Speaker 1: Hey, it's Delilah. Thank you for stopping by. I have
Speaker 1: put together some of my favorite radio moments here to
Speaker 1: share with you on our daily podcast through on this
Speaker 1: Valentine's Think of everybody that you love. All the love
Speaker 1: in your life, mom or dad, best friends, sisters, brothers, kids,
Speaker 1: whoever enriches your life through their love, think about them
Speaker 1: this Valentine's Day. Aaron, thank you for calling. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the Delilah Show. Who is your Valentine?
Speaker 2: Oh, Delilah, I'm so excited to get to talk to you.
Speaker 2: My Valentine. Are my four children, my four little ones
Speaker 2: that I do everything for. I am seven years ago,
Speaker 2: you know, separated from my husband, been divorced now for
Speaker 2: four years. And the only thing I wanted really just
Speaker 2: to be a wife, just to be married, and that
Speaker 2: really hasn't happened, and I don't see it happening anytime
Speaker 2: in the near future. And so the past couple of
Speaker 2: weeks it's really been laid upon my heart that you know,
Speaker 2: I think I'm just gonna embrace being a mom and
Speaker 2: embrace you know, making a go at it by myself
Speaker 2: and enjoy having these children that I have and enjoy
Speaker 2: raising them. I wanted to tell you too. I pull
Speaker 2: a lot of strength from you, kind of your journey
Speaker 2: through love and just becoming a strong woman and just
Speaker 2: you know, showing your kids that showing them how important
Speaker 2: that is.
Speaker 1: I can remember, like it was yesterday. I was driving
Speaker 1: home one night after I had been on the air
Speaker 1: and taking call after call after call after call from
Speaker 1: people who were so in love and so happy and
Speaker 1: so in love, and I was just like, ahh k,
Speaker 1: I hear one worse stupid and happy person, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: just throw up. But of course on the air, I
Speaker 1: had to be so nice. And I was in the
Speaker 1: car and I was driving home and I just started
Speaker 1: crying and I cried out to God and I said,
Speaker 1: I don't understand it. I don't understand. And he said,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute. Let's
Speaker 1: just think about that child and sleep in the backseat
Speaker 1: of your car that you love more than life. Let's
Speaker 1: just stop for a minute and think about the blessing
Speaker 1: I have given you instead of complaining about what I
Speaker 1: have not given you.
Speaker 2: Exactly, Nack. He was focused on being a mom, and
Speaker 2: you know, put on my effort and energy into that.
Speaker 2: And I think that I'm really blessed to be able
Speaker 2: to do that. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. Anie, Hi, Patricia, thank you for calling
Speaker 1: the Delilah Show.
Speaker 3: I Love Love.
Speaker 1: I heard you had a great story to share with us.
Speaker 4: Well, it was Christmas Eve and we were on the
Speaker 4: way to my aunt Debbie's house for Christmas with my family,
Speaker 4: and we needed to stop at Kroger for a couple
Speaker 4: of things. And my boyfriend said, go away, because I
Speaker 4: need to buy you a couple of things for Christmas.
Speaker 4: And I said, okay, you obviously don't want me to
Speaker 4: see what you're getting. I'm going to walk away, and
Speaker 4: he stayed towards the front of the store. Well, I
Speaker 4: walked over towards the bakery, and I was looking at
Speaker 4: pies and whatnot to take to the party, and I
Speaker 4: heard over the intercom the manager, you know how they
Speaker 4: come on the intercom and attention Kroger shoppers, blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: Well I just kind of dismissed it until I heard
Speaker 4: my boyfriend's voice say, Patricia, and then I was all
Speaker 4: here and he said, will be beautiful redheaded woman in
Speaker 4: the store, please pay attention. I want you to know
Speaker 4: that I love you very much, and will you marry me?
Speaker 4: Please meet me at register three. And I was accid,
Speaker 4: completely utterly caught off guard. So I walk towards the
Speaker 4: front of the store and I'm beat red. I know,
Speaker 4: I can just feel it. And there was just a
Speaker 4: crowd of people around, and of course I go up
Speaker 4: to the front at register three and he's standing there
Speaker 4: with a big bouquet of flowers and a ring. This
Speaker 4: past Christmas Eve and we decided Valentine's Day would be
Speaker 4: a great anniversary.
Speaker 5: Happy Valentine's Day to you, Hi, Cathy.
Speaker 6: Hi Delaida. It's such a pleasure to be able to
Speaker 6: talk to you, tell.
Speaker 1: Me your story.
