It started off as an idea germinating in my head after I saw what Madi gave Adam for Valentine's Day: 100 hearts filled with things that she loved about him. Then I saw that my friend Alicia did a similar thing for her husband, and I know from what he told Steve that he absolutely loved it and was touched by the things she had written. Could I come up with 100 things I loved about Steve? I knew I could, but how do you put feelings and a sense of things into words. I love Steve for so many reasons. So on Friday, while at work, I started with one text:
Reason #1 of why I love you: you work hard to provide for your family.
And throughout the day, I sent him another one and another one so that by the end of the day I had texted 100 reasons. Some were funny, some were sexy, some were heart breaking reminders of carrying each other, some were sweet and tender. I reminded him of things that he had forgotten, and of things that he thought I had forgotten. Throughout the day, I pulled back the layers of time in my mind and revisited 26 years of time together. It made me even more in love with him than I realized. And so grateful that I am his and he is mine.
