Valentine Stories

Yes, the weather doesn't sound too good for tomorrow. Please post pics of new puppies! Harper - So you're the one whose unsecured!! I'll get a bungee cord cause I don't want you to be too secured - like you the way you are!! LOL Eleanor
p.s. - I think I'm unsecured too!!

A bungee cord? Okay, then if I fly away, I'll come back.

That's right!! Don't want you to fly too far!! Maybe you should be tethered!! (Is that spelled right?) Then you can't fly away - just spread your wings a little!! LOL Eleanor

This is starting to sound fun. Can I jump off a bridge? I always wanted to go bungee jumping.

Not with me watching!!!!! Eleanor

Those people who do that are crazy!

I went hang gliding once.

I'm unsecure about heights, even when someone else is the one up high!! Eleanor

I'm tired. I need to go to bed! Have a good night everyone and hope you don't get snowed in!! Eleanor

I tired and my tooth hurts from getting a temporary crown. Then Wallingford ran out the door when I came home from work and I can't find him. So I can't go to sleep until he is safe in the house. It is much too cold for him to be outside. He has never, ever done this before! Drat. (grumbling under breath)

He is in and I am off to bed.

OH NO! So sorry to hear that, YankeeCat! Pls post an update upon King W's return. I won't be able to sleep now, either!

Oh, goodie. lol

NightyNight!

Wow, I'm a little late posting to this one (maybe that's a good thing), but here's my story...
My hubby and I used to attend the same church since I was 9 years old and he was 12. We went to youth group together and I was friends with his sisters and doing the sleepover and party things with them. He was just their older brother. We became really good friends when I was in high school, we both dated other people. I started getting stronger feelings for him when I was 17 and didn't know if I should let him know then one night driving me home from church he asked me out. I was shocked because I didn't know he felt the same way and I must have had such a look on my face because he goes.."oh never mind just forget I said anything" I was like no, no I'd love to go out with you. And the rest they say is history, we'll be married this year 19 years. Totally unromantic proposal though so I won't even get into that.
fyi.....Not started by a woman.....
The first recorded association of Valentine's Day with romantic love is in Parlement of Foules (1382) by Geoffrey Chaucer
For this was on seynt Volantynys day
Whan euery bryd comyth there to chese [choose] his make [mate].

The birds are coming to make cheese! Yay! ...no, wait a minute.

Just kidding. That was a nice piece of history Jen. Thanks. I loved your story too. Reminds me of my very first boyfriend.

oh, I did forget to say I love everyone elses romantic and sweet stories.
Amy, you had me on the edge of my seat with your story.

Nice story Jen.

Yes - nice story Jen. You guys are a year ahead of us.

We were married young. Since we knew each other, since forever, it sometimes feel even longer.

What does longer than forever feel like??

like an eternity

I was thinking Motor Vehicles Dept.

lol ... yours was way more better than mine

DMV, ha that's funny!!!

Jen - loved your story! I agree when you enter through the doors of the DMV you are entering forever. I have a funny story about the DMV or at least my two kids think it was funny. I had taken my car for service and when I picked it up the front liscense plate was missing. I was taking the girls to Syracuse the next day to visit family and I needed to get it replaced. I went right up to the DMV, took off my old liscense plate on the back and went inside. I left the kids in the car - physically old enough but obviously not mature enough. Sigh - the lines were long, I filled out the proper papers and got in line for at least 45 minutes. I could see my car out the window and did my kids behave - NO!! Finally I got to the front of the line and the clerk took my liscense plate and then told me I had to go to another clerk to finish up the process. I turned around and the line for that clerk was out the door. I had no choice - I didn't have a liscense plate on my car any more so I couldn't leave, if I went out to the car to kill the kids I would be further than ever from the front of the line. Sooooo, I got in line and watched my kids. What did they do to fill their boring wait in the car: get out and run around the car, climb out the car windows, climb up the hood and up on the roof of the car, climb out the windows and onto the roof !! Good thing I had the car keys or they would have driven away. I had to stand in line at the DMV for a total of 1 1/2 hours and watch my kids try to kill themselves. I could see everything and was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. I was in tears and said when i finally got to the front, am I finished now, my kids have been out in the car for 1 1/2 hours misbehaving and I have been stuck in line!! When the kids saw me coming out the door they quickly got back in their seatbelts and pretended to be little angels. But, they got it!!!!!!! I must have hollered at them the whole way home and appologizing at the same time and vented on the #@^&* procedures at the DMV!!!!! I'm glad most everything can now be done in the mail!! Eleanor

Oh, that is too funny. If you could have trusted the guy behind you to save your spot while you went to kill your kids that would have been nice.

lol oh Eleanor! That reminds me of when I was a kid back when our parents always had the kids stay in car even at five years old. They always said "I'll be right back now behave while I'm gone." We would see them coming and would be sitting up as straight as an arrow. Our hair plastered to our head, sweat running down our faces and clothes rumpled. And we'd be amazed how they would know we didn't do what they asked!!

