February 15, 2009

• You Can’t Be My Valentine

  Because I’ve already got the best one there is! And, I shall attempt a non-mathematical proof.
  
  Postulate 1: Friday night, TGD spoke at the Youth Group meeting on the topic of “Zealous for Good Deeds.”  When he got to the application section of how to practically apply this verse, his Power Point read, “Give your extremely attractive wife two dozen roses.” He went into a back room and came out with two dozen, long-stemmed, red roses and gave them to me to the “Awww!”s of the group.
  
  Postulate 2:  Saturday, I got to sleep in. Then, Wit and I went out to Pizza Hut and shopping all afternoon.  Although this might not seem like a Valentine’s treat, per se, I got to have a lot of fun all day.
  
  Postulate 3:  TGD said we could go out anywhere I wanted for supper, even though we knew it would be insanely busy wherever we went.  We called ahead for seating at Texas Roadhouse, but somehow, they didn’t write down my reservation. So, I had to get another reservation number and a much longer wait. We left for a while, and when I called back to check on our wait time, I was told that my new reservation number didn’t exist!  I got on the phone with someone more in charge, and he said to me, “Are you here in the restaurant?” 
  “No, but I can be in three minutes.” 
  “Great, come in, and we’ll give you a table right now.”
  And he did.
  And through all the hassle and empty stomach, instead of complaining, TGD took me shopping.
  
  Postulate 4:  After going to several stores, we made a purchase–a 32″ flat screen TV!  Wheee! Considering the TV it is replacing is a 12″ from TGD’s early college days, I’m pretty excited.   Roses, dinner, and a TV–Ah!
  
  Postulate 5:  Seeing as we got the TV at Best Buy, it seemed only right to cap off our Valentine’s celebration by watching two episodes of Chuck.  And that’s all the more you need to know.
  
  Postulate 6: The sermon in church today was on Hebrews 13:4, “Let marriage be held in honor by all…” Our pastor spoke about a couple who had been married 69 years and still “looked at each other like love-sick teenagers.” He went on to challenge us by saying, “Remember when we were love-sick teenagers?  Remember when we would call for no reason at all? When we would just spend all evening talking and enjoying one another?” He went on to list many other examples of lovesickness, and through it all, my boys rolled their eyes.  He was describing in detail how their dad behaves toward me!
  
  And a funny story from today–My kids are used to TGD and his romantic silliness. LibbyK had a friend over after church today who wasn’t.  After we prayed for lunch TGD referred to me and said, “with her new nickname, ‘Esposa caliente’.”  There was a pause, and LibbyK’s friend tentatively said, “Hot wife?” and burst out laughing.  We do have fun.

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