Happy Valentine's Day!

I remember making a stink about Husband not giving me flowers in high school on Valentine's Day. I was such a brat. He gave me this little gold pin in the shape of a rose, and I didn't appreciate it at all. That night he showed up with a dozen roses. I think he made his dad go get them for me because I was being such a brat. My Spanish teacher (my favorite one) called me a spoiled B every year after when I got roses on Valentine's Day. I am still a brat. Every year I ask my husband if he is going to send me flowers. This year he teased me and said, "But Valentine's Day is Saturday." They showed up this time early, in first period. They are so pretty. I don't know how I will carry them home. Maybe I will leave them here. Only it's a long weekend.

Every morning when my alarm goes off, I snooze for about twenty minutes, but in that time I am praying. So I lay in bed and try to count my blessings and ask God to bless everyone in my family. Ever since I was little, it was the same litany of prayers: Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be, and the Chabacano prayer Mamang taught me that I think translates: Bless the chalice, bless the altar, bless my bed, where I lay my head, and then I say, "Dear God, Please bless (this part is said very quickly, imagining faces while I think them) My mothers, my fathers, my grandmothers, my grandfathers, my aunts, my uncles, my sisters, my brothers, my cousins, my nieces, my pets and my friends." Since I've been married, I have added: And most of all, please bless my husband that I am so lucky to have and keep him healthy because he is everything to me, and please bless my baby with health and safety." Today I thanked God for our house and my job, even though things are so uncertain, I want to be grateful for them while we have them. Twenty minutes goes by so fast. I try to start the day counting blessings because it's so easy to get caught up in dread and anxiety and negative thinking.

Despite the rain, I hope everyone has a great weekend. A great Valentine's Day, and if you have the day off, a great President's weekend.

Peace Out.