Valentine's Day

Today is Valentine's Day. Regardless of the fact that everyone realizes that VD is a ploy by retailers across the world to get men and women to spend lots of money on mylar balloons and chocolate shaped lips, I still like the day, as would any hopeless romantic. I really like to try to get things for Abbey that she is not expecting. Because I am not sure when she will read this post, I will have to give you a post-VD report. Abbey will probably still think that her best VD present was yesterday when she got a snow day off from school for no apparent reason. Attached to my computer monitor is poem that Abbey wrote for me some time ago and it has been in my office for the past 3 jobs that remind me of how much she loves me. But I think I would like to post it here to Abbey, because it echoes my feelings for her.

Is it possible to explain,

Or even comprehend-

That God would send

Someone like you

To someone like me.

Here's a renewal-

Of a promise we made,

4 years ago (edited for obvious reasons),

On that memorable day.

When someone like you,

Promised to love,

Someone like me.

Somedays it's tough

I don't know what to say,

Will I ever do enough?

To prove to you in everyway

How special I feel

To have someone like you

Love someone like me

Things get so busy, so fast

Many times you feel left out

Or that you come in last

Leaving you filled with doubt

It's a wonder that

Someone like you

Loves someone like me

Very few will ever be blessed

To have someone like you

Love someone like me

I'm so glad God gave me

Someone like you

To love someone like me.