. I happen to be one of the very

fortunate

ones. Just a quick note to tell you something very easy and romantic and

caring

to do for Valentine's Day that Al did for me one year.

He bought a box of children's Valentines - the kind where they're are 30 per

box. He addressed and wrote some wonderful little remark on each and every

one and hid them all over the apartment. The first one was in an obvious

place. I thanked him, like yippee - a kid's valentine's card. I asked,

" where are

the rest? " He explained that they are all over and I'd have to find them.

For

the following 3 years, I found valentines cards. One was during a fight, and

that totally ended the fight. I found them in the box of opposite season's

shorts, in the bottom towel in a pile of towels, under a throw rug.

Everywhere. And each time, it warmed my heart.

It was cheap, wonderful and the most loving thing a man ever did for me. I

remember hearing him on the phone the next day tell a buddy of his on the

phone who had bought his wife a real diamond tennis bracelet, " all I spent

was

$1.99 and I got lucky! "

Carole from Hollywood FL

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[Guest guest]

Great messages from everyone. I ahve alwasy done the small things for valentines

day for my wife, the flowers, poems and things, bu this year i want to go

alittle bigger. i want to rent a limo and take her out for a night of dinner

theatre at a place we have here in winnipeg. With 4 kids we don't have a lot of

us time, and for one night I want to make her feel like a princess, get all

dressed up and have her served instead of being the servers. I got to work a

little extra to make this happen on the money side of things. But i know in my

heart she deserves so much more than I am ever capable of giving her.

Mike...

Joan UK wrote:

Hi Carole

What a lovely valentine surprise. I agree with you the small lovely things

done just when you need them is the best. I remember (years ago) I had just

had my first baby and we decided to buy a freezer to cope with extra baby

food etc. Well typically me I decided to make loads of cottage pies but I

did huge amounts I think I could have supplied Sainsburys anyway the time

went on and I hadn't even done half when baby woke up and by the time I had

sorted him out my husband was due home and apart from a kitchen full of

cottage pies no meal preparation done by this time I was very tearful and in

a state. Then I heard my husband's key in the door . Anyway he put his

briefcase down, put all the foil containers along the worktop and said right

you put the meat inand I will put the potato on the top we will have this

production line going in no time but the best bit was when the last pie

arrived he had drawn " I Love You " on the potato and that meant more to me

than all the diamonds in the world. We are very lucky aren't we.

Have a good day

Best wishes

Joan U.K.

_____

From: Stillsdisease [mailto:Stillsdisease ]

On Behalf Of worcspubl@...

Sent: 10 January 2008 23:28

To: stillsdisease

Subject: how to let our spouses KNOW for Valentine's Day

Hi Everyone,

Several people on this loop are super lucky to have caring and wonderful

spouses who support us emotionally, spiritually and physically on this odd

journey we have on Stilligan's Island. I happen to be one of the very

fortunate

ones. Just a quick note to tell you something very easy and romantic and

caring

to do for Valentine's Day that Al did for me one year.

He bought a box of children's Valentines - the kind where they're are 30 per

box. He addressed and wrote some wonderful little remark on each and every

one and hid them all over the apartment. The first one was in an obvious

place. I thanked him, like yippee - a kid's valentine's card. I asked,

" where are

the rest? " He explained that they are all over and I'd have to find them.

For

the following 3 years, I found valentines cards. One was during a fight, and

that totally ended the fight. I found them in the box of opposite season's

shorts, in the bottom towel in a pile of towels, under a throw rug.

Everywhere. And each time, it warmed my heart.

It was cheap, wonderful and the most loving thing a man ever did for me. I

remember hearing him on the phone the next day tell a buddy of his on the

phone who had bought his wife a real diamond tennis bracelet, " all I spent

was

$1.99 and I got lucky! "

Carole from Hollywood FL

**************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape.

http://body.

<http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489>

aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489