Year Round Admiration for Your Husband / Hidden Love Notes

 Thanks to Helen Rutrough in Virginia for her comment about the idea mentioned below! 

I've been meaning to tell you since last Valentine's Day that I followed one of your suggestions of making hearts and writing on them things about Gary that I admire and things that have meant a lot to us in our marriage.  I made 30 of them last year and laminated them so they would last and hung them around different places for him to find.  After a couple days he had found them all but he told me not to take them down that he wanted them left in place!  Well they're been in place for almost a year now!  Still hanging from his truck mirror, on his coffee mug, wrapped around a pair of socks, hanging in the laundry room, on our bedroom mirror, etc.  It was a big hit with him and there's no plans to remove them any time soon!  Thanks for all your creativity and for sharing it with us ladies!

HIDDEN LOVE NOTES FOR ANYTIME   to 

by Lois Breneman, © Revised 2009, Heart to Heart 

For Valentine's Day eight years ago when my husband and I were married for thirty-two years, I traced and cut out 32 red hearts, and wrote on each one a reason why I loved my husband, things I appreciated about him or wrote "remember when" memories of our dating years and 32 years as husband and wife.  After punching a hole in each heart and inserting ribbons, I tied the notes everywhere so he would find them throughout the evening and into the next day -- on his socks, toothbrush, toothpaste tube, to the stem of an apple in his lunch, to the doorknob, to his silverware, under his plate, around his glass at dinner, inside his napkin, to his coffee mug, to his pillow, in his jacket pocket, etc.   Later that evening I tied some to the steering wheel, his car keys, and tucked one in his lunch to find the next day. He was still finding red hearts the next day!  I did this again this Valentine's Day - with 40 hearts.

Examples for notes:
 
I first knew that I loved you when...

I remember our first date...

I remember just before you asked me to marry you - how I felt your heart beating so fast while holding hands that I took your pulse and it was 110 beats per minute!  Then, after you asked me to marry you, you took mine and it was 112!  Pitter patter!

If you don't want to go to the bother of hiding the hearts (though it's lots of fun!), you could tie each one to a stem in a silk bouquet of flowers.  Then you could display the flowers in your home as a sweet reminder of the love you share.

Two other variations of this idea: 

(1) Color copy an entire page of pictures of you and your husband from during your dating years and afterwards.  Crop the pictures and make a small scrapbook for your sweetie or simply glue them to card stock with cute captions. 

(2) Use color copied pictures to make a little romantic booklet with fun captions for him. 

Whatever you do, I'm sure he will love it!   Our husbands need our acceptance, admiration and adoration, no matter what day it is or how many years we've been married.

This quote is good, even after Valentine's Day.  Make every day a special day!

"Despite its commercial underpinnings, I think Valentine's Day is a great idea. ... It's never too late to put a little excitement into your relationship. Marriages must be nurtured, or they can whither like a plant without water."
— Dr. James Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family