"OUR LOVE STORY"

TWO HANDS.....

BECAME ONE HEART

I'm joining "Share Your Love Story" with Karen at My Desert Cottage for a Valentine's Day Celebration of Love. This is "Our Love Story" looking back in time....

I LOVED TEDDY BEARS and BABY DOLLS and LIVED IN CA.

HE LOVED FISHING and SWIMMING and LIVED in CANADA

THEN THIS HANDSOME SAILOR JUMPED FOR GLEE FOR HE HAD FOUND HIS BELOVED,  AS YOU WILL SEE

HE LOVED THE WATER SO MUCH, WHEN HE GREW UP HE WENT TO SEA, AS A SAILOR IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY AND THAT WAS HOW IT WAS MEANT TO BE

THIS HANDSOME SAILOR WROTE MANY LETTERS and GAVE  ME HIS NAVY RING while HE WAS SAVING FOR THE REAL THING 

THE BIG DAY CAME and WE WERE WED

WENT ON A HONEYMOON AS YOU CAN SEE, BUT THERE IS MUCH MORE TO THIS JOURNEY

WE HAD QUITE A LIFE  and the  RIDE WAS SOMETIMES BUMPY and WAS TAKEN IN STRIDE

CAMPING, RIVER RAFTING, MOTOR CYCLING TOO!

THEN BABIES WERE BORN,  FOUR WERE TO BE.... and NOW THESE KIDS had to GROW UP and LIVE RESPONSIBLY (BIG HAIR) and BIG FLOPPY HAT, SKINNY TIES and all of THAT

We knew each other for 6 months from the day we Met to the day we Wed. We met at a party in Belmont Shore while he was on a weekend pass. The first thing he ever said to me is "You are the girl I'm going to take home to Mother," I thought he was crazy, he was persistent and vowed it was "Love at First Sight," for me well, I needed a little more time and I had recently finished a relationship and felt foot loose and fancy free. A few more weekend passes, lots of phone calls and many letters later he stole my Heart for good. We had more fun packed into 20 Wonderful years through the thick and thin, Four Children and a good life full of joys, blessings, ups and downs! I am truly grateful for that persistent young man My Best Friend, Husband, and Father of our Children, he left behind a Family of four Not fully grown,(not by choice) and a Legacy of Five Grandchildren. My feelings are "It is better to be Loved and to have Lost, than never Loved at all." We had the Real Deal, some never find it, some just settle and some just don't know what they have! We were Blessed, would we do it all over again? Yes! In a Heartbeat, I was Blessed, thank God for our time we had and my Love for him has stayed in the recesses of my Heart.... just Memories since 1981, a life well lived, gone but not Forgotten.......            Would you like to see a little bit of that Legacy, then go visit Jill at  Gypsy Brocante for a sweet surprise (granddaughter #3) is whipping up a little Valentine "Chocolate Surprise Cake" just for you and The Porch Club, see chocolate always makes things better!!