I just have to share that I have the best men in my life. Really. 

I started out yesterday feeling very alone and awkward, as a significant portion of the world does on Valentine's Day. I went to buy flowers for my sisters and mom, and then took them to their house. When I got there...surprise! My dad had left two red roses for me on the dining room table. I NEVER get flowers! I think the last flowers I got were during a stay at the hospital....Anyway, my Dad just made my day. What a great guy. 

I went to work then and 6 hours later my grandpa showed up at the door with chocolates! I work ten miles away from him (I'm a nanny way out in the boondocks...) and he came all the way out there to bring me chocolate and love. 

The men in my life currently are making things very hard for the man I will spend the rest of my life with. He doesn't know it yet, but he'll never live up to my expectations. 

That being said, I think it's appropriate for the Valentine's season that I post something depressingly romantic. So I choose e.e. cummings. Because e.e. cummings is lovely. 

Here is one of my favorites.

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)

i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)