I’m sitting here in my cozy house, which is built upon the exact spot my dearest bestest friend proposed to me three years ago today… It wasn’t snowing then, though. It was a beautiful day! We walked to Merritt’s property without even coats on, it was so warm. There wasn’t several feet of frozen snow on the ground, either. I don’t think Merritt’s knee even got wet when he knelt to propose (not that either of us would have noticed).
Three years and many special little “anniversaries” later, we’re celebrating Valentine’s Day today and every day. Mom watched Ruth last night, so it was just the two of us at our church Valentine banquet. And Marlys kicked me out of the kitchen as soon as my hot date arrived, so I got to sit holding my husband’s hand all evening… He was an amazing chef in a little skit they did. And of course, we were totally amazing in the “Not-So-Newlywed” game they played. The questions they asked us wives were way harder (I mean, come on, would I characterize him as acting like any particular animal on our first date? I don’t think so! I put “gentleman”). Merritt did perfectly on his answers, the only problem was he thought there were blue tints to my dress (which in the right light there are) and so he didn’t get the bonus 25-point question of “what is your wife wearing tonight?” or we’d have won. The other Gretchen and her husband won. They are newlyweds like us, they’ve just been married six years.
Anyway, the dinner turned out amazingly well, just please don’t ask me to plan a meal for 50 again anytime soon. We had lots of leftovers. But with hors’dourerves and salad and then a big main course, people don’t eat as much. We also had only two teenage boys, and they were servers! Marlys did a spectacular job managing her first-time “wait staff”, but I believe I did hear some references to the fact that she liked her conference center kitchen better and reminding herself this wasn’t the conference center… Not that anyone is specially attached to the conference center or the cook she met there…
We’re going to brave the snow and go to town to buy ourselves shoes on Valentine’s Day. Yes, that’s very romantic. The tennis shoes my boyfriend bought me four years ago are rather wearing out. And Keens are 20% off at our shoe store today. That was one of the questions last night…”what is the most your wife has ever spent on shoes?” There was another shoe question, “How many shoes does your wife own?” What do they think, that husbands don’t know these things? It’s been years since I’ve bought a pair of shoes without my fashion expert at my side. And since my shoes are lined up on his side of the bed, the man knows very close to how many I have.
Speaking of him, he’s home! Off to get some hugs and kisses!!!