"He loves me; he loves me not" . . . not necessary!

I'm not sure that I've put my foot in my mouth any time in my life quite as far as I did this week. Or, maybe it just didn't leave behind a taste quite this sour previously. Either way, I'm not sure that I deserve my Valentine this year. Yesterday, a package arrived on my doorstep just prior to lunch time. As I was opening this tall rectangular box, I received a beautiful, floral whiff of a terrible reality. The flashback that ensued went something like this:

I envisioned myself walking up behind Brett sitting at the computer in his home office a few days before and noticing an add on the sidebar of a news page he was reading. I said something like, "35 roses! Who needs 35 roses! That just seems so frivolous and like such a waste of money!" I didn't really take too much notice at the time, but realized now that he didn't really respond.

You can imagine the happy tears that burned in my eyes and the pit that formed in my stomach as I finished opening my delivered box to reveal 3 dozen red roses in a vase with a heartfelt Valentine message (that he had ordered more than three weeks before).

I learned something about myself yesterday that he already knew -- receiving flowers makes me feel really loved and pampered!! I had no idea! I always forced him to be too frugal and buy me pants or something instead. To think that he loves me enough and thinks me important enough to "waste" that much cash to express it. I'm so grateful for my Valentine. . . and happy to report that he is very forgiving. I won't be pulling apart these flowers for a game of "he loves me; he loves me not." It is pretty obvious that he loves me.

The Blurb Slurper is Back!!

I'm supposed to be helping compile information for our taxes, so hopefully I don't get caught in the blog world, but I was just so excited by the news that I just got that I had to share it. The newest version of BookSmart, available on Blurb.com, has a slurping utility for Blogspot intact!! Hooray!! This means that I can easily upload all of the photos and text from our family blog into the book making software and have a great family journal ready to print in no time! I had dreams of having such a book completed in January, but, when the slurping utility was nixed near the end of last year, it became too much work and I became a procrastinator. There is no excuse now! Yeah!