Thursday, February 14, 2008

My Valentine

As I am writing this, it is almost one half hour before Valetine's Day is over. It was an uneventful day, except one thing.

I arrived home, tired and worn. The day was cold but did not chill.

This holiday from early on has not interested me, ever. In fact, I had to remind myself throughout the day to remember.

I pulled into my dark driveway, looking at the house, empty and alone. Glancing at the front door, I saw what looked like a notice propped up on the firewood I had on the slate porch and was too lazy to move into the house.

Damn. Was it some kind of notice of some kind? Eh, I would soon find out.

I collected my things from my vehicle and trudged in the semi-lit walk to the front door. I picked up the white paper that was oddly and prominently placed.

It dropped from my hand.

There was something attached to it; I was so annoyed that it fell, I barely glanced at it in the semi dark light.

As my eyes adjusted to the dimly lit area that only let me view things in black and white, I noticed the single, luscious long stemmed rose.

Who could have left it I wondered?

I opened the door, entered the foyer and headed into the house.

Putting my things down, I looked at the red velvety rose. The note was written to me in a handwriting I recognized.

"Dear Aunt Muse, would you be my first Valentine? Love, CD."

I started to weep. CD is my beautiful ten month old nephew, my most wonderful Valentine.




8 comments:

Glamourpuss said...

Aw, that is very sweet.

Puss

The Charming Hedonist said...

That makes me smile. What better valentine could a girl have?!

fatwonkkid said...

wow 10 month and the kid can read and write....you have quite a smart nephew

Gucci Muse said...

Puss-he is adorable-and he is half English as well :)

Charming-None better!

Fatwon-No, I have a loving brother who teaches loving ways to his son.

HopSkipJump said...

Wow. It's always nice to find a reason not to hate the Hallmark holiday. Sounds like he's going to have the ladies lining up in no time flat!

Gucci Muse said...

Well welcome, IF-we must have been visiting each other's blogs at the same time. When the ping of new mail sounded, I was still on your site.

CD already has the ladies and the men-when he is taken out, they can't keep their hands off of him! And the only thing he is interested in is, as his mother would say, his hand in his "gob".

ShadowFalcon said...

that is adorable!

10 months old and so charming

Gucci Muse said...

Shadow, a personality this one has, but my brother will keep him on the straight and narrow.