To the ones we LOVE

Valentine's Day is right around the corner and there is so much love in the air. Florist are working overtime, dinner reservations are at a premium, boxes of chocolates are flying off of the shelves, the really great cards are almost gone and jewelry purchases big and small will be presented to the ones we love. When I thought about the many different ways in which we try to express our love on Valentine’s Day I also thought about another way to say I love you.

The month of February has been deemed “American heart” month by the American Heart Association. The American Heart Association would also like for us to take the time this month to remind our loved ones to know their health numbers and to know what to do if a loved one thinks that he or she is experiencing a heart attack... with the focus on love this month I could not think of a better way to say I love you and to say how much I care about you.

For anyone who has lost a loved one to cardiovascular disease or to a stroke we know how important this heart information can be. So have a healthy heart conversation with the ones that we love this Valentine’s Day.

Trish

“For it was not into my ear you wispered, but into my heart.
 It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul” – Judy Garland

Visit the American Heart website to learn more about cardiovascular disease and stroke. http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/

Also Shop American Heart @ https://shop.heart.org/
and celebrate National Wear Red Day everyday!

In Loving Memory
Ross Berry Nicholas II
August 12, 1934 – February 6, 2011

February Spotlight:
A unique way to give and to help others in need. If you know of someone that needs a helping hand then check out Givelocally.net!
http://givelocally.net/


The Company Store’s Buy One Give One Program
Buy one comforter and The Company Store will donate one to a homeless child.
http://www.thecompanystore.com/Buy-One-Give-One


Velvet Ring Box (Photographer Unknown)

Trish Nicholas Photography @ www.wix.com/TrishN/Trish-Nicholas-Photography

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Happy Valentine's Day! XOXO!

It’s Just Because I Love You Day!

I would love to start a holiday called “It’s Just Because I love you Day”, a day for anyone celebrated by anyone. You would choose how and when the celebration begins and ends. Ok to those of you reading this you are probably wondering what kind of holiday is this. A holiday with no set date and month in which to celebrate it, well that’s a stupid idea…right…? No… Wrong!

Let’s take a look at Mother’s Day while it is still fresh in our minds. This is a day set aside in May to honor and celebrate Mom to the highest extent. We shower her with cards, flowers, gifts, and taking Mom out for dinner. A set date on the calendar that our minds have been programmed to engage in. For me I believe in a true expression of one’s emotions happening in real time, not in a day called Mother’s Day. Now don’t get me wrong it is nice to be treated special, no Sunday dinner to prepare, receiving lots of cards and gifts from loved ones. Yes, a very special day, but what about the other days on the calendar? I also happen to think that it would be great to have a day when you decide to do something special for your Mom or Dad or anyone for that matter just because you love them.

My first experience with it’s just because I love you day came early in my marriage one Valentine’s Day. I received a beautiful card from my husband and nothing else, my expectation was to also receive a box of chocolates and some flowers. I did not understand this ‘untraditional’ Valentine’s Day until many weeks later. It was on a Saturday when I was doing some house cleaning. I was in my sweat pants and t-shirt, hair pulled up with my total focus on getting the job done, when my husband walks in with this large box and some beautiful flowers. Right away I responded with it’s not my birthday, what’s the occasion?

There was no special occasion or date on the calendar; it was my husband’s real true emotions in his real time. This expression of his love for me far exceeded the traditional Valentine’s Day gifts that husbands present to their wives. Through out my marriage I have been the recipient of it’s just because I love you day, and I must say I have personally learned a great deal from this sincere expression of how much I am loved and thought about by my husband. I believe this is the greatest form of honor and celebration that you can bestow upon a person.

Why not surprise that special someone in your life with a just because I love you day and start your own personal holidays. Who knows, “It’s Just Because I Love You Day” may catch on?

What was in the box? A huge chocolate chip cookie in the shape of a heart that said… yes, you guessed it… Just because I love you!

