I was going to write about VD today, but I like this one better.

It’s Valentines Day.

I’m thinking of him today,
as I always will on this day.

He is so special to me.

I cherish…

The way it feels when he holds my hand.
The soft caress of his fingers on my cheek.
That special smell that is only his.

I love him in a way that I will never love anyone else.

When he sings to me my heart fills with joy.
Dancing with him is divine.

There’s something so intimate about sitting alone in the dark with him, his arms wrapped around me.

Every time he tells me he loves me, everything else is swept away.

I would do anything for him.

He is bound to me for eternity.

My son.

valentine

On this day, 3 years ago, I found out I was pregnant.

I will never receive a more profound, meaningful, or loved gift.

I hope you can all remember to find meaning and love, too, wherever it waits for you in your lives.

No matter what day it is.

37 comments


  • Lovely poem! And strikes close to home. I’m so terribly in love with my little guy.

    We’re not big on V Day, but today we’re just happy that hubs is home. Woke up at home, at a decent hour, and will sleep at home. It’s rare these days. Tomorrow it’s back to work but today it’s video games and movies and chinese food and most of all, being three. (3.5? At not-quite-6 weeks can I say the four of us?)

    Stassjas last blog post..Well then

    February 14, 2009
  • Awww, I my favorite post of today! I’m totally gonna have to steal idea for next V-Day :)

    I’m done reading posts for today, nothing can top this one. Now, I’m gonna go spend time with my kids thanks to you :)

    Janelles last blog post..Self Love Day 2009 (why I love me!)

    February 14, 2009
  • So beautiful and adorable.
    Absolutely perfect, Lotus.
    B, is going to treasure this when he gets older, as will you.
    (hugs)

    February 14, 2009
  • Awesome, awesome, awesome. :)

    And he looks like a little boy in that pic (rather than a baby).

    CUTE!

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    February 14, 2009
  • donna sperm

    so sad.. and typical of the infantilism which cripples america

    your son will not adore this as he gets older.. with any luck he’ll be rightly freaked out ..

    god forbid his friends should find out.. or his dad..

    but then again.. maybe you’ll have stunted his emotional perception of women so much by then that he’ll be passed caring… good luck with that

    February 14, 2009
    • @donna sperm,

      Clearly, you are an expert at healthy emotional well-being.

      Maybe you should go climb the Jungfrau. I hear it’s beautiful this time of year.

      Don’t accidentally fling yourself off the side of it, or anything.

      That would be so tragic.
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      February 14, 2009
    • @donna sperm,

      God forbid you ever have children and if you already have them they deserve better. Get a grip on your life and stay away from this blog. And my blog. And the blogs of everyone I know or so help me….

      I am a prison officer biotch. You never know who I know.

      :)

      Lotus Rules!

      Jennifers last blog post..Smiles

      February 14, 2009
    • @donna sperm,

      Too bad you can’t appreciate a mother’s profound love for her child. Any child would be filled with awe if they read their parent loves them so deeply. You’ve got to be kidding with your comment…

      And stunted his emotional perception of women? WTF? By having a mother that loves her son over-the-moon-and-back? Sorry, but my husband grew up with a mother who abused him and THAT is how you get a stunted emotional perception of women. Not by having a mother such as Lotus. Puh-leeze.

      Get a life….

      February 15, 2009
  • Awww, very sweet!

    (And? He looks so grown up in the picture. Such a little man face instead of a baby *sniff*)

    Ashlie- Mommycosms last blog post..Guest post: Top ten things I love about mommycosm

    February 14, 2009
  • Wow. Donna Sperm needs to, like…get some sperm. Or is that really patriarchal of me? BAER.

    I loved your homage to your wee man- and what an amazing picture of him. That little grin- he looks like a firecracker. Have a great day!

    Rock and Roll Mamas last blog post..Thoughts on Soccomm Panel

    February 14, 2009
  • I read this a half dozen times . . . looking for anything that could remotely offend anyone.

    I found nothing.

    I only found the absolute, all-consuming love that a mother has for her child.

    And I am CERTAIN that one day he will read this and with a tear in his eye he will tell you how grateful he is to have you as his mother.

    And then he’ll say, “I love you mama. You are my Valentine, too . . . ”

    *I have to say a special prayer for anyone who doesn’t get the absolute love and devotion in your words . . .

    LaskiGals last blog post..PSF: My Little Dude

    February 14, 2009
  • Beautiful Lotus.

    Isn’t it a wonderful thing that a mother needn’t justify the love she has for her children to anyone? Especially random hateful strangers on the internet. :D

    Honeybells last blog post..My Love Letter to You

    February 14, 2009
  • On the troller: Some people have no class. Some people have no social graces. Some people are just morons. I think that the troll fits all three.

    On the post: Beautiful, just beautiful!

    February 14, 2009
  • I think, perhaps, what donna sperm needs to climb is about 8 inches of schwantz – on the other hand – she might fall off.

    Maybe she has done and that’s what her problem is.

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    February 14, 2009
  • I have been following your blog for about a week now and just wanted to say how sweet I thought your post was today. I have 3 kids and can totally relate to the love a mom has for her babies…it’s just so overwhelming and wonderful.

