Love Yourself, Celebrate Your Love, Who/What Are you Lovin’
Happy Valentine’s Day, kittens & dawgs!
What exciting stuff do you have planned? I made some heart-shaped chocolate petit fours for DH and if you dropped by last week then you saw the special V-Day card I made for him, as well as our kiddos. I didn’t forget you. I doodled this ribbon heart design with friends in a rainbow of colors (actually it is the colors of a rainbow) especially for all of you to show how special you are to me.
Today, I thought it would be fun to revisit two older posts I wrote in my early years of blogging. Valentine’s Day is the “love holiday”, but you know what to truly love someone else, you must love yourself first. I encourage you to read 7 Ways to Love Yourself. Valentine’s Day celebrates a couple’s intimacy but shouldn’t we celebrate this all year? Check out 12 Way to Celebrate Your Love!
Les from Ink Interrupted hosts the weekly meme, Tuesday Coffee Chat and her coffee chat topic this morning is on cue for this special occasion. The prompt is LOVE. What or Who are you lovin’ lately?
It’s hard to imagine loving DH any more than I do but I find that I grow more and more in love with him each day of every year. I’m not sure how that’s possible and yet it is. We are more than husband and wife, we are best friends! There is nothing he or I would rather do than to do it with each other. I help him change the oil in the car and he helps me fold the laundry, We like getting up early to take long day trips to the mountains, photograph scenic views or beautiful sunsets, I fix his boo-boos and he fixes mine, we are junk food junkies who love ice cream, chocolate, and donuts, we like to cuddle in the living room watching romantic comedies, action flicks, or edge of your seat thrillers, he shares interesting articles, headlines, and how-tos while I enlighten him with my photo-art, doodles, blogging interests, or delicious recipes.
We’re different in many ways and so alike in others. He’s quick-witted – I’m slow on the take. He’s intelligent – I’m trying to catch up. He’s logical – I’m emotional (that’s not always a bad thing). He’s reserved – I’m an open book. He loves cookies – I love to bake cookies. He’s coördinated – I’m a klutz. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a purrtty amazing person *giggle* but it’s not my place to speak of these things. Instead, I’ll leave that to DH who’s always quick to share with others my favorable attributes. He’s just sweet like that. ?
Within our core, we share identical viewpoints – politically, spiritually, and ethically. He gives freely and cares deeply, placing me above himself all the time. It an honor to call myself his wife. The old saying Love is blind is true because love hides the small stuff not worthy of attention that otherwise could rear its head to cause problems and that’s the way love should work. We all have impurrfections and it’s nice when love is bigger than our flaws. Thank you, DH, for being my Valentine and the greatest LOVE of my life! ?
That’s a wrap for this morning. I’m hopping over to Stacy’s for Random Tuesday Thoughts and you’re welcome to join me if you want. I hope you’ll hop & link up tomorrow for Wordless Wednesday.
Last week, I was inspired by Clean and Scentsible and having the ingredients on hand decided to make my own version of her fun Valentine’s Day treat.
This is NOT an affiliated link. I used the Ann Clark’s 3 ⅝” heart shaped cookie cutter.
Did you catch my earlier post, Barry White on Tuesday Tunesation? If not, I invite you to check it out! 😉 I hope you’ll join me at midnight and link up with my mid-week photo meme not-so Wordless Wednesday.
Have a sweetheart of a day!
19 Comments
Lisa
These are not only adorable, but they sound delicious! Thanks for sharing at Together on Tuesdays 🙂
Cathy Kennedy
You’re welcome and thanks for the return visit! 😉
Rorybore
Awww the friendship Valentines is so pretty and you are lovely to think of all of us!! Thank you. I love how you described your DH and your relationship — that’s the way it should be and I hope that my own can grow the same. We were sitting at our Valentines breakfast together and realized that we have been together 17 years!!! Where did that go? I cannot believe it — someone put me asleep for several of those and woke me up and I was old!! LOL
I guess it’s true that time flies when you are having fun.
I gotta show that recipe to my mom – she will love that.
Cathy Kennedy
Les, friends are very special Valentines. I remember when I was in elementary school, we would make Valentines Box (shoebox decorated with a slit in the top) for receiving all the Valentines from classmates on the 14th. The class had a contest on the purrttiest Valentine’s Day box. It was a lot of sweet fun. My BF got Valentine’s from all the boys. She was the purrtiest girl in the class but she wasn’t uppity about it. I secretly envied her but I didn’t have a jealous bone in me. I loved her, my best friend with the biggest, generous heart! On my wedding day, she was my maid of honor. We still keep in touch through Facebook and we may not be the same girls we were then, I know if I ever needed her for anything, she’d be there for me. 🙂 Hmmm, how did the conversation go from DH to friends? Oh yeah, the friendship Valentines. lol Sharing 17 years with Left Brain is wonderful and the years DO vanish, but let me say one thing (maybe two) DON’T EVER USE THE WORD OLD AGAIN. lol We mature now NEVER old. Got it? Good! 🙂 Age is a relative thing even when the mirror tells a different tale but I’m a firm believer if you feel young at heart it shows on your face, in your move, the way act, it influences every aspect of your life. 🙂
jMo
That’s a sweet little tube run, is that snow or sand? Nice job adding the snowfall effect.
