Last Year's Valetines Day and This Years...

Last year Mark took me on an overnight stay at  Terranea.  An oceanfront resort in Palos Verdes.  it was absolutely beautiful and most definitely a romantic night.  We got to our room to see truffles and a bottle of champagne.  We then went to dinner and drinks and came back to the room to a drawn bath with rose pedals leading up to the tub and in it.  It was BY FAR, the most romantic and nicest thing anyone has ever done for me.  Some girls claim that they don't need to be wined and dined to feel good and I think I fall under that category, but I could sure get used to that.  It was exciting, sweet, and did I mention romantic?

Sunrise view from our room

This year...  hhuuuummm, how two babies really mix things up.... I didn't even think about Valentine's Day.  No thought went into today, nor did I want anything out of it.  Mark came home with a single rose and a sweet card from him and the boys and we ate chocolate chip pancakes for dinner.  Besides being sleep deprived, it's all I need.  My family here with me.  Mark and I have been so overwhelmed with babies and him with work and trying to do EVERYTHING I ask of him (or demand, whichever way you wish to look at it) that stopping to pick up a rose let's me know he will never forget about me.  I got Mark nothing.  I somewhat feel like a schmuck although he will say he doesn't need anything and he loves that I'm the mother of his boys.  (By far the greatest compliment in the world.)

A perfect example of how life can change very quickly.  I wouldn't change a thing and I know one day in the future Mark and I will take many more romantic trips...for now, we're enjoying us a family.  I love them.  I love Mark as a future husband, a dad, and a man.  He is, my valentine.

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