Sue - we always stayed in the car when we were little also. We didn't dare get to far out of line though. We were too scared to misbehave!! My kids, on the other hand, weren't scared of much of anything. They must have been at least 10 and 13 at the time of this incident. Most likely the older one got the younger one to try the gymnastics first!! Eleanor

My mother didn't drive and my father was blind, so we didn't have a car! We got to walk everywhere, lol! My poor mom - I can only imagine that walking with kids who didn't want to do errands was even worse than driving with them! Although, she put fear into the hearts of everyone, so we were usually pretty darn good!

ok ok, enough of this, I only JUST saw this thread and thought i might post our romantic story. Back in the olden days (shortly after Al Gore invented the Internet, I believe), I had just escaped a marriage like pixie's 1st one and NEVER wanted to get married again.

(DH had meanwhile been married for 20 years to a psychotic - I don't know why he didn't get divorced sooner, for the sake of the kids or he had no hard evidence or something like that. So he finally was confronted with irrefutable proof of her infidelity so he got out, but he, too, never wanted to get married again.)

So this was when match.com was just starting, and they offered one weejk free trials. It just so happened that DH and I both had our one week free trials in the same week! He still thinks I'm too young, or he's too old, although I'm ten years older than when we met! Back in those days, it wasn't as much of a meat market, no photos, just words. I like getting to know people, like you guys for instance, through words. It's hard for people, men, to look past the wheelchair and see someone they might consider dating.

Anyway, we e-mailed frantically night and day, anonymously until our week was up then to our real email addresses, then finally after about 6 weeks we phoned each other and then after another few weeks we met in person. I will never forget that night. We talked for hours and hours. Finally he left, but before he left, he said "may I kiss you?" Man oh man, after years, a lifetime of come-ons and groping and pick-ups and turn-offs and turn-downs and mixed messages, just so simple and sweet "may I kiss you?" I said yes.

He really wanted to get married right away, although he was still legally married to the witch, as we fondly call her, and although I was happy just being BF and GF. But about a year and a half, or maybe two and a half after our first fateful meeting in my driveway, we got married. Every night before we go to sleep, I say "you are the darling of my heart" and he says "you are the one great love of my life."

xx, Carrie

What a great story!
i'm glad you shared it...

Oh Carrie, how romantic those good-night greetings are. Reminds me of what my mom said to me the other night: (we recently lost our dad) "Never pass up a chance to say 'I love you.'"

What a sweet story Carrie. I loved it.

Loved your story Carrie! Eleanor

Carrie, that was so sweet, what a great story.

Well, there is a little post script...

DD#2 was born on Valentine's Day. (St. Valentine was a monk or priest who, defying Roman authorities, continued marrying couples who wanted to get married. It did have something to do with married men (or teenagers) were exempt from mandatory military service and the Romans needed all the bachelors they could get for soldiers, but anyway...)

DD#2 was born on Valentine's Day. (4 years before DH and I even met.) So he was at her 4th birthday party, which happened about two months after the first fateful meeting. We had discussed marriage already (!) although, of course, he was still not yet able to get married again. How could we be "engaged"? At this birthday party, there was a bowl of conversation hearts, and DH was looking through them, finally found one he liked, gave it to DD and whispered to her that she should give it to me... So she brought it over. It was the only one I had ever seen that said MARRY ME on it. I couldn't find one that said IS THIS A JOKE OR ARE YOU SERIOUS, HOW CAN WE BE ENGAGED WHEN YOU'RE NOT EVEN DIVORCED? so I went over and asked him and he said he wanted to be unofficially engaged and when could we go pick out a ring?

My philosophy is that even though I've been through some really rotten things in my life, and I'm sure there are more to come, as long as I have my Prince Charming, even as long as I had the privilege of being Ms. Lamont-Charming for a while, it is Kismet, Fate, luck, whatever, it will have been worth it. I imagine me with the big computer game of life. You can have a boring life with boring kids and a boring husband OR you can marry a prick because you have MS and the neurologist says it's your last chance to have children but wait, there's more after you get rid of him, you meet this fantastic guy who needs you desperately and thinks you're a goddess and treats you like one, who would spend his last dime on buying you flowers except he has practically no dimes, but who is faithful and loyal and devoted to only you; which would you rather have? I'd choose the exciting crazy life, well, I hope I would, because I'm in it and he's the prize and it's easier if I pretend I wanted it to turn out this way.

I used to constantly ask my mother "If you had known you and Daddy were going to get divorced, would you have still .... married him? ... had me? ....had us? etc. And she would always say without flinching "of course! how else would I have had you?"

x, Carrie