Valentines Day Redemption

There are now officially 3 people who know that I have a blog. I told the third today sort of in passing so Michelle if you are reading this you are probably now fully aware that this blog is nothing more than me rambling about my world. It is fine though. The people who know about this are people that I would have told anyways so in reality it is all still good. If anything it gives insight to my mood for the day and for all three of you this information can be beneficial. :)
Soooo Valentines Day.
Well originally Valentines Day sucked and I was just going to leave it at that. No card, no flowers, no dumb heart shaped box of chocolate. Just a unenthusiastic Happy Valentines Day on the way home from work. Let me clarify though...... the sucky part of Valentines Day really stems from my own expectations not being met which technically allows me to only be half mad at Billy. We had agreed originally that we would not be getting eachother anything but after last Wednesday and the whole ticket incident he made it clear that I deserved a really nice Valentines Day gift, AND I also broke the rule and bought him a gift that I gave to him Friday night. Sooooo I assumed (and we all know what assuming does) he would just know to get me something. Well that didnt happen. I made it clear that I wasn't mad just disappointed and it was my own fault because the agreement was no gifts. I could tell that even though I wasnt mad or acting disappointed or anything Billy was disappointed in himself. So Wednesday came and both Billy andI have class Wednesdays. He calls me when I am on my way home and says he stayed home tonight because I felt bad about not doing anything for Valentines Day so he made me my favorite dinner that he makes (lemon chicken) and put the majority of the laundry away, did the dishes, and cleaned Emma's toys up. It was very nice. It was just an all around pleasant thing. He told me that he didnt get me flowers because he is now aware that that is not my love language. To help you understand this....there is a book out called the 5 languages of love and my small group went over a study on it. We found that my love language is acts of service while his is more words of affirmation. It is an excellent book and really opens my eyes to the way to make a marriage work and work well. Okay that was my plug. Back to V-Day, so he was absolutely right. Flowers are nice but a gift that shows he cares is helping me with some of my everyday tasks. He definitely made my Valentines Day special even though about 24 hours late. Better late then never.