This year Christian and I decided to go out on Valentine's Day Eve,
so we could be home to celebrate the actual
Valentine's Day with the Nies.
So we left the house around 3:00, relying on Oliver
to pick up Lottie and Gigs from school and make dinner!
(I am going to miss him sooooooooooooooo much when he leaves
next month on his mission, but let's not get into that just yet.)
Our romantic Valentine's Day date included:
A stop at Sodabox for a drink,
dinner, dessert (of course!),
filled the car with gas,
went to another gas station to buy gum,
drove around town and into the country,
talking and listening to all our love songs over the years.
Then, we finished our date by going to Lowes to get some
things to fix a terrible sewer leak at Stillestead.
It was a very romantic date!
When we went home, Oliver had the kitchen cleaned, the floors
swept, and Lottie was ready for bed.
Gigs were sound asleep on the couch because he was sick
and has been since last month! He's got a pretty
gnarly sinus infection that keeps on giving!
Christian put on his work overalls and headed to the basement
to try and fix the sewer leak while I put Lod to bed.
When he returned, he felt confident he had fixed the problem.
I sure hope so. Talk about a mood killer wafting through the vents.
Before bed, I played him our 2023 Valentine's Day song:
"The Story"
by Brandi Carlile
"All of these lines
(I took the liberty to replace lines with SCARS)
across my face
Tell you the story of who I am
So many stories of where I've been
And how I got to where I am
But these stories don't mean anything
When you've got no one to tell them to
It's true; I was made for you
I climbed across the mountain tops
Swam all across the ocean blue
I crossed all the lines and I broke all the rules
But baby, I broke them all for you
Oh, because even when I was flat broke
You made me feel like a million bucks
You do, and I was made for you
You see the smile that's on my mouth
It's hiding the words that don't come out
And all of my friends who think that I'm blessed
They don't know my head is a mess
No, they don't know who I really am
And they don't know what I've been through like you do
And I was made for you
All of these lines across my face
Tell you the story of who I am
So many stories of where I've been
And how I got to where I am
Oh, but these stories don't mean anything
When you've got no one to tell them to
It's true, I was made for you
Oh, yeah, well it's true that I was made for you"
I cried listening to the song with him,
even though we've heard this song together
a million times before.
I love him so much!!
(PS...I like the Dolly Parton version a lot, too!)
