My Soul is happy today

I made that my status on facebook earlier. Then I decided it would make a good title for a blog.
Though, in a way I guess, this could be considered writing about Valentines Day. In a way it is connected.

I feel that Valentines Day is to show your loved ones that you love them, not just your other half.
We need to tell our loved ones more often how we feel. True, most of them know that we love them, but who doesn't like to hear it or be shown??

For my husband, kids, grandkids, son-in-law, daughters boyfriend, and her best friend, I got things I knew they would like or that they needed. Prices varied, but the love didn't!!

My mother-in-law lost her mother Feb. 5th., her best friend, Don, in 2009, her step-great-grandson in 2008. So I knew Valentines Day might lay heavy on her heart this year. So she was my main concern this time.

I don't know any other way to put it, God moved me, He moved me to make this a special time for HER. We didn't do anything grand. She's a diabetic, so she can't have most candy. We found her some sugar-free peppermint, got her a bag of sugar-free toffee (one of her favorites!!), a box of sugar-free candy...it was Valentines Day after all, a spongecake ( another favorite), and a card.

I took it all to her on my way home last night. She teared up on the card, loved everything else too. Of course telling me the whole time we shouldn't have done it! But, I am so glad we did!!

I got a call from her earlier today, after I got in from work. She told me her peppermint was in containers all over the house, so she could get a piece when she wanted. She had eaten 4 pieces of the toffee candy, (saving the boxed candy for when the other is all gone she said!), that the cake was the BEST she had EVER had!! So moist! Then to the card, that was the best to her. She said she has read it and read it all night and all day. That she so loved us letting her know how much she means to us. She knew, she said, that we love her. But at her age, 73, that she LOVES hearing it now. That she knows she won't have 73 more Valentine Days. That EVERYONE should tell the people they love that they love them! That we can NEVER hear it too many times. She went on and on.

So, my soul is happy today. I made someone I love happy, but the main thing is......I KNOW that God talked to my soul to get it done!!