An Easy and Happy Valentine’s Day

When I was a child, I loved Valentine’s Day. No, not really just Valentine’s Day. I loved ALL the holidays. I never liked those questions where people ask you which is your favorite. As a kid people often ask you your favorite things.

“What’s your favorite color?”

“Favorite holiday?”

“Favorite food?”

I have the same problem with all three of these questions, which no one asks you when you’re an adult, until you have children. Then your children ask you these questions. Of course, they add on things like:

“What’s your favorite animal?”

“Favorite dinosaur? Second favorite? Third favorite?”

I must be the most boring person ever, because I never did know how to answer these questions. My favorite book is Anne of Green Gables, and my favorite boy is Alan, so I married him. All the colors are beautiful, food is delicious, all the food, and holidays? I sort of live for holidays these days.

I think things like, “What holiday is next that I need a wreath for?”

“Who is the next person I have to buy a present? Who’s birthday is next?”

“Wait. Are we close to Christmas? What season is it even?”

So do I like Valentine’s Day? Yes, I’ve written about this before. I do not even care if the holiday was created by greeting card companies. The people who complain about this holiday are usually just men who are too cheap to buy flowers and chocolates. It is a day to exchange chocolate, go out to eat, and tell people you love them. What’s not to love?

Well, yes, there’s the whole single person thing, but when I was single I do not remember Valentine’s Day bothering me. I mean my mom still bought me those little boxes of conversations hearts, so really I was happy.

In school, we always decorated our little white bag with construction paper hearts, exchanged store-bought paper Valentines, and ate cupcakes and drank fruit punch. Wahooo! Happy Valentine’s Day to us!!!

We don’t do anything elaborate for this holiday. We exchange pleasantries in the form of Russell Stover’s, and we order take out food because we hate crowds. Some years I cook something everyone likes and make strawberry cake. It’s all very simple and exciting.

I do have a couple of ideas for what I want to do this year. This has been quite a challenging school year, and we need pick-me-ups in the form of holidays on the regular. I made a video earlier today to talk about Valentine’s Day as well as the books I have been reading lately. Of course, it froze on a less-than flattering photo, so mash play, and you won’t have to keep seeing my face looking all rough.

The Date Night Coupon Printable

I mentioned these in the video, but I got cut off. You see, I have this timer that lets me know I have spent too much time on Facebook, and it always kicks on at the most inopportune of times, like in the middle of filming. Click here to print these date night coupons for yourself. I noticed you have to scroll down to the very bottom of the blog post to print the coupons, and you can choose pre-printed ones or ones that say “Date Night” but then you fill in whatever you want the date to be.

I actually got that whole date night idea from the TheMessyBunMommie.com, if you would like to check out her blog.

Basically, my plan is to make this upcoming Valentine’s weekend the best I can make it. Moving has been such a hard transition. I can’t even explain to you how hard uprooting one’s world over and over again is, and we need all the holidays we can get. This year’s will actually be extra special because Daniel and John David are getting baptized this week.

Whatever year I’m in, that year is my favorite, so I’m calling this year my best one, and I am determined it will be. Much love to all of you! Go paint things pink and eat chocolate.

“But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.”

Jesus in Luke 6:35

I’m linking up with Finish the Sentence Friday. “Favorite or Worst Valentine’s Days”