    Happy Valentines

    Amandas last blog post..Valentines Day…

    February 14, 2009
  • Cynthia

    I have been following your blog for a short time and this post is just beautiful! I can relate to what you said about when he says ” I love you” and everything else being swept away, I feel the same way when my little guy says he loves me, it just melts my heart and makes me feel all is right in the world. Thank you for sharing this post with all of us and as for the lady in need of sperm stop the negative, it is so damn pointless. My Mom always said if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say anything at all. Maybe you should try that!!

    February 14, 2009
  • Wow, “Donna Sperm” is a DOUCHE. Except that’s kind of an insult to douches everywhere.

    Jenns last blog post..Dear MBTA

    February 14, 2009
  • I am having the most beautiful of days with my little men today too! Wait til you have grandbabies Lotus, just when you think you cannot possibly love another human being as much as your child, here they come! :) Savor every minute of your mini man now, it won’t be long until you are looking at one of his mini me’s. It is quite surreal but beautiful!
    Happy V-Day!!!!!!

    February 14, 2009
  • Apparently Donna had no Mama love and for that I am truly truly sad because everyone needs to feel like #1 to somebody in life, if not your Mama then whom? So is 2 too old to be made to feel so loved? What kind of man would he be if he didn’t have that kind of love? What would any of us be if we didn’t have someone to love us more than they did themselves?

    Sad, seriously, I am not being sarcastic.

    Special Ks last blog post..The Sweetest Thing

    February 14, 2009
  • That, Lotus, was beautiful. It was written in the language of motherhood and I totally get it. Completely. Big smoochies to you. (But I’m still not a lesbian.)

    Lynn (Walking With Scissors)s last blog post..Happy Hallmark Card Day!

    February 14, 2009
  • I love those little jeans on your boy. I always loved a cute pair of jeans better than anything. I visited my pregnant daughter today and my older daughter and her boyfriend for Valentine’s Day. My daughter was having some Braxton-Hicks contractions and went to the hospital last night to get checked. She was ok but they gave her a shot to stop the contractions as she is only 25 weeks or so. She might have been dehydrated. They gave her some fluid in her IV and sent her home after they tested her. No real contractions! Good. I totally understand the love of mother and children. Really not quite any other. We don’t appreciate it as much after we become adults but it never goes away.

    Junebugs last blog post..Sweetheart Smoothie

    February 14, 2009
  • Elaine

    I’m new to your blog and I just had to leave a comment telling you that your son is absolutely adorable.

    Congrats on finding unconditional love…

    Elaines last blog post..Watch out for The Fox

    February 14, 2009
  • That was absolutely beautiful. utterly.

    That troll. Ugh. WTF? I don’t get it.

    jennyonthespots last blog post..Happy Valentine’s Day. Really.

    February 15, 2009
  • Amazing post! That’ really the best gift you could receive for this day:)

    kompostelas last blog post..Weekly Winners, January 11-17

    February 15, 2009
  • love it.. :)

    Tazs last blog post..68 Weeks Old and 10 Weeks Old

    February 15, 2009
  • my heart just exploded

    flutters last blog post..Therapy notes: Well, that was blunt

    February 15, 2009
  • Them’s my daddy’s goats!
    We aren’t rednecks either, hell, we live in Alabama for Pete’s sake.
    We didn’t play in the sand pile with our sand shovel and fling the cat poop over our shoulder when we’d find it either. Nuh-uh.

    ‘cuz I’m the mommy, that’s whys last blog post..Migraine Hell

    February 15, 2009
  • that last comment posted on the wrong day, see “No damn redneck over here”
    My Valentine’s post is about my little man too.

    ‘cuz I’m the mommy, that’s whys last blog post..Migraine Hell

    February 15, 2009
  • Oh such a sweet post for your little guy. I totally swoon when my kid tells me he loves me – MELTING I tell you!

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    February 15, 2009
  • LURVE this post :)

    February 15, 2009
  • Zandor

    That was a great post.

    Zandors last blog post..I might be going to Terre Haute next weekend!

    February 15, 2009
  • Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, post.

    Shame about the ugly troll.

    Barbaras last blog post..46/365 – Boing

    February 15, 2009
  • Tranny Head

    I like this one, too … but I still want to see your VD post. Venereal Disease is a real biotch.

    Tranny Heads last blog post..A Valentine’s Day Memory from Middle School

    February 15, 2009
  • Happy birthday to your handsome boy!! I hope that you and he have a wonderful next year together =)

    Sarahs last blog post..Sorry, Hank.

    February 16, 2009
  • I’m soooo jealous of you right now! :) My husband and I have decided to start trying for a little one this year and I can’t wait!! Hopefully I will have a handsome little fella like you! :) Thanks for sharing!

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    February 17, 2009
  • amy

    i once wrote a poem about the curve of my daughter’s back – i must be a lesbian/pedophile.

    February 18, 2009
  • Is it wrong that I was waiting for the “then you treat me like a little shit, and our magical moment is over” part?

    bwahahaa

    Lovely, Loter. XOXO
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    February 17, 2010

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