Cathy Kennedy
JMo, that’s a snow tube run and although it was cold in Maggie Vally, NC where we came upon it there wasn’t any snow other than on that hill. I can’t recall now if it had snowed that week but I think they make their own snow. It looked like lots of fun, though.
McGuffy Ann
Oh, this was sweet! You can draw! I am impressed! I doodle in my journal, where no one can laugh at me. *wink*
I am glad we are friends. You are special. Hugs.
Cathy Kennedy
Annie, you’re way too kind. I’m enjoying getting back to doodling. While raising the family I push aside so many things because time was tight and there was an enormous about of stress in our lives with DH job, finances, managing the home, etc that I couldn’t enjoy such simple pleasures. Now, I am able to stop to smell the roses so-to-speak. I wish I could’ve found a way to do this years ago but that’s life for you.
Joanne Rawson
Those pies look quite yummy! Thanks for sharing and linking up with us at Together on Tuesdays.
Cathy Kennedy
Thank you for the return visit, Joanne!
Diana Armitage
Hi Cathy. Thanks for stopping by my blog. I enjoyed reading your post. Such love. Happy Valentine’s Day!
Cathy Kennedy
Diana, I appreciate your return visit and I hope you’ll come again! 😉
Stacy Uncorked (@RandomCoolChick)
Happy Valentine’s Day, Cathy! Thank you for the sweet card! I absolutely LOVED how you described your hubby and your relationship – you guys sound so much like us it’s crazy! I bet if we ever have a chance to meet in person some day, we’d all get along famously! 🙂
Cathy Kennedy
Stacy, happy belated Valentine’s Day to you, Sweetie! It’s good to hear you and your husband share the same kind of relationship as we do. I’m sure we’d get along purrfectly, too. Who knows maybe we’ll have the gooo fortune to meet someday. 🙂
Claudia Willison| ImagesByCW
Your love for DH pours from every word in your blog post – very sweet and beautiful. I hope you’re having a lovely Valentine’s Day.
You mentioned in a comment always having difficulties finding the latest blogpost on my site. Well, I am sticking to the idea of showing you several posts on my journal page instead of the latest post only. But the posts are in order and the latest one will always be on the top left. Hope this will work for you 🙂
Cathy Kennedy
Claudia, thank you for your sweet thoughts. Also appreciated you telling how your site is laid out now. Although I love the flashy photos of various posts you’ve shared and I have clicked on those that catch my fancy, but I couldn’t figure out how to get to particular posts like the most recent ones. lol I’m slow, I know. 😀 Thanks for being such a sweetheart to tell me. Have a fototastic day, dearie!
Thomas Anderson
Hi, Cathy!
Thank you for the friendship Valentine! It is beautiful and a sweet gesture on your part. I went back and read your two 2012 posts filled with tips on how to love yourself and how to celebrate love. They are all useful guidelines. I think it is very important to give your significant other a little hug first thing every morning and, in a soft and sincere tone of voice, tell them that you love them and let them know how much they mean to you. That simple gesture, which takes only a couple of seconds, can set a positive tone for the entire day. Another good rule is to do the same thing at bedtime. Never go to bed angry or fighting with your spouse. I agree that taking good care of yourself needs to be job one. That includes physically, mentally and spiritually. You cannot be of service to others if you are sick and tired all the time. When you are at the top of your game you inspire others and lift them up along with you.
I could tell by chatting with you and DH on the telephone that time that you are good people, a lovely couple, that you are lucky to have found each other and meant to be together. While it might be true that opposites attract, the fact remains that people who share common interests and basic values are the ones who will stay together for the duration.
I enjoyed the Bradley Joseph piano melody and will be sure to show Mrs. Shady your recipe for heart shaped raspberry pies.
Happy Valentine’s Day to you and your hubby, dear friend Cathy!
Cathy Kennedy
Tom, Love comes in various forms and levels, like the love of friendship. I can’t begin to tell you, and I know you feel the same, what a joy the friendships mean to me in Blogosphere. People I never would’ve met had it not been for this social platform. Being true to oneself does mean one can then give the best of themselves to others. DH & I are opposite personality wise. I’m not sure how much of that came through in our phone conversation but the difference was larger at the start of our courtship. Over the years, we’ve rubbed off on the other. For example, he’s less shy and I’m more reserved. I believe if you’re in a good relationship then you can’t help but to bring the best out in one another, don’t you agree? You’re right to point out those small tender gestures at the start of each day is a warm welcome to the morning and makes you feel important to your significant other. I always wake DH by telling him good morning with a little hug and kiss. We exchange kisses and hugs at least a couple of times before he leaves for work, then when he gets home I try to greet him with lots of sunshine. Going to bed mad is horrible and it’s best to resolve hot issues without letting it drag into the next day or longer. It takes bold courage to push aside your feelings to say I’m sorry first, even if it’s not your fault. This simple phrase because a wrecking ball to tear down the wall between two people and allows mending to begin. Thank you for being a good friend. All my love to you and Mrs. Shady for a beautiful day!
messymimi
What a lovely tribute to your husband! It’s such a blessing to see a marriage that truly works the way it should.