What is love?
I mean really, really really love?
It’s feeling the spark when we first said hello
and kissing you good-bye, not wanting to let go
it’s every time you’d call and the feelings I’d feel
it’s all those and more that made our love seem so real
It was dreaming the dreams of what was to come
and making me feel brilliant when I’d say something dumb!
It was the hope that I felt when we both said I DO….
and the million other things that makes our love true…
But It’s also…
the dirty laundry, budgets and bills
and loving me still, without all of the thrills.
Sometimes…. candlelit dinners or just good old Taco Bell
It’s giving me space when I’m giving you hell!
It’s loving my kids and making them yours
It’s all of my baggage that you have endured
It’s twenty years of some pretty big ups and downs
it’s sticking it out and hanging around
Ahhh yes the meaning of love has changed a bit through the years
and for me I know now it’s because you’re still here!
Happy Twentieth My Love!
In Twenty years I have learned this….
“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed,
revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.”
― Audrey Hepburn
So awesome, beautiful and what a blessing. Happy for you both. Thanks for the quote from Audrey Hepburn. I was blessed to have met her and she was wonderful.
Thank you Ann!
xoxo
Sweet Diane, where have you been? I visit often thinking I’ve missed a post. I hope all is well and perhaps you are so busy with ‘your book’. xo 🙂
Debbie,
So sorry that I have been gone for so long! We have connected since this post but I was going back to answer some lost posts that I missed and between holidays and a little vacation… I seem to be still trying to catch up!
Your book is wonderful! Anyone who wants to be captivated needs to click on you and follow the path to your wonderful newly published book!
xoxo
Welcome home Di! 🙂 Glad to have you back and thanks again for your too kind words. So glad we met! xo
La Multi Ani 2014 !
Aliosa.
Thank you! That was beautiful! Happy New Year!
Wishing you a magical Christmas season and all the good things in 2014! 🙂
Geraldine!
Thank you! I am so bad! I am just getting back from vacation and the holidays and am just now sitting down to answer you guys!
xoxo
Congratulations! You have been nominated for the Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award. 🙂
http://yadadarcyyada.wordpress.com/2013/12/17/i-won-another-award/
Here goes – If you don’t accept awards or have already been given this award (perhaps many times) because others have already recognized how awesome your blog is, no problem, just know, you all make it easier to get through!!! Thanks.
And Happy Anniversary!!!
Thank you!
Sorry, Diane, forgot to give you the link on the award nomination (Blog of the Year 2013 Award). Here it is: http://plaintalkandordinarywisdom.com/happy-surprises-nearing-the-end-of-this-year-blog-of-the-year-2013-award/.
Hi Diane – wanted to let you know I nominated you for the “Blog of the Year 2013 Award”. Hope you can accept.
Thank you Pat!
I sooo appreciate your support!
xoxxo
Hi Diane – it’s good to see you here again. I’ve missed you. You’re truly welcome on the award. I’m happy to share you with my readers. Hope you have a beautifully wonderful New Year, my friend. 🙂
Happy Anniversary Diane! Beautiful picture (you haven’t changed much) and such a sweet, touching and romantic poem! I wish you both all the best.
Vashti
Thank you! Happy New Year!
xoxo
Beautiful. What more can I say?
Oh yes. And congratulations. 🙂
Thank you! I am just now catching up with my comments but am determined to thank you guys for reading! So sorry it took so long!!!!
But I appreciate your time in reading and commenting!
xoxo
Congratulations ….!(belated)
and for Many Many more!
Take Care…You Matter…
)0(
maryrose
Maryrose,
Thank you so much! Happy New Year! I look forward to our writing journey in the coming year!
xoxo
THANK YOU EVERYONE for the great wishes!
I just had to share this!!!!!
It probably should be another blog and maybe I will make it one eventually
but wanted to share with you for now here…
We just returned from a little Anniversary get away! My daughter was in a play where they needed some professional actors up in a little mountain top theater and we all…were days of almost getting snowed in!
I was freaking out cuz my daughter had to get to her real job and was going to leave at night or early in the morning. The day after we left for LA to spend a couple days with our friends. I was sharing my concern with Jody my BFF as we were sitting in our car and she said “Lets Pray” She said a simple little prayer with simple requests about weather and my daughter’s good choices… then we went in to shop… when we came out later… the storm had passed… the sun was shining and they had canceled the last performance for that weekend and she was already home safe.
Is God good or what?!
Glad you having some fun time with family and friends, Diane. Enjoy and take care.
God is so good. We don’t need to emote, when we speak with Him, or ask for anything. A simple prayer will suffice. He is our Daddy, so come before Him, as the child He just simply loves. Have a great 2014. Blessings.