Trish

Just Because

Just Because

Just Because
Just Because

Dance With Me

Dance With Me photo taken by Julius Nicholas

Photos by Trish

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If you have a just because I love you day experience and would like to share it with me,

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God loves each one of us as if there were only one of us. - St. Augustine

Have a safe Memorial Day weekend!

God Bless all of our service men and woman and their families.

Love Favorites

Now these three remain:
Faith, hope, and love
But the greatest of these is love. - I Corinthians 13:13

Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all of the wealth in his house for love, it would be utterly scorned. –Song of Solomon 8:7

2KnEL

Feelings fade, knowing last forever...
Feelings change, knowing stands fast…
Feelings betray you, knowing sustains you…
Feelings burn the fuel of love, knowing love creates it…
Feelings give you a ticket to the concert, knowing love creates the gift, inspires the artist to compose, stage and perform.

You want to know what love is…., you want to know it so well, that nothing can make me doubt it, oh nothing! Don’t trust in what you feel, go with what you know.

2KnEL – Too Know and Experience Lovee
Written by Ljn

Icy Blue Heart

Begin by loving again,
Begin by loving again;
when all that once mattered
Seems ruined and shattered,
then begin by loving again.

The Lord sometimes gives and sometimes takes away,
there’s happiness followed by pain;
but when hearts are breaking,
there’s joy for the taking
in learning to love once again...

Words by Theodore E. Morrow

Wishing everyone a very Happy Valentine’s Day!

Trish

Nick, thank you for loving me unconditionally…

I could not resist, including some of the photos from our recent snowfall. To those who love winter and the snow that comes with it! ENJOY!

Snow Shadows

Winter Feeding

Snow Peeking

Photos by Trish

Lens Vision

http://my.pho.to/lvm/s2/albums/lens_vision/

Love, Love, Love

Place me like a seal over your heart. Like a seal on your arm for love is as strong as death. Its jealousy unyielding as the grave it burns like blazing fire. Like a mighty flame many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. Song of Solomon 8:6-7

All of us desire to love and be loved on a deeper level too… one that brings fulfillment and joy in our relationships. Reaching this depth takes patience and courage. In any relationship, the truest love is unconditional. Unknown

Love is patient, Love is Kind, It does not envy, It does not boast, It is not proud. I Corinthians 13:4.

Too Slow for those who Wait, Too Swift for those who Fear, Too Long for those who Grieve, Too Short for those who Rejoice, But for those who Love, Time is eternity. Henry Van Dyke

“Whoever has a heart full of love always has something to give.” Pope John XIII

Have a Happy Valentine's Day!

Trish

Photos by Trish @ Through the Viewfinder

http://www.tljnicholas.com/

Photo Valentine's Day Cards @ Zazzle

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Love, Love, Love!

Happy Valentine's Day. . . Daddy

Begin by loving again

Begin by loving again,
Begin by loving again;
When all that once mattered
Seems ruined and shattered,
Then begin by loving again.

The Lord sometimes gives and sometimes takes away,
There's happiness followed by pain;
But when hearts are breaking,
There's joy for the taking
In learning to love once again...

Words by Theodore E. Morrow

Photo By: Trish At Through the Viewfinder

http://www.tljnicholas.com

Photo Title: Dark Circle of Love

The truth is that feeling what love is can never compare to knowing what love is...

Feelings fade, knowing last forever...
Feelings change, knowing stands fast…
Feelings betray you, knowing sustains you…
Feelings burn the fuel of love, knowing love creates it…
Feelings give you a ticket to the concert, knowing love creates the gift, inspires the artist to compose stage and perform.

You want to know what love is…., you want to know it so well, that nothing can make me doubt it, oh nothing! Don’t trust in what you feel, go with what you know.

Know and Experience….

2KnE…..

Written by Ljn

Photo By: Trish At Through the Viewfinder

http://www.tljnicholas.com

Photo Title: Kendall & Zonia