My Dad & Valentine's Day

How appropriate that today is Valentine's Day. My dad loved Valentine's Day! He & my mom were married for 66 year before she died in 2007. He loved telling anyone who would listen how beautiful his Marge was. He ask you, "Isn't she beautiful?" She would always be kind of embarrassed, but I think she loved his sense of romance. He was a special man, my dad. Dad died a month ago today. He lasted 14 months without his bride and missed her everyday.
He never forgot his girls, all of us. He always got my mom the largest card he could find and there was always a gift or flowers or something special. He did special things for my sister, Patty and me too. Sometime he would find a vase and put flowers in them for us. One time he bought these vases at Pic n Save (now known as Big Lots). They were beautiful hand painted (probably in China) and the glass wasn't very thick. He started dropping those glass marbles in and the vases promptly broke in his hands. He was so frustrated, but he preserved and I got my flowers in that beautiful glass vase. I don't remember what the flowers were, but I remember the vase. Some years he gave us plants, sometimes See's Candy(my favorite), but always a card. That's what love is all about, remembering those you love here and the one's who have gone ahead. I miss them both very much.