Slipping and Falling in Love- Part 3

Valentines Date Night, Friday February 17, 1989

All the right makings for romance gone wrong- completely wrong!  Then I slipped and fell!

I fell in love with a man who is not only strong and brave, but also full of grace. 

He helped me to my feet and we had a good laugh.  Holding hands we trekked up my parent’s driveway and kissed goodnight under the snowfall of our journey toward a lifetime of love.  And we have never forgotten or neglected to laugh at this night in our story. 

Romance comes unexpectedly and catches us off guard sometimes. 
When you literally slip 
on the ice, face ignited with embarrassment, 
your heart enflamed 
with love...Romance is there to pick you up and and smile his love into your soul. 

Romance sometimes takes hold of your hand and your heart and silently tells your insecure soul… 

“Happy Valentines Day.  You are loved.”

Slipping and Falling In Love-Our Story- part 1

Slipping and Falling in Love-Our Story- part 2

Slipping and Falling in Love- Part 2

Valentines Date Night, Friday February 17, 1989

Right in the moment of the romantic scene (cue the music) 

I slipped and fell flat on my backside!! 

Mike laughed a little more than I thought appropriate. 

I must have looked ridiculous! How could this happen? I was so embarrassed and flushed with heated neck and face as I realized that my heart had completely leaped with love in this picturesque scene gone wrong for a night of romance. 

The evening had started out so beautifully! Everything all planned by this new love of mine.  

Mike had planned the evening so well. Our very First Valentine’s Day as an officially dating couple, we had opted to double date with another couple. 

Dale G and his date were to meet us at the romantic Satterfield’s Restaurant that was nestled by the creek on a wooded lot near the highway between Kings Mountain and Shelby NC.  The setting was the most romantic thing you could imagine.

Fireplace.  Candle light.  Live Piano. Snow falling in gentle drifts by the waters edge. Me. Mike. And Dale. 

Dale’s date had canceled on him but he came anyway.  

He came anyway! 

By himself.  

For Valentines Dinner.  

With us!!  Yep.  

The scene for a romantic evening for three was kind of strange.  

I remember looking out the window at the snow falling enjoying my candle light steak dinner and thinking, 


“I have no one to talk to.” 

I’m not sure, but I know Mike and Dale talked sports and guy stuff.  Can I say that was an awkward moment?

Slipping and Falling In Love-Our Story- part 1
Slipping and Falling In Love-Our Story-part 3

Slipping and Falling in Love- Part 1

Valentines Date Night, Friday February 17, 1989
(Part 1)

I should have seen the handwriting on the wall.  

On our first Valentines Day together, guys who talk sports and guys stuff surrounded me.  How could I have been so blind? Love can be a slippery thing.

Snow had begun to fall late in the afternoon accumulating a recorded 10-18 inches of snowfall across the entire state of North Carolina over a two-day span. I was nervous that our date would be canceled.  

I was nervous to go on a date for Valentines Day.  Did he like me? Did he love me? Or not?  

I was uncertain and doubts clouded my mind and heart.  He was focused, determined and confident, however, that we would have a romantic First Valentines Date together.

I lived with my parents in rural Kings Mountain, NC and just getting to our driveway was a slippery adventure.  I worried the whole time we were out that he would not get me home-we may slide off the road and be stranded in the cold somewhere.

I don’t like to be cold. 

Convinced that my long gravel drive way would not be safe to navigate, we parked his car at my grandparents house at the bottom of the hill so he could walk me home in the moonlit snow after our date.

Picture the scene: The ice-cold stillness of the night air... filtered moonlight peeking through the clouds, snow falling in a swirl, gathering closer as a covering.   

Slipping and Falling In Love- Our Story- part 2
Slipping and Falling in Love- Our Story - part 3