deep down in a hidden place in my heart, for The Artist to say this.

Wow. There’s a confession!

I’m not sure this will ever happen. Last go round when he asked me what was in something I had cooked, I said “love. all the best things are cooked with love”. I didn’t mean it as “I love you” I meant it just as I said it. I could see his reaction was discomfort. He vanished for a year after that dinner.

_{men are crazy.}1 week ago

It was like being hugged and told i love you. Yippee!

One if the best 43peeps sent me a very thoughtful gift of the book titked room with a view. I’m excited because it is really, really special when someone thinks of me and also because i have never read this book nor have i seen the movie ( which i think was highly acclaimed ).

It is an extraordinary gift when the gifter has thought about the giftee’s likings and comes up with with something so perfect and delightful.

(((((techkat)))))

I am so excited to end an aggravating day and begin what is surely to be a wonderful weekend!

xoxo 3 months ago

and said strongly, many times, he loves me. I believe him.

How nice is that? 4 months ago

no I love you’s but lots of hugging!

It was really great to see him. 4 months ago

after we devoted to two days of detective work, pavement pounding and such we tracked his biological father and shook and rattled until he surfaced.

My nephew was able to speak to him on the phone and was so, so happy. He hugged me and kissed my cheek and said “I love you! Thank you!”

_{I am not sure he knows… some times you catch “the big fish” and just don’t know its a pirhana.}5 months ago

9 months ago

to social security so we could see how his social security check would be reduced when he retires and starts getting his pension check.

By half. =/ Which, they say, is better than the usual two thirds. (Seriously?)

When I dropped him off at his mobile home as he got out of the car he said “I love you” I said “I love you too”. He smiled and we talked a brief moment further about our next retirement steps. As I drove away and waved in my mirror I watched him stand in the road and watch me drive away. I think I know he was thinking that someone had just said they loved him. He was thinking about how long it has been since he has heard that. And how this wasn’t the person he expected to be the person that would be the first person that would be the one that would say those words to him when he first noticed no one had said i love you to him and started watching for it years, and years ago. Like I did after Mom died. As I drove away, I thought about how nice it always is when someone says they love you. it doesn’t matter who it is. its so rarely said. at least to me. 13 months ago

my nephew hugged me tight and said I love you. And still held me tight for a long time.

This is exactly what I meant by this goal. =)

when someone truly loves you. 16 months ago

over the kitchen sink (!) She would laugh, as I explained I can see it when I am on the couch and the kitchen. So I see it more there than anywhere else.

She is dressed a bit elegantly to be in the kitchen, but I don’t think anyone would ever say my Mom didn’t “do her own thing”.

When I am able to sell this house and buy another, there will be a place for her. A better place. My grandmother hung this portrait of Mom in the back hall for years. When I was a child it was in our “off limits to children” living room.

I think my Mom was in her mid to late 20’s when this was painted.

Every time I look at it I know my Mom is here. Hugging me and saying she loves me.

Right now, this is a Very Good Thing. 18 months ago

when I pause to reflect on why this hasn’t been completed…........ after everything that ran through my mind, all I can say to sum it up is, gee, life is hard. sigh…........... 18 months ago

she says “I love you!”

How nice is that? 19 months ago

where my sbDaughter works thisevening she said “I love you” I said, “me too!”

I’m looking forward to our sleep over tomorrow night. 20 months ago