Blog Every Day In May Challenge
{Today’s blog is going to be short and sweet after yesterday’s rant ;) }
Day 23, Thursday: Things you’ve learned that school won’t teach you
I’ve learned that poems don’t have to rhyme and boys don’t have to act macho in order to be strong.
Case in point:
PROOF that we do, for real, call each other Lou
Just in case you can’t read this, it says:
To my dearest sweet Lou,
How I love thee
You ARE my best friend
How I love sleeping in a twin bed
You ARE so warm and cuddly
I surely never want to leave
I love you so so so
You ARE the best Lou
Anyone can ever ask for
Enjoy your morning, love you so!
Lou!
*Yes, we do actually sleep in a twin bed. We’re cuddlers!*
Greg isn’t a super romancy guy. We never even went on a first date until after we were engaged. I can count with a peace sign how many times he’s gotten me flowers (um, that was my clever way of saying it’s happened maybe twice) and he would rather make me laugh than make me swoon.
I LOVE IT.
This poem is great for so many reasons. It doesn’t rhyme. He only left it for me to make me laugh. I used to have a saying that if any guy I once dated either got me a cheesy gift OR wrote me a poem/song, I would probably end the relationship. I guess I just can’t appreciate that stuff the way a girl should. There was one poem someone wrote me in high school that was so awful, I (naturally) told Greg about it as soon as we began to date. He’s been coming up with terrible poetry ever since.
Not that this was a bad one, but it did make me laugh when I woke up and saw it sitting next to my coffee mug.
Another thing I’ve learned that school never taught me:
Laughter trumps everything.
give him a piggy back ride
make pretty faces so he loves you
no pda in this pool. just laughter
What have you learned that school never taught you?
<3 Lou
Hey Lou Writes 
May 23, 2013 at 5:49 AM
Oh my word. I don’t like telling couples they are adorable…but there is no way around it right now. This cracked me up. And I really love that you both call each other Lou! Can we hear more about this twin bed? You guys really sleep on a twin bed?
May 23, 2013 at 6:31 AM
I think schools get so caught up in teaching classical literature that when it comes to poetry, it’s all about rhyming, rhythms, syllables, etc. It must be a sonnet or a haiku. I feel like schools do not teach you enough about real world situations. I was lucky enough to have a math teacher who, when we were learning fractions, percentages, etc, that he incorporated real life lessons like credit card interest, mortgages, etc. These days, schools just read out of the text books they buy instead of implementing the real world into their teaching. So this post really made me smile. I love the goofy pictures!