Anniversaries and a Dozen Roses

Yesterday I celebrated, along with my wife, our 3 year anniversary.  We had actually gotten something for our anniversary months ago, and decided that we would not do anything else.  But for me that was pretty hard.  So I took my wife out to dinner and brought her home a dozen roses.  She loved that!  Especially the roses.  As I gave her the flowers, I promptly discovered that this was the first time I had given her flowers since we had gotten married!  I actually did not believe her until I thought about it, and found she was right.  I felt bad about that.  What made it worse is that she loved it!  They say you learn something new everyday, and yesterday I learned that the little things do count.

So a word to the wise to any guy who has never gotten his wife flowers, or has not done it in a long time, bring some flowers home for your wife today!  But remember to do it out of the goodness of your heart, not for any other reason!
“What a lovely thing a rose is!… Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But the rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras.”

–Sir Arthur Conan Doyle–