Moment By Moment

Every moment that we are given to share together is a priceless treasure to us.  There is not a day that goes by where my Husband Curtis will not mention, comment or post about the value of our togetherness. We share this mutual understanding that our togetherness is not only personal but rather unique. We were talking the other day which was a rainy one, about how to spend the day together.A rainy day for us can be wonderfully spent snuggling up watching and giggling about the silly antics of our furbabies- our basset hounds.  In our life of 6 years together now we have been taught that [time] spent together, wherever or however that may be, is something that we need not ever take for granted.

 It doesn't require a whole lot of fuss for us if you ask me or my husband Curt. Although my sweet husband is a truly romantic man and insists on going out of his way to get me the loveliest of flowers and a special card, he understand completely that I do not need anything extravagant from him on Valentine's Day or any other day on the calendar. I do the same for him, I get him a special card too! We actually have a scrapbook of our cards to each other. A dinner outing together is what we normally do. Ahh but yesterday, suddenly he was hit with the flu while he was at work. My poor man had to come home and from there I nursed him and cancelled our dinner outing plans. I tucked him into bed and went to work to get ahead of the flu and its nastiness. He is always a good and cooperative patient for me whenever he gets sick. Me personally, I consider it a blessing whenever I am the one to take care of him and comfort him when sickness comes his way. He got me these beautiful roses the day before Valentine's Day for Valentine's Day ♡♡♡ I just love him! Before he was knocked down with the flu yesterday he posted to me this beautiful message on our Facebook page... That and a very special few tantalizingly romantic texts about his thoughts and feelings and plans for our evening. I consider these little things about my sweet husband Curt, the greatest gifts I could ever receive on Valentine's Day...any day really. The LOVE he so freely and openly expresses to me is something beyond measure. I love my "Forever Valentine" ♡♡♡ 

A special message from my husband he posted to Facebook

Nursing my sweet husband on Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day Roses from my baby Curt 

 

November 30, 2015

My Partner Sous Chef At Home 

In 6 years my sweet husband Curt has become quite skilled at shopping with me at International food markets for my cooking styles.  He's still very intrigued by the various herbs, spices, sauces and techniques in cooking foods from around the globe.  I love seeing these things all over again through his fascination. I'm Asian-Latina, he's an Italian-Irishman. But I tell you what this man of mine can get down cooking in our kitchen like a Latin-Asian man today!  He's cooked in my Mom's kitchen in Georgia and alongside my sister in our kitchen and he's memorized a few of my dad's recipes my dad taught him before my dad passed.  This was yesterday on my run to the international market by our house ♡

"There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer, no disease that enough love will not heal, no door that enough love will not bridge, no wall that enough love will not throw down, no sin that enough love will not redeem... It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough, you could be the happiest and most powerful being in the world..."  ~Emmet Fox

 “It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”  
 ― John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love

I love our life together! By nature my husband is such a sweet man! I love the memories and moments we continue to share together.

The picture of my sweetheart with his hands together here on the left was taken one Sunday morning. I absolutely LOVE this sweet and playful man of mine! So one morning he brought me a cup of coffee while I was reading up on something...when suddenly he did this bowing his head and putting his hands together, after I took the coffee cup from his hand. I know it to have a lot to do with his often expressed appreciation of my half Asian ethnicity.

Anyway, I said: "Awwwww I love you!! Do it again baby so I can show other good-hearted men what sweetness it is to show kindness to their appreciative wives." My sweet husband was happy to oblige! No matter the highs or lows in life, I have been blessed to see my husband continue to spread his wings on a level that for years he was pretty much locked up emotionally within himself, whereas emotional expression is concerned. There's a history of this sort of self-isolation. Every day I see these walls continue to come down and I cherish this part of seeing him grow as a man, as my very best friend...and more importantly as my husband. In essence, I have been granted the exclusive opportunity to occupy and nurture a deeper place inside my husbands' being. It is something I do not ever take for granted.