remnants of love

(...a love two-fer!)

right now (at least for the sake of this post) there are two basic kinds of love in my life:  friendly/platonic love (some call it agape) that applies to not just my romantical relationship, but to friends and family too. the other kind (some call eros) is the deep, unconditional, head-over-heels, wholly emotional sort of love that i feel, specifically, to him. luckily this year, my valentine's day was a two-fer: i got to experience both eros and agape love in one single evening, with people near and dear to my heart. 

which just further fueled my fire of loving valentine's day so very, very much. 

the day started out great: i dropped a valentine off to my love, and then bought silly kid valentines for my coworkers, which i dropped secretly off at everyone's desk, with some candy and a little cutie to make the day special. i love giving secret fun things like that! then, later that evening, i got to meet up with my small group of women, at the local fro-you shop. i had bought everyone a journal, and asked each girl to bring a kind sentence or two about each of the group members. at the fro yo shop, we each got our own journal, and then passed them around, writing our kind words about each girl in their own personal journal. a few hours later, after lots of sweet treats (so yummy, the shop even had valentine flavored fro yo and toppings, and lots of heart decorations! a perfect choice for the evening of love), laughter and chatter, we parted ways. i left with my own journal full of sweet, kind words from 9 women that really know me and my heart. it really filled my heart to have such love surrounding me throughout the evening, and illustrated the true meaning of love and friendship. 

menchies: have a smiley day!

when i came home, my back door was blockaded by the most beautiful, tropical, amazing bouquet of flowers i'd ever received! a silly, pink carebear card attached let me know it was a hand delivered gift from my favorite valentine. i knew it was super special because we had just gotten off the phone and he was still at his office, downtown, which means that he came from his office to drop the flowers off, and then went all the way back (after 7pm) to work. i also noticed right away that the bouquet had two stems of Bells of Ireland, a flower we are so excited to have at our wedding. i thought it was a lovely coincidence, because honestly what guy a) knows what a Bell of Ireland is (i didn't even til we started wedding planning), and b) what guy knows what specific flowers are going to be at his wedding? answer: my man. cause he told me later that he went to the flower shop and picked the Bells of Ireland specifically, and asked for the bouquet to be made around them. um, hi. could i love him anymore?! i think not!! 

bells of ireland are the tall, green stems on either side

all in all, the day was amazing, and i was surrounded by love and friends. i could not have asked for a better valentine's day. i hope yours was equally as loving! 

i couldn't help but put two pictures up, i love them so much