Speaker 6: I've sent some notes to my my daughter's lunch every
Speaker 6: once in a while because she likes it when I'm
Speaker 6: there so to say with her. And for Valentine's Day,
Speaker 6: I wanted to do something special for it, to let
Speaker 6: her know that she's loved, you know, And so I
Speaker 6: I everything that I could make red. I made red,
Speaker 6: I made apple sauce, red, I made the bread red,
Speaker 6: and she had peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I cut
Speaker 6: it in the shape of a heart and hugs and kisses.
Speaker 6: Because we have cookie cutouts, and she had.
Speaker 1: No, wait a second, backup, how old is your daughter?
Speaker 6: Well, now she's she'll be twelve in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 6: And at the time she was she was ten at
Speaker 6: the time, okay, And she's a really good kid. And
Speaker 6: she's a special kid because I never thought i'd be
Speaker 6: able to have any children, and fortunately I was blessed
Speaker 6: and I was able to have her. And she really
Speaker 6: is such a special miracle to our lives. So I
Speaker 6: always make her feel that way too. So for Valentine's Day,
Speaker 6: she was real excited about, you know, the party at school,
Speaker 6: and she said that she had had a good day.
Speaker 6: She said, but when she opened up her lunch box,
Speaker 6: I had stickers all inside her lunch box, you know,
Speaker 6: the little heart stickers that had little things on them
Speaker 6: and whatnot. And she opened up her lunch box and
Speaker 6: she had her heart shaped sandwich, and she had her
Speaker 6: heart shaped cookies, and then I were a little note
Speaker 6: in there. Everything was in heart shapes and red. And
Speaker 6: she came home and she said, Mom, she said, you're crazy.
Speaker 6: She's a really neat kid. And it's a lot of
Speaker 6: fun making her feel special, and because she makes us
Speaker 6: feel really special.
Speaker 1: Hi, Michelle, how are you tonight?
Speaker 3: I'm just fine.
Speaker 1: Tell me who's on your heart?
Speaker 4: My mom?
Speaker 1: Your mom? We're celebrating Valentine's Week and mom is on
Speaker 1: your heart?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Why the story that kind of I remember it
Speaker 3: all the time, but it really comes to mind around
Speaker 3: Valentine's Day. About Oh, it had to be about twenty
Speaker 3: years ago. I was working in an office full of
Speaker 3: women and they were all either married, dating someone seriously,
Speaker 3: or whatnot. And they were all talking about the flowers
Speaker 3: they were going to receive or the big plans they
Speaker 3: had for Valentine's Day. And I was having a little
Speaker 3: pity party because I didn't have anybody and thought I
Speaker 3: was going to be all forever. And you know, my
Speaker 3: mom is my best friend, so I was kind of
Speaker 3: whining to her and telling her, you know, my sad story.
Speaker 3: And Valentine's Day came and I was the first one
Speaker 3: in the office and I was kind of dreading it
Speaker 3: because I wasn't going to get anything. And the first
Speaker 3: delivery of the day, the florists, came around the corner
Speaker 3: and I said, oh, who's the lucky lady? And he
Speaker 3: said my name and I said, are you sure? And
Speaker 3: he said yeah, and he handed me the flowers and
Speaker 3: when I looked at the card, they were from my
Speaker 3: mom and dad. My mom had, you know, called and
Speaker 3: ordered me flowers and you know, wrote a real loving card,
Speaker 3: you know that said you'll You'll always be loved. And
Speaker 3: they were just the most beautiful roses I've ever seen
Speaker 3: before or since then. And it just it meant so
Speaker 3: much to me for her to do that. She's a
Speaker 3: great lady, and stuff like that just kind of brings
Speaker 3: it to mine. When you're one of six, It's like,
Speaker 3: those are the things that really stand out when you
Speaker 3: know she can pick you and do something like that
Speaker 3: when there's so much on her plate.
Speaker 1: Well, I have to be honest with you. I know
Speaker 1: most people think of Valentine's Day as sweet Heart's Day
Speaker 1: and romance and kisses. But because my birthday is the
Speaker 1: following day, my mother always celebrated my birthday on Valentine's
Speaker 1: So for me, Valentine's has always been about family, about
Speaker 1: my mom, about my brothers and sisters, about my best
Speaker 1: friends at school, and making those goofy little Valentine's hearts.
Speaker 1: It was never about, you know, the romance and the
Speaker 1: passion and all that stuff. It was always about people that.
Speaker 3: You love, like your mama exactly.
Speaker 1: I so hope you have enjoyed these radio moments as
Speaker 1: much as I enjoy bringing them to you. I'll share
Speaker 1: more with you each weekday on eight, It's Delilah