i ♥ quotes.  i really do.  i think i get it from my mom, who always had a chalkboard visible somewhere in our home while i was growing up.  she wrote a new quote up nearly every week, from what i can remember.  the quotes ranged from the very philisophical to the silly, written by poets or politicians to celebrities or dr. suess.  always a variety.  always inspiring and thoughtful, and sometimes very entertaining.

and although my dad, sister and i LOVED to torment my poor mother by changing words within her chosen quotes or writing our own comments or quotes up next to her selection for the week – i won’t lie, usually this resulted in something innappropriate or harrassing of my mom – she continued to write her quotes, hoping to inspire us. 

well . . . she did.  at least with me.  i now have my own little chalkboard that i have displayed in our kitchen on a stand, and i write my own quotes and messages up there.  and now, it is my turn to be tormented.  i may have taken to writing and displaying my own quotes, but my husband has taken to changing my quotes, drawing on them and sometimes erasing them and writing his own.  mom, if you are reading this, then you were right!  payback has come my way!!!

however, my husband’s “creativity” has not stopped me and i continue to share little sayings and quotes on my chalkboard.  tonight, i changed our chalkboard to read “i love you today.”  it is my favorite quote, and it actually originates from my husband.  so perhaps there is a chance it will stay up on the chalkboard, untouched by him, for a few days!

my husband took to sometimes telling me “i love you today” while we were dating (rather than saying he loved me, and leaving it at that).  at first, i have to admit, i was a little offended.  what – you didn’t love me yesterday?!?  how about tomorrow?!?  only today?!?  but it grew on me when i began to realize that it was his way of telling me he loved me, in a way that i would listen and not just accept those words as part of a daily routine like “i love you”  sometimes turns into.   and those words, “i love you today,” quickly became my most favorite words to hear.  and still are. 

“i love you today” is a phrase we each ended up incoporating to our wedding vows to one another, without talking to each other about it beforehand or planning it.  it has become our quote.  and writing it up on my chalkboard this evening got me to wondering if anyone else has a favorite quote (famous or not).  do you?  and it also got me thinking that a quote or phrase or other saying that a couple has with each other, or that they are both particularly fond of, would be the perfect inspiration to which to center their wedding around.  what better way to personalize a celebration, than to center it around personal words that hold personal meaning?  not just incorporate it, like my husband and i did, but really design the wedding around the special words.   i realize that this is likely not a new concept or idea,  but the epiphany has me thinking for future weddings . . .

and thus, based on the inspirations gained from the quote by my husband and my mother’s chalkboard, i think  i’ll occasionally post  quotes that i like.  this will be a forum for my “chalk-blog!”

good night everyone, and honey, if you are reading this . . . i love you today. ♥