Valentines

Happy Valentines day my sweet wife! My gift to you this year is that in my absence I promise to be thinking of you all day. Every time I take off a toadstool and every time I set down on a platform I will think of you. Every time I make a radio call or check my fuel gauge I will think of you. Every time I get fuel and every time I start my engine I will wonder what you are doing and wish that I were with you. I wish I could be there to say it to your face, but just know that I love you. You are the best wife a man could ask for and I love you completely!

No Fun Without You

I am here in New Jersey! I'm like...20 min from New York City and I can't even think about driving in to scope it out without you. I just know it wouldn't be any fun. Or, I know it would be fun, but I can't imagine having that much fun and having any New York experiences without you. I think it's because everything is just MORE fun when we're together. Well, even if things aren't necessarily more fun when we're together, I just don't want to have any experience good/bad without you. I think that means I love you!

Movies

I love that we love the same movies. I can't imagine my life without you simply because I can't imagine finding anyone else who enjoys EXACTLY the same movies that I do. I don't think we ever fight about movies. I don't know if you always fall asleep during the movie and therefore could care less what we watch, but either way, it seems like we have the same taste in movies. I like that about you because I think I have good taste in movies and I can't respect people who like movies I know are total crap. To me, that says something about somebody. Maybe that's shallow...I dunno. But to me, the fact that you understand, and enjoy all kinds of good movies from foreign to classics means that you are broadminded, intelligent, and deep in a very approachable way. I love that about you. Let's watch a movie.

Keepin' Me Respectable

I love how you keep me respectable. It's not because you nag me to be or because you guilt me into it. You yourself maintain high standards and you influence me through your good example. I know there have been times where I have tried my best to be a bad influence on you and you have never caved on something you didn't want to do or didn't think was right. You've always given me freedom to do whatever I wanted, but I always follow you because I don't ever want to see you disappointed in me. Your respect means a lot to me and it's something I work for. But, your influence for good in me is the root of my actions. You are a good, good person.

Pictures

I love pictures of you. I'm excited to see us 20 years down the path laughing and reminiscing with pictures laid out on the floor. You will be as beautiful then as you are now. I'm grateful that I will get to be in pictures with you both young and old! It's a fun thought that I will know you as an elderly woman. We will putter with our tennis ball walkers. I'll get antsy and want to go on a walk and you'll want to sit on the couch and "dream" about what our lives will be like when we're 110 years old. We'll have a nice house filled with memories of our crazy kids and all their accomplishments and pictures hung of all the places we've gone on all our anniversaries.

You Get Me

I love how much you "get me." You know that coming home after a long trip of eating crappy food, it would make me happy to come home to a roast, a pizza kit, and various munchies! You "get me" in the sense that I trust you to know me in ways that no one else will ever know. You can tell when I'm stressed and know how to fix it. You know when I'm down that an interesting meal with some thoughtful presentation will perk me up. You know I'm going to buy chips when we stop at any gas station for any reason at any time, and you're cool with that because you know that's just me. I hope to grow to the level of understanding for you that you have of me.

Independence

I love how independent you are. I can leave you with my son and my guitars without a care knowing that you are capable of running the day to day operations of our family without me there. You are resourceful, clever, reliable and have great common sense. I trust you with everything I love most in my absence. There have been times I have been out of the picture for over a month and you have never truly complained or shown any inability to function. I love that about you. You know when I like you to be needy and and rely on me, but you know when to step up to the plate. You make me feel safe and grateful for that.