My Funny Valentine.
February 15, 2010 | Filed Under Andrea, Daniel, Lovers, Photos, Valentine's Day | 13 Comments
My funny Valentine
Sweet comic Valentine
You make me smile with my heart
You’re my favorite work of art
Don’t change a hair for me
Not if you care for me
Each day is Valentine’s Day
How was your Valentine’s Day? Do anything special? We didn’t. But it was still sweet ’cause I’m with him.
P.S. Lyrics from the song, My Funny Valentine
Wedding Rings…
November 13, 2009 | Filed Under Lovers, Photos | 8 Comments
While chatting with Daniel yesterday we talked about “Ruby” the truck and how her exterior is in need of a good washing.
It’s on the list, I assured him. Not terribly high but definitely higher than before I noticed how blackened her once shiny rims had become.
He was a bit disappointed that I had let her get dirty but how is a girl to do everything? I just can’t. I’ve tried. And failed. He understood… And the disappointed in his voice lifted a bit when I promised him that the inside is clean… very clean, due to our “no eating in the truck” rule. And possibly because of my obsessive issue with toys and garbage not filling my truck. Oh, and the equally obsessive vacuuming issue I have.
I have many issues, I know this.
This morning when my ears heard the gentle clang of my wedding bands as I out of habit straightened them, I looked down. I noticed that they weren’t sparkling; they were filmed over from lotion and life.
If the truck was on the list to be cleaned didn’t my best gift from Daniel, my rings deserve to be also?
I tugged the bands off my finger and trudged to the bathroom; leaning over the sink I squeezed some toothpaste on an old toothbrush and scrubbed. I scrubbed til they shone. I rinsed and rinsed; as I did the memories of my marriage to Daniel flitted across my mind’s eye like old film. Daniel desperately working to get my ring onto my finger on our wedding day… the times we’ve placed our rings on each others fingers promising our vows anew… seeing his ring resting on the window sill patiently waiting for him to come home from work and slip it on his finger… seeing his ring on one of our babies newly born finger, laughing at how large it looked… feeling his lips kiss the wedding rings on my finger, rubbing love into the simple gold…
Today I am thankful anew for those memories, for the vows, for the work, the life that our wedding rings represent.
Sometimes I reach out my hand.
October 21, 2009 | Filed Under Deployment, Lovers, Photos, Uncategorized | 29 Comments
I sleep on the same sheets we’ve slept on for years now. The same sheets we slept on before you left last time. The same sheets I slept on alone, before. And now, alone, again.
They started out as creamy flannel. And now they are silk, softened with use. Pregnant with memories.
Sometimes I slowly reach out my hand even though I know my fingers won’t collide with your body. I do it because I like to remember that they have. And one day they will again.
Sometimes I curl my body into a half moon and wish to once again feel your strong arm glide over and wrap itself around my middle and pull me into you. And if you did, I would lay there nestled in the place that was made only for me.
Our slow quiet breaths sometimes mismatch, sometimes harmonize. But together we would breathe in this abiding love.
I miss feeling you lay next to me. I miss your warm breath on my hair. I miss laying with you, as close as we possibly could be but always wishing it would be closer. I miss falling asleep, our legs and fingers and hearts tangled.
Come home, my love. Our sheets miss you.
Me and you…
August 20, 2009 | Filed Under Andrea, Daniel, Love songs, Lovers, Photos | 28 Comments
Sometimes songs express what I am feeling the best…
Right now I’m loving the old rock ballads. They seem to get me on just the right level.
Especially “Please Forgive Me” by Bryan Adams. His was the voice of my teenage years. Anyone else’s?
I use Rhapsody to listen to music on my computer (love it!) which makes listening to a wiiiiiide range of music easy as pie.
Tonight though, it’s Kenny Chesney’s “Me and You.”
(Suggestion: listen to the song but don’t watch the video… unless you are fully prepared to be overwhelmed by it’s cheesetasticness. Wowza.)
“The song” changes daily… What can I say? I love having choices! And there are so many good songs out there.
What is your song of the day… or the week… or your life? I really want to know! Plus, I need to add more music to my playlist…
Andrea got a letter…
July 14, 2009 | Filed Under Deployment, Deployment Blog, Lovers, Photos | 12 Comments
Can’t help but sing:
Andrea got a letter
Andrea got a letter
Andrea got a letter
Wonder who it’s from!
In my head, of course. Thanks a lot, Steve from Blue’s Clues…
And I know who it’s from because nobody else in the whole world calls me “A.” Just the one who writes me love letters.
I had a hard week, last week and I didn’t want to bore you with my angst, hence the lack of posts. If you are like me and are of the curious sort, you can peek into the angst over at my deployment blog “Dear Me.”
Thankfully this week will be better. I just know it. I have some fun (at least to me!) posts that I am working on; photos of Daniel in Iraq, a recipe post, and some fun photos of our letter “B” week.
And just because I want you to know, I really appreciate having you around. You never fail to make me smile and generally make my life a happier place. Wish I could make a huge plate of cookies and sit and eat them with you!
What a great idea…!
June 27, 2009 | Filed Under Daniel, Love songs, Lovers, Photos | 7 Comments
Pioneer Woman posted a photo of her husband today. It was a photo portraying how her husband truly looks to her.
Sigh.
I had already been in a wistfully romantic mood anyways this evening… it all started with listening to our wedding song a few times while out running an errand. There is something about this song that moves me way down deep.
So, when I read Ree’s post and saw her photo, I knew just what photo I would use to describe how Daniel looks to me.
His love for me is the emotion in his eyes. He loves me completely and there could never be anyone else for me.
This photo, coupled with the gorgeous gravely voiced of Marc Cohn singing True Companion, coupled with the thousands and thousands of miles currently between Daniel and I, makes me wistfully lost in the memory of dancing on our wedding night, under the stars as this song swirled around us.
I need him. I want him. I will wait for him.
(This is our current song: Faithfully by Journey. Just need to change the words “music man” to “military man” and you have us.) (Steve Perry is my absolute favorite artist and I will never ever change my mind.) (Have you ever heard him sing When you love a woman?)(Sigh. I really miss my husband.)
