Love hides...

...in the strangest places. Who would have thought that our chance meeting at that party would have led to this. A twelve year relationship, a ten year marriage and a beautiful child (still only one right?). Today is February 7th, 2009. It hasn't been a particularly special day in any way. We went bowling earlier. You had a 134 game and were pretty proud of it. Reese is about to lose her third tooth in the last month. It hasn't even been a particularly special year. We both voted for the same presidential candidate for the first time ever. Hopefully he hasn't screwed things up too bad by now. We're still working the same jobs we've been at, despite everyone else's struggles. I'm back in school. You're thinking about going back to school. I wonder if you're actually studying nursing now or something else. I know it's been a long time since I sincerely told you how I feel about you. I'm sorry that I don't tell you more often how much you mean to me and how glad I am to have you in my life. I'm so in love with you, as much as I was when we first got married. I hope the next ten years with you are as good as the last ten have been. Love hides in familiar faces. I'm so incredibly glad I found it in yours. I love you forever, Drew BTW, I keep all these things you've sent me. I thought you might appreciate this: Sent: Mon 12/20/99 10:39 PM Drew, Thank you so very much for coming home to see me on Sunday. It makes me feel incredible to know that someone cares about me as much as you've showed me over the past month. You are the most important person in my life. You have shown me that it is possible to find love in the most unexpected places. I never thought that I would ever fall head over heels in love with someone who was a complete stranger and whom I have almost nothing in common with. You complete me. You make me feel like I am the most beautiful person. You make me feel like I can do no wrong. And that I can accomplish anything. You are my sunshine. You are the reason why I smile as much as I do. You have changed me more than anyone has ever changed me. You have made me more confident in everything I do. Thank you once again for coming home for the day to see me. You will never understand how much it meant to me to be held in your arms for one night. Or how good I felt when you kissed me. I truly love you. I know that I say it often but it is because I want you to know it. Love is a very powerful word, like you said. But the feeling I get when I am with you is the most uplifting feeling. I can't say I've never been in love before, because that would be a lie. But I can say that every past love I have ever had pales in comparison to the love I have for you. And that is why I can say I want to spend forever with you. I long for the day when I will hear I love you forever Nikki. But for now I want to make every day with you count. I want every day to be better then the last. I want to grow love you more and more each day. I want to be with you all the time. I want to watch you fall asleep at night and wake up in the morning. I want to kiss you every chance I get. I want to hold you all the time and never let you go. There is so much I want to say. I want to tell you everything that I feel at this moment but there just aren't enough words to tell you exactly what you mean to me. I love you. That sums it up in three little words. That is exactly how I feel about you. As I write this letter I have goose bumps all over my body and tears flowing down my cheeks. I am scared that you will read this and think that I am crazy. But it's nothing you shouldn't already know. I am just putting into words for you. Love me Always, Nikki