Day of Love!

Valentine's day. I'm not quite into it however, since having children I am trying hard to be into every holiday and create our own family traditions. I also like setting standards for things. For instance, Christmas we set a present limit to ourselves children and from others.

Jimmy and I have been together for 9 years this year and thought I'd put forth some effort. For Valentines day,  I really wanted to hone in on our Love languages. My mom had recently given me a book about love languages and the military. Very interesting read! My husband's love language is words of affirmation and so I've been all over Pinterest trying to find the perfect thing for him. I found that perfect thing. It's the open when.... cards. All this week I have been writing special things to go in each one and to make them my own with things he'd appreciate. Here are my open when envelopes.

want to know my dreams for the future

need a reminder of what makes you a great dad

need a reminder of why you love me

 need a reminder of why I love you

need a reminder of why you joined the Army (if you're a military spouse you know why this one is included)

 You are feeling insecure

You are missing me

You are missing the kids

you need a laugh

You've had a bad day

You can't make a decision about something

You need motivation

Now, I'm not a lovey dovey writer nor am I a feelings kind of person sooooo this proved to be a little hard to start but I love the way they came out. A confession: all them have humor in them. I tried hard to be serious but sometimes I couldn't help it ;)

a little #tbt for you