Love Notes | Janetti Spaghetti

I was dusting the bookshelves on the weekend, when I happened across the scrapbook of all our old love notes.

Only too happy to be distracted from the housework for a while, I sat down to browse through the mementoes from the early days of our relationship more than 30 years ago.

one of our first photos together taken when I was a bridesmaid — Bridesmaid at my sister’s wedding, end of 1987

It seems I knew my Bear so well even back then, and that he had a sentimental streak a mile wide! (Example: he has kept the dress I wore on our first date. Yes, really!).

While I presented him the scrapbook as a gift for Valentine’s Day, it was actually the husbear who kept all these treasures, and then stuck them into the pages.

lunch in the botanical gardens — We often spent our lunch break together in the City Botanic Gardens

Inside I found:

note cards from the flowers he sent me;
a handful of photos;
old Valentines cards;
the letter my Bear wrote when he realised that I was indeed ‘the one’, and that he couldn’t live without me;
a postcard he sent me when he went to north Queensland to visit family;
the first birthday card he gave me after we were married;
bus tickets;
quite a few long and rambling letters that I wrote to him;
and even a crossword he made just for me, about some of our favourite things.

Yes, there were a couple of those old love notes that almost made me gag, but on the whole I was pleasantly surprised.

Some random thoughts from my little walk down memory lane:

How young (and skinny!) do we look?!
We loved to talk and talk and talk, sharing everything in our hearts and minds – something we still do to this day.
I really really hated the brief time I spent as a teacher!
Our handwriting is still the same even after three decades.
While my Bear was always a bit of a hottie, I reckon he’s even more handsome today.
We thought we had something good way back then (and we did) – but that’s nothing compared to now!