If Your Kisses Were Wishes

So this is how the story goes. Brittney is always giving me a hard time because she says i don't write her any poetry. i don't know where she got this idea because I wrote her one poem when we were dating and then from then on its like she expects me to write her poetry everyday. i don't know about you but i'm no Shakespeare and poetry does not come to me naturally. So about a couple of months before Christmas I started a poem for her, but put it aside thinking i would have a lot of time to finish it. Now and again i would pull it out make some changes and wait for inspiration to hit. i had about 2 stanzas done and it was a week before Christmas. Time was ticking and I was waiting for my inspiration. 2 days before Christmas, i was at work and my inspiration came. i wrote the rest of the poem at work between calls and i didn't have to make any changes i was so pleased with it. So I printed it on a nice piece of paper, rolled it up and tied it with a nice ribbon, and put it in her stocking Christmas eve. The next morning she was pretty excited. So here it is. (p.s. you husbands out there have my permission to copy it and give it to your wife's for v-day, trust me, they'll love it)

If Your Kisses Were Wishes

If your kisses were wishes

Then I'd wish to retire

So I could always be with you

And give you all your hearts desire

If your kisses were dollars

Then a rich man I'd be

I'd buy you the whole world

And we could live comfortably

If you kisses were notes

For you a concerto I'd compose

That had a sweet melody

Made of harps, violins, strings and bows

If your kisses were colors

Than in the sky so blue

I'd paint you a beautiful rainbow

With every color of every hue

If your kisses were stars

Then space would be filled with light

There would be billions and trillions

With no difference between day and night

If you kisses were roses

Everywhere seas of red would grow

They would fill the driest deserts

And blossom in the coldest winters snow

If your kisses were wishes

Then the one thing I'd wish

is in the very next moment

To give you a KISS!

I LOVE YOU BRITTNEY!!! HAPPY EARLY V-DAY!!!!!!

Husbandly Love

kyle works every other saturday and yesturday was a working day. he gets off at four, and when he came home i happened to be grocery shopping with jen. i got home around five and he had left. when i called him to see where he was, he said that he couldn't tell me because he was buying my valentines day present. when he finally got home, he wanted me to open it right away instead of waiting for the 14th. i asked him if he was sure, and he was. my baby got me a hp laptop! i coundn't believe it, i was so excited. we were going to get one for christmas, but thought that the money would be put to better use by getting my car paid off sooner.

i was so surprised to see it on my kitchen table. then, as i started to open everything, i thought about how he had been talking about that fact that he was going to need a laptop and a new phone for his new job. the stinker, he really got it mostly for himself and used valentines day as an excuse to buy it. when i called him on it, he confirmed it with a smug smile saying he had figured out "man's secret of gift giving. buy something that you really want yourself" and i add to that "something you really want yourself that you might have a difficult time sharing in the future" right now, he is sharing just fine, but i can see in the future him not sharing 50-50. i really don't mind kyle buying a gift that he will use just as much as me, i just like how he called it my present. i've already caught him refering to it as "my laptop". i just have to laugh, he is so cute and funny.

but he is not always funny. the other night, i asked him if he liked the name "brooklyn" for a little girl in the future, and now he likes it better than "addison". he has tried to convince me to switch to that name now. kyle says that when i'm in the recovery room, he is going to sign the name papers with either felicity (a name he loves and pictures for a littel girl with flowing red hair), addison, or brooklyn. i told him that i'd kill him if he did something like that behind my back. he thinks this is hilarious and that he is so funny and clever.

well, obviously i still haven't gone into labor yet. i am very disappointed. i am terrified that the baby gains several ounces every minute and that she will be a miniature elephant when she finally arrives. i hope i have continued to efface and dilate since tuesday. i have had random contractions that don't feel very strong and are not painful at all. i don't know if these would be called "braxton hicks" or not since i am so close to delivery. i do also have very dull cramping every once in a while that continues to became more frequent. i heard that that is a sign labor is near. baby continues to move all the time and the only painful movements are the ones that are straight down. they're not too painful at all, but i like to think of them helping me to efface more.
well, kyle needs me to get off the laptop because he needs to use it. he is so funny!