Ode to ~* LOVE *~ Day

Happy Valentine's Day!

Marc and I spent the day together, and with our *~ love ~* child, which is what I called Madeleine all day long. We did 4 loads of laundry, fixed 3 meals for the upcoming week, cleaned the house a bit and... enjoyed each others' company! We also did a little booty shakin' and huggin' at a church dance. Yes, a church dance. It was nice to see some friends and to have an excuse to (try) dancing. And Madeleine was fascinated with the whole evening event.

The night before, we'd had a great meal out with friends. Italian food is definitely a food for a *^love^* holiday. Yum!

Our extended Valentine's weekend also included chocolate fondue tonight and (at my request and Marc's chagrin) looking through all our old love letters and notes to each other. Of which there are many since we did the long distance thing for 9 months of our 13 month dating life. It was both astonishing and hilarious to read through all our old love notes. Marc was so fluffy and romantic! I was so well versed and realistic. ;)

The pics above are one from last year's Thanksgiving in the CiTy of LoVe, Paris; the other from this year with our love child at Love Park in Philadelphia.

And as an Ode to Love Day, I share some of my favorite quotes and thoughts on love:

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotton Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. ~John 3:16

In art, as in love, instinct is enough. ~Anatole France

You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right; love is eternal. ~E.M. Forster, A Room With A View

Then they spoke of other things - the desultroy talk of those who have been fighting to reach one another, and whose reward is to rest quietly in each other's arms. ~ibid.

I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love... love that overthrows life. Unbiddable. Ungovernable, like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. Love like there has never been in a play. ~Shakespeare in Love

Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn, to be on fire! ~Jane Austen, Sense & Sensibility

Sole partner, and sole part of all my joy, dearer thyself than all. ~Milton

[The two] unconsciously studied each other, ever balanced on the edge of passion, yet apparently keeping out of it. All the while they were converging under an irresistable law, as surely as two streams in one vale. ~Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'ubervilles (I think.)