Valentine's Day

[lizziej]

My husband calls it a force day of romance, and it's so true! LOL And everything is so much more expensive just because of the day. I usually get a box of chocolates and I give chocolate to my hubby and my son, and that's about it. So happy I don't have to worry about getting Valentines to send to school.

 

[LeeAndra]

I love holidays & my husband hates holidays so the kids and I celebrate and he sits around being a Grinch.

The kids got Xbox games as their VDay gifts this year. My mom also bought them a big bag of candy (each!) after school yesterday.

We have Family Dinner on Thursdays so we all ate together and then my mom & son had made frosted brownies with sprinkles that they cut into heart shapes. We bought mini-boxes of candy to give everyone, my mom made homemade cards for my sister & me, and my dad gave my sister, my mom, & me bouquets of four roses (to represent the three of us + him).

It was a good day.

 

[YepBrook]

Growing up, my dad always made a big deal of Valentine's Day. We would always get heart shaped boxes of chocolate and flowers from him. We'd eat a special dinner as a family, or sometimes my parents would go out on a date. Imagine my surprise when I married an anti-Valentine'sDay-er! My husband doesn't buy into it... and although we've been married for 16 years I still haven't stopped expecting something from him. Anything... a card, a box of chocolates? Something. It doesn't have to be big. I wish I could stop caring, but it *feels* important to me because my entire childhood it was. Heck, even to this day my dad sends me flowers and a card. Poor hubby! He was probably never going to live up to dad's extreme v-day legacy.