I am Co-Hosting a Par-tay!! & Ain't LUV Grand?

Now before I get to the mushy stuff - I am thrilled

to say I am co-hosting a Linky "Par-tay"

beginning tomorrow to celebrate

Jaime Lyn's 1 year Blogiversary over at

Crafty, Scrappy, Happy!

Please be sure to come back tomorrow and

join us for a party-extraordinaire!

Now onto LUV:

I feel like every day is Valentine's Day - even the not so

perfect ones.  I have been blessed with finding my soulmate

and every day I am grateful for his love.

I remember the first giddy moment of falling in love with

him - he sent me a text while I was away for a weekend

just after we first met.  It was a long, multi-part text of one of

the most famous poems by Gaius Valerius Catallus.

Catallus 5 was written in 65 BC (proving love is a constant). 

Here is  just a portion translated:

"Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred.

Then, another thousand, and a second hundred.

Then, yet another thousand, and a hundred.

Then, when we have counted up many thousands,

Let us shake the abacus, so that no one may know the number,

And become jealous when they see

How many kisses we have shared."

The romantic guy sent it to me in Latin (I'll admit I had

to google it for the translation and then was all aflutter!)

“Da mi basia mille, deinde centum, dein mille altera,

 dein secunda centum, deinde usque altera mille,

 deinde centum”

Yup, he had me at "da".....*giggle*

So as we celebrate our 6th Valentine's Day together

 I offer him back this:

"Tutto a te mi Guida"

Ain't love grand? (Now go google it!)