365 Days of Impacts

Most of you know that I HATE Valentine's day. Besides being a Hallmark Holiday pretty much created to sell cards, candy and flowers - it is completely overrated. The real reason I hate Valentine's day is that I've been engaged 3 times. The first two persons that I was engaged to both broke up with me on Valentine's day. It is not a day that I look forward to. I can say this had a big impact on me, and not in a positive way.   That said, I have found my perfect valentine in Dennis - he is amazing in every way and has my heart forever! He knows how much I do not like this day.   Dennis treats me nice all 365 days of the year , not just one. And this, my friends is the true meaning of a valentine.

Many of you know that I love to sing. On my wedding day, I thought there would be nothing more special than to sing a song to Dennis. I wanted it to be a bluegrass song. I wanted it to be a song that most people knew the words to the chorus so they could sing along. I settled upon You are my Sunshine - an old bluegrass staple written in 1939 by Jimmie Davis and Charlie Mitchell. It is one of the state songs of Louisiana. Despite its happy melody and chorus, it is quite a sad song if you look up the real lyrics. So, I decided to rewrite the lyrics of the song to fit the man I was going to sing it to... The other night dear as I lay sleeping I dreamed you held me in your arms And when I woke dear, my heart was taken Stolen by your ever loving charm (Chorus) You are my sunshine, my only sunshine You make me happy when skies are gray You'll never know dear, how much I love you please don't take my sunshine away. When I am down dear, your spirit lifts me Yo...

My Bugman, My Boyscout, My Husband, Dennis Dale Williams. For 39 years I was in search of my match, my soulmate - the person who like in Jerry McGuire "completes me". While I've only known him since 2004, I feel like I've known him in former lives. He just gets me. The beauty is that he does not discount who I've been in the past, he doesn't stifle who I am today, who I am becoming, he does not expect me to be something I'm not, he encourages me to be the best I can at what I am interested in, and he keeps me from doing things that put my life at risk (well, basically when it comes to asthma - he can't control the way that I do like to dance on the edges of cliffs and on rickety bridges more stories to come). As they say, timing is everything, and in this case MANY VARIABLES had to align for us to be together. Dennis was separated and had a Harley Sportster motorcycle for sale that he had bought for his soon-to-be ex-wife. He had told his former c...