Valentine’s Blessings

Valentine’s Day was a little differently planned for us this year.  Dan came home from his training last Monday to say his training trip to Atlanta would be scheduled for early this week.  I said, “Great! That means it will be on Valentine’s Day!” He looked at me almost confused and said, “That isn’t tomorrow!”  Ha ha! He was relieved because he thought the day had sneaked up on him.  This training has been brutal so he was just a little overly tired too.

Sure enough! He came home with his schedule with a 2:00 am departure time on Valentine’s Day morning.  The return time was after 8:00 pm.  UGH!  This meant he would be gone from 12:30 am until 10:00 pm.  Even worse, he would be awake for over 22 hours! 

We made the most of it.  To help the trainees prepare with rest, he was home early afternoon on Monday. We enjoyed some time together, and around eight, he tried to sleep while the rest of the house tried to be quiet! At midnight, he surprised me with some roses he had picked up, and he gave each of our girls their own chocolate heart boxes and a silk rose for them to wake up too.  Off he went to work.  It was quite sad.

So on Valentine’s Day, I get this picture.  To get a better understanding, let me just say that Bass Pro is our number one date place to go.  We love it, and we could spend hours only in the fishing selections.  It is always a place that we go to TOGETHER!  In the last two weeks, Dan has visited three Bass Pro’s.  Now, he didn’t know they were going to be regular stops for the tour coaches to drop off and pick up (so he says).  On his training trip to Charlotte, we actually joked about wishing it was so he could get some needed stuff, and then he called to tell me he was there and buying what we needed.  Then on Friday, he visited an awesome one on in Sevierville, TN.  Yesterday, he sends this picture.  The caption read, “#3, but not going in.”  Yeah, right!  They went in!  Lol! 

Needless to say I was just a tad bummed.  My hubby had to be gone, and he got to visit our fave store!  Then, he sent me a text at 4ish to say they were an hour from Asheville.  Then, he called me to let know that he was on his way home!  Such relief and joy!  He was coming home.  While I thought Valentine’s Day was going to be a very long day, it was so nice to have a family dinner with daddy and a nice unexpected evening together!  Our kids even managed to disappear upstairs with the DVD player to watch a movie.  I think the words Sarah used were, “You need to just have some time together since we ate dinner together; can we please watch a movie upstairs?!” lol… I think she heard Abby talking about how said it was that Dan and I weren’t having a date last night.  Abby even offered to buy us dinner out one night coming up, but she didn’t want to go with us!  I love my kids!

I am thankful for the little unexpected blessing that God gives us along the way!