Valentines

Today I got chemo... surprisingly i'm not feeling as bad as I usually do so I thought id post about Valentines day.

I know there are people out there that think Valentines day is a commercial holiday that forces you to spend money but i just want to tell those people to just focus on the good. Is it really so bad that theres a day in our year that people are reminded to appreciate the loved ones in their lives? Granted you should always appreciate them but what's so wrong with a day that its mandatory haha.

anyway last year on Valentines I was in the hospital with e coli. I ended up begging the nurses to let me go home with a portable antibiotic pump so that i could be with my wife at home and it worked...but in the middle of the night I got a ridiculous nose bleed that wouldn't stop so we ended up back in the hospital anyway...the nurses figured something might go wrong so they kept my bed.

Im relieved that this year was different. NO cancer to ruin the day. My wife has this funny quirk where she gets too impatient to wait for the actual day and ends up doing what she had planned at midnight.. so on the 13th of Feb I wasn't allowed in the kitchen at all while she prepared everything. Every now and then she'd come out with flour on her face and her hair a giant mess....i loved it.

what I had planned for valentines isn't going to arrive for another 2 weeks....and although my wife sort of caught me in the act of trying to buy it (she knows what it is now haha....i was kind of relieved because shes very unique in the things that she likes so I was happy to find out that she loved it) im not going to say what it is until it arrives.

anyway at a little before midnight my wife forced me out of the

living room and when she called me back this is what was waiting for me:

She had spent the whole day baking a mini 5 layer lemon ( my favorite flavor) cake:

She made chocolate covered strawberries:

And biscuits ( I was obsessing about them for days) and 3 different types of butter. Honey/cinnamon, raspberry, and lemon.

Needless to say it was AWESOME! And after giving her a kiss and stuffing my face with a biscuit I grabbed my wife and we danced to some Frank from the valentines day playlist I made her (cheesy i know but she loves cheese)

No matter what we've been through and how life is at the time...I will always be grateful that I married my best friend. To this day I still would rather spend my time with her...alone... eating cake.