Feeling the Love...

Yesterday, Alan got this Facebook message from one of our dear friends:

Can you see the google doodle for Valentine's Day? It could totally be associated with how you and Erin first got together, well except for that whole bowling thing, but you can totally extrapolate and it's the same thing! Happy heart day to you and Erin Moschetti too! :)

 So of course we both dutifully went to check out the doodle, which was absolutely darling. (If you haven't seen it yet you should.  Click here. Even the Washington Post loved it.)

 But to be honest, when I was finished watching it I couldn't help but wonder what it had to do with our story. So I challenged Alan to figure it out.  To which he responded "Am I the girl in this video?"  

Maybe.  Because it was I who pursued Alan.  And it was Alan who cluelessly rebuffed me again and again.  But even that... I pursued him flirtatiously.  Not so much with gifts.  

Maybe it has to do with the fact that they're little kids?  Cus we both work with children, and people always associate child like things with us?  Maybe it's my mad jump-roping prowess? Maybe she knows that we both adore Norah Jones, and that she does a cover of this song? Maybe cus I love paper airplanes and magic, and cus Alan would look awesome in a dinosaur sweatshirt?  She couldn't have been referring to my "Cold Cold Heart." Right?

What ever it is that reminded you of us, Sandra, we're missing it.  Do tell.

But then I started thinking about it differently. Maybe it's the sweet, genuine, and palpable love that the boy and girl feel.  Maybe we exude that?  I decided that regardless of the plot, a romance between two people that shines so brightly (or oozes so sappily) that friends and family are reminded of them while witnessing true love between strangers, is the kind of romance I would be proud to share with my husband. High-five, Alan.

 So thank you, Sandra.  Maybe I don't want to know what it was about that cute little doodle that reminded you of us.  I'm happy about it either way. 

Also, thank you Google, for including a variety of couples in your homage to love. Perfect.