Parrillaturi,
Thanks for the wonderful reminders! Happy New Year to you!
I look forward to getting to know all my blogging friends and readers even better as we share in 2014!
xoxo
Di
Congratulations, Diane and your handsome man on 20 years of marriage. What a beautiful couple you are. I’m so happy for you.
How wonderful that you shared this special day with us. Congratulations!
Have a great day. 🙂
Elizabeth!
Thank you for stopping by! Sorry that it took me so long to reply!
xoxo
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to you too. 🙂
Lovely! Happy Anniversary!
Thank you!!!! I am not sure how I missed these comments but I appreciate your time in reading and commenting and I hope you keep returning because I sure do appreciate you!
xoxo
Happy Anniversary!
You have a star waiting for you at catnipoflife for the Blog Of The Year 2013 Award.
More about this nomination is at http://catnipoflife.wordpress.com/2013/12/06/three-stars-blog-of-the-year-2013/
Cat
Thanks so much for always supporting me!
Sorry I have been out of commission for a while but I am back!
Happy New Year!
A lot of good sentiments and realities of what love is…. Happy 20th… Diane
Thank you! Sorry this is a late post but been gone for a while! Your wishes are appreciated and I look forward to reading your posts as well!
Happy New Year!
Congratulations – in time we come to know love is a circle, not a line, when two come together the flower of life results …
http://thespiritscience.net/spirit/flower-of-life/
Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year
PS: Loved your poem too.
Happy Anniversary. What a gorgeous photo of you too!
Thank you my friend!
Happy New Year to you!
Happy Anniversary my dear friend. What a sensational poem this is, all encompassing what love is in life! Bravo! xo
Hey Deb,
I know that we have connected since and I just responded to one of your comments but I feel as if I am hiding under a pile of letters that I need to respond to and have just dropped them all on the floor and don’t know where I left off… lol.
So if this is redundant… you know my heart is in the right place
xoxo
😉
🙂 lol
Happy Anniversary. Your poem expresses what true love is all about. Wishes to the both of you on your special day.
Thanks Helen! Your wishes mean so much! Happy New Year!
xoxo
Great post, Diane! Happy Anniversary!
Bill,
I am not sure where I just replied to you but I want to make sure that you get my Happy New Year’s wishes and that I thank you for reading this! I am back and looking forward to catching up with ya!
xoxo
Happy |Anniversary lucky Lady. This post made my heart sing. 🙂
Oooh thank you! Happy New Year! Looking forward to reading more of your posts!x
xoxo
Happy Anniversary… Isn’t it wonderful to know that as our ‘self love’ grows… the depth of our love is reflected in the people and world around us… Congratulations and here’s to continued love… Barbara
Barbara,
I loved that! Thank you!
🙂
Happy Anniversary! Isn’t love grand? We just celebrated our 47th. When you allow God to be the center of your lives, love will endure. Blessings.
Dr. Johnny!
Thank you! Wow 47! I don’t even have to ask you how you did it! You answered it by telling us that it was God being the center of your lives! Amen! I am just beginning to understand what that means!
Happy New Year!
Beautiful! Happy twentieth to you both!
Happy Anniversary!
Congratulations…, and Happy Anniversary, D !!! May you have 20 more years…, followed by another 20…, and another 20. Stay happy, as I know you are.
Paul
Ahhh Paul,
Thank you so much! Sorry it took so long to get this thank you out! Happy New Year by the way! May it be grand for us all!
xoxo
Happy Happy Anniversary!!!!
Ahhh my sweet friend!
Thank you so much! It means so much having you as a part of those I call “friend” here! Happy New Year!!!!
Love ya!
Congratulations!!
Thank you soooo much! I am trying to get back into the swing of things as I go back to answer my replies and need to go read your new posts! Can’t wait!
Happy New Year!
A very Happy and Blessed Anniversary to you
Happy Anniversary. Lovely words!
cm
Thank you so much!
I just got back into trying to pick up my metaphorical pen and begin writing again! Sorry my replies are a little late!
Happy New Year!
Happy anniversary!
Madalina,
Thank you so much and Happy New Year to you! 🙂
xoxo
Happy anniversary…I have been reading some of your stories and poems this morning….WOW!!! Very impressed!!! Totally relate to you and love the depth of your feelings!!
Ahhh Thanks Linda! That means a lot to me! I have to come in for my anniversary cut! That is what I want for my present! He keeps asking me to go back to you! LOL.
How delightful! congratulations — love the pic! 🙂 Many blessings on this day and all the year’s to come.
Louise…
Thank you! Been catching up on all of my loose ends and been so touched by all those that still hung in while I was away!
xoxo
Happy New Year my friend!
Happy Anniversary!❤️
Thank you!!!!
xoxo