Does anyone have a memorable Valentines Day? I know all of you are great lovers, but surely some on incident stands out from the others? Come on, fess up! ;D ;D :-* :-*
1985 the year my 5 year old daughter presented me with a "vase of flowers" the vase was an old beer can she had picked up on her way home from school and wrapped in construction paper that had red and green hearts crayoned all over it then she had poked weeds from the roadside into the hole. I still have the vase :D but the "flowers" died a long time ago :'(
Every Valentine's when they come out with the beautiful heart shaped boxes of chocolate, I think of my Grandfather, John Turner. Every year until he passed in 1961, he would send me a beautiful box of chocolates for Valentines Day. I don't buy them for myself, I don't need the calories :laugh: But I always stop and look at them.
Happy Valentine's Day to all my forum family members. Are you all doing anything special?
We were, until a cold wet snow storm developed overnight.
One fellow got stuck going downhill in front of our house. Supposed to get up to 6 inches in the area and the foothills to the west are getting up to a foot.
Now that sounds like a great time to get out the candles, cook some hotdogs and open a bottle of wine or some such! Sometimes romantic is best at home! Happy Valentines Day to all!
How about fillet mignon on the grill, homemade crab cakes, red skin potatoes and Caesar salad. We just finished and it was s-o-o-o good. ;D
Yummm! Diane, that sounds so goood! I remember one special Valentines day when I was in sixth grade. We had a party at school and the main attraction of course was the fancy home decorated cardboard box that one of the girls and her mom had decorated with frilled crepe paper, lace doilys, and construction paper hearts. I received a great number of unsigned valentines! I was mystified and sneaked a look around the room behind me. One boy whom I hadn't had a thought about before just turned beet red. So I knew it was he who had sent all those cards! He did a couple of other sweet things as we were growing up, but then his family moved away. That move thwarted what may have been a great love affair, but now is just a sweet memory! I wonder if he continued in that gallant romantic fashion and impressed the woman who eventually became his wife. That is one of the mysteries of life, I hope I never find out the answer!
And Jim and I were both sick with the flu/cold bug all day. :(
I basically didn't get up until about 3 this afternoon.
He got up about 11, then went back down aboaut 4.
We've been married 35 years and this is the first time neither one of us did cards, candy, presents, flowers.
Nothing. Nada. :'(
But neither of us cared, either. :D
It's so sad it's funny.
Only neither of us wanted to laugh because our bodies hurt so much from all the coughing.
Actually, we were both comfortable with the day.
We're valentines all year 'round anyhow. :-*
Aw, I'm sorry you're both sick. But that's a good thing about a long marriage. It doesn't matter. You can comfort each other and that's enough valentine.
this is the day after, but there is a tradition at my house I want to pass on. Each Valentine's day, since my oldest was 2 yrs. old (and this year she will be 49 yrs. old) our three girls have recieved a valentine box of candy. These are the heart boxes about 7 or 8" across and in the begining cost 29 or 39 cents. This year they cost $3.99 (Russell Stovers) and two of them I mailed and the postage was $4.90 each. Something wrong with this picture? :-\ I continue to do this because of what one of them said during on particularly trying year. "Mom, there's not a lot in this world you can really depend on except the Valentine box of chocolates" and I have never forgotten that. Yesterday this daughter told me her box of chocolates meant more than anything in the world to her. It means "love" and she is exactly right. Therefore, I shall continue this tradition as long as I am able, no matter what the cost of the chocolates. The reason they are bought is priceless.
Good girl, Flo. If these traditions mean so much to the children, it is good to keep them going. I hope they have a tradition with their children. Family doesn't seem to matter much anymore with the younger ones. This might be the little thing that keeps them on the right side.
Flo, that was a beautiful Valentine letter. Family traditions are so very important.
And Wilma, family life for the younger ones, comes only from the love given and family traditions taught by the "Older ones".
The loving home and time as a family spent at the dining room table teach a lot.
My memories are of MAKING the valentines boxes.
I went to school in Pittsburg Kansas from kindergarten to 4th grade. Then we moved back to Howard.
Back then, we didn't make boxes or sacks at school. You made them at home and brought then the next day to school.
Mama would get all the stuff that we needed each year and each year she and I would sit down and decide on what we were going to make. I loved this time because we would do it together. ( or I thought so.. but now I see that it took a lot more than a 6 yr old back then could do :) ) We would decide what my box was going to be. One year it was a huge house with windows and doors and a chimney. Covered in white tissue and we would cut all the red and white lace hearts out and put them all over it.. Then the slit in the side of the roof and I had the greatest Valentine box ever! One year we made a mailbox, One year we made a square car ( out of a shoebox) with the cardboard wheels etc. These were wonderful memories and even though it took lots of time and effort on her part, she always made it fun and let me feel like I did it.
Then I would get all my valentines ( picking each one carefully for each person) ready for my classmates and friends. I remember that there was this one boy I didn't like at all and I didn't want to give him a valentine, but mama told me I had to give everyone one, and I couldn't leave anyone out. So I did and he gave me one that said "I love you" and it just grossed me out so bad! hahaha ;D
Then when I would get home that day from school, we would sit down and together we would go through each and every valentine and read them all. She always made a big ta-do about them. :D
She passed this on to me and I did it with both my boys when they were little and in the first years of school. Hopefully they enjoyed it as much as I did.
Thanks Mama.. it's just another one of the million times you came through for me. People have always told me I am a "natural" mother and if I am.. it is mostly because of you. You were a wonderful teacher.
I love you.
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Beautiful words and memories. Thanks for sharing them.
My Mama helped me make Valentine boxes too... so it has been passed down many generations, because I remember she told me that her Mother did the same thing.
I had wonderful daughters to make memories with.