Leave my partner a love note every single day for a year

Am just testing this for the first time i will write a more in dept later after the test

That’s why I have never started again, after my first attempt. It seems overwhelming. Maybe I will add a different one, “Leave my partner a love note every day for a week” or “every day for a month.” And at the end of the stated time I can choose to continue or not. But shooting for a year right at the beginning seems like setting myself up for failure.

I have missed making a love note for several days now. I don’t know what happened last weekend. I haven’t decided whether to try for, say, 365 non-consecutive days… or to start over and try for a year starting at some specific date. I think I’d need to make the goal a bit more forgiving for it to be doable. Perhaps the “every single day” could be like birth control pills are every single day (but if you miss one you take two the next day, and if you miss two you take two for the next two days, and if you miss three you’re off the program and have to start over).

Although I haven’t decided what to do with this goal, I am making a love note right now, with some lovely photos of what was happening in the gardens I walked past on the way home from work today.

Yesterday he said he liked it, but it made him feel a little guilty. I need to make sure he understands that this is an unconditional gift from me, and I don’t expect anything in return.

He seems most touched by the most personal and authentic ones (especially the ones with pictures of me/us on them), and less by the especially stylish or cute examples of love-note artistry.

Today was a really long day, and I almost forgot again. Then I checked 43Things, and there was a cheer for this goal, which reminded me to do a note before bed. Whew, that was close!

7 days down, 358 to go.

He said, “you don’t have to do that, you know.” (My baby needs a little help with receiving. I’ll give him some more practice.)

3 days down, 362 to go.

I started this July 3. I didn’t make a big proclamation to him that that’s what I’m going to do. I’ll just let him notice the pattern, over time.

I might need to work ahead a little to give myself a better chance of success, because I already almost forgot about it (and this only on day 2)! I was about to go to bed when I remembered, and stayed up late to make something.

So I never run out when it’s time to make a note.

Not quite a year’s worth, but it’s a start. I like the idea of most of them being on the same size/kind of paper, so they will all look cool together, on the wall or wherever.

I look at it as a challenge to my creativity. Maybe some will be all words, and some will be little sketches or collages. I want to allow my lover to become my muse and my perfect audience, to make beautiful things just to see him smile. Perhaps I’ll start on our anniversary, the 4th of July.