Valentine's Day Rap

So, picture this.

It's Valentine's day.
My stomach is still churning from my previous 2 day ago stomach flu.
My hubby has spent most of the last night up pooping...or puking.

I have tried to make the evening as special as I can for my kiddos....the ones that can digest food.

My husband stumbles out to the dinner table, in his robe, and says he has a gift for me.

"Just as long as I can keep 2 feet between us" slipped out before I could think about it.
Blame it on dehydration, lack of sleep, whatever.

Then he proceeds to perform this rap (hunched over, with stomach cramps, sweating as his fever is breaking, in dirty, stinky clothing).
 It was sooooo romantic.


I married you once and 100 times over
cause the way you make me feel, 
I'm like a dog named Rover (woof)

Nutty, crazy, my mind's a bit hazy,
as I dream about you while I'm sitting in my lazy....

...Boy, you're not a toy,
Like Aretha you need respect,
and against all perpetrators 
its you I will protect.

Cause we're in a covenant,
I love it,
I want some more of it.
Don't refrain your love for me,
Cause I might throw a fit.

Cause you're my valentine...
You're my valentine...
You're my valentine.

It's you whom I married
and whose hand I promise to hold.
Through fire and wind
I'll be with you till we're old.

Yes we made babies,
we're crazy, but 
those suckas don't faze me.
Cause you and me shoulder to shoulder 
we can face an army.

So let's date,
We'll roller skate,
I promise not to be late. 
We'll live in bliss
I'll give you a kiss.
It's all love and not hate.

Cause we're in a covenant.
I love it.
I want some more of it.
Don't refrain your love for me
Or I'm gonna throw a fit.

Cause your my valentine,
My Valentine,
My valentine.


Besides the fact that I thought he was going to drop to the floor due to exhaustion from the flu, it was pretty darn sweet.  And funny.

Happy Vday from my hubs....but I'll take on a rain check on the hugging and kissing...m'kay?  

Lucky Us...

.....cause we get to have the stomach flu twice.
In less then 2 months.

Don't be jealous....

Day of Love

Our home has been invaded once again by the stomach flu, so it's not a super-duper romantic type of holiday here.  The kids have (so far) avoided it, but Rich and I were hit again...unfortunately.

But today I am thinking about marriage.
I'm thinking about love, and the people in my life who have set a darn good example of what love and marriage is.

That it's not just a feeling...but a commitment to action.
That it's not easy...and sometimes really, really hard.
That it's a journey..one that sometimes doesn't end with roses and butterflies.

My heart is full when I think of these outstanding examples of love.  I am blessed to have known them, to have spent time with them, to have been ministered to by them.  I have shared tears with them, and watched their amazing journey.  Prayed for them, and with them.  Loved them.

And I am so, so, so, SOOO grateful to have had them in my life.  In OUR life, because it is so much richer with their examples, and their faith in a God whose ways are not always understood, and their examples of how to do love and marriage right.





If you want to read more of their story, you can read here or here.