This really should be a weekend that fits for Hayley's "Thankful Thursdays". If there is anyone that tends to forget about the basic things to be thankful for, it is me. I know this stuff, teach it all the time and know and understand it, but living it is a different thing. Lately, I've been focused on trying to make some positive changes in my life. Up and down I go, always trying to make this and that work, trying to find a better way to get the blasted paperwork done---do I work better at midnight now or at 4am? (answer here is neither one) My mom used to talk about how the older you get, the faster time goes by and I would laugh to myself and think "just let this crappy weekend at home on this farm get over with since I have no life!" Well, years later I now realize what she meant. Even with the best laid plans, I find myself over-planning and often not leaving enough time for the things that matter the most...and one of those is in the photo above. 'The one that is always there at the end of the day for me...the one that shops for groceries, does laundry, vacuums, rakes the leaves and the list goes on. Did I mention that since my work has started going later with supervision and I'm going to the fitness center daily and getting home even LATER, that he is also cooking supper just about every night??????????? Yes, ladies, that's what I said. I usually do the cleanup, but he always gets up and helps package up the leftovers.
I don't really know how I got so lucky and all...maybe God decided the old girl needed a break. But this Valentines Day I decided I wanted to make note once again of how very dear he is to my heart. For those of you that know the journey I have travelled on and how amazing it really is that I am where I am today...you know that much of it is due to Steve Baer. I hope he plans to live to be 102. This morning at 5:00am (Lordy!) when I was listening to Pandora.com, I was really listening to the words of one of my favorite Rascal Flatts songs, "Every Day". I started crying for a while because I realized how the lyrics were just as if I had written them to Steve. I sure wish I could sing...for sing I would. So, instead, you will just have to listen to it and read the lyrics and know they come from my heart.
It really is my Valentine wish for each of you to find and know this kind of love. It's not always perfect, but it is sure as close as it gets for me.
You could've bowed out gracefully
But you didn't You knew enough to know
To leave well enough alone
But you wouldn't I drive myself crazy
Tryin' to stay out of my own way
The messes that I make
But my secrets are so safe
The only one who gets me
Yeah, you get me
It's amazing to me
How every day
Every day, every day
You save my life
I come around all broken down and crowded out
And you're comfort
Sometimes the place I go Is so deep and dark and desperate
I don't know, I don't know
Sometimes I swear, I don't know if I'm comin' or goin'
But you always say something without even knowin'
That I'm hangin' on to your words with all of my might and it's alright
Yeah, I'm alright for one more night-
Every day Every day, every day, every day Every day, every day
You save me, you save me, oh, oh, oh
Every day Every, every, every day-Every day you save my life
~Rascal Flatts~
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