Valentines' Day

[sixdogsmom]

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!   

[MarineMom]

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 but the "flowers" died a long time ago

[Roma Jean Turner]

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   But I always stop and look at them.

[Diane Amberg]

Happy Valentine's Day to all my forum family members. Are you all doing anything special?

[W. Gray]

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.

[sixdogsmom]

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!

[Diane Amberg]

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. 

[sixdogsmom]

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!

[Mom70x7]

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. 
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.   

[Diane Amberg]

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.