Month: February 2019

Valentine’s Day

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I love Valentine’s Day:-)!! Before I found My Love, I loved Valentine’s Day!! I have always given or sent Valentine’s to friends and family. I love to do that. Over the years I have changed to giving out Valentine’s to mostly family, our God-Children, my parents, brother, sister, daughter and of course My Sweetheart. I also like to do something fun or different in my classroom on Valentine’s and it almost always involves chocolate! Today we did a lesson I named That’s S’ More! Like Amore! But S’More! Ha! I played the song by Dean Martin and sang it was funny, the number of eye rolls was hilarious! Anyway, I think Valentine’s is for everyone and I wish more people embraced the idea of using the day to just remind everyone in our sphere that we love them and value them.

My own love does Valentine’s well. He is amazing. He is a hopeless romantic and I am the happy recipient of all the sweet sweet wonderful things he has done over the years. It’s like a fairytale I live in on Valentine’s Day. I am not kidding. Today he sent me the song Storybook Love. He bought me flowers two days ago. He took me to lunch today and I know he has a fun and special evening planned for me and our daughter, who he also totally spoils. I could ask for anything from him on this day and he’d probably do it or get it if it was within reason. Not to mention all the sweet poems, love letters, stories he’s written for me over the years.

I am so incredibly blessed that God put Jason in my life. He makes me feel loved like no other person on Earth. I imagine the love I feel from my husband is close to the love God has for me. That totally amazes me because I can’t imagine being loved by anyone more than I am loved by Jason and yet I am.

I am definitely not bragging or trying to but one day if my daughter reads this blog I want her to know how incredibly awesome her Dad was/is and how grateful I felt and feel everyday for the gift that he is to us. God has been so good to me and I as I sit here,  typing this while waiting for my daughter to finish her piano lesson, I am overwhelmed by that Love.

Isn’t that what Valentine’s Day should be about? Knowing we are loved and whether that is the love we feel from a lover or a friend, parent, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, grandparent, it’s all really just a reflection of the one perfect love waiting to hold us all, if we open our hearts.

I encourage you to share Love today with the people around you, through you they might have just enough of a glimpse, a taste of God’s perfect love to want to to take the time to know Him.

Today for Valentine’s Day…I Give Thanks!

KOR

Here are the  flowers My Love bough. I told you, he does Valentine’s well!

SNOW!

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I live in a valley. The most beautiful valley in the state, if you ask me. Unfortunately, you can’t always tell that I live in a valley. My valley is about an hour away from the front gate of Yosemite National Park as well as an hour away from the front gate of Sequoia National Park, well, maybe I should say my town not my valley. In any event, the mountains are flush with snow right now and the air is clean and so the views when I drive over to my school are breathtakingly beautiful! I mean I could stare at the wonder of the mountains and the snow for hours. The foothills are green and the mountains are snow capped, its the valley of my youth. I was so very thankful to God today for my views, almost 360, amazing!

My valley feeds the world. It is a beautiful place to live, even in the summer when it’s hot. I love it in every season but my favorite is probably right now just before spring and fall, whenever that happens because sometimes it doesn’t happen until December. We live hours away from a spectacular coast line and like I wrote an hour away from beautiful foothills, lakes and world class National Parks.

I love running here. It’s spectacularly beautiful most days. I love my drives to work. I love driving past the open green fields and the orchards. Much of the land has been owned by family farmers, sometimes for generations. It’s getting harder for them though, which concerns me. My town is a relatively conservative leaning town in a crazy liberal state. I enjoy my town. I know people at my church and in my community. I feel like I belong. I care about the people here, the kids here. Some days I am so happy as I drive through my valley I think my heart will burst, like today.

Today….for the spectacularly beautiful mountains that are surrounding my valley, they remind me of God’s ever lasting and ever surrounding love…I Give Thanks!

KOR