Happy Valentine's Day

Holidays are mixed bags.

Stuffed with memories that evoke very strong feelings, they can be wonderful and almost unbearable.

They are a time of reflection. A time to share, your love, your time, your wit, your inner most thoughts and so many more things that might not be so pleasant.

If there is one thing I have learned it is that love springs from the lover. No one can stop you from loving and no one can be made to love you.

I look back and am utterly flabbergasted by how quickly my life has flown by. It seems like only yesterday I was eating 25 cent hot fudge sundaes with my mom, wishing desperately to be a mother, looking at the tears in my husband's eyes when our son was born, going to my other son's college graduation, catching my newborn granddaughter in my own hands . . . how did it pass so quickly?

Today is Valentine's Day, a day famous for lovers and I am blessed to be a lover . . .

Of so much.