Friday, February 14, 2014

Valentine's Day

  This is the first year I am not sharing Valentine's Day as a teacher with a class.  I always made a heart-shaped cake using a square and a circle, a bit of a geometry lesson.  I usually asked the students to write a five paragraph GED essay about their ideal Valentine with interesting results.

I've been purging old journals and that is a topic for another blog.  I often recorded the words on cards Jim gave me or the meal I made for the day, so it must be important to me even if I think I am not a romantic and am somewhat cynical about a commercially inspired holiday.

Tonight we are having a spaghetti dinner, one of Jim's favorite meals.  I'll buy a better than our usual $6.99 bottle of wine and make some beer bread.  If I am ambitious, I'll make banket--another favorite for Jim.  I doubt we'll exchange cards.  We might exchange written messages.  I already let Jim  know that I bought him a gift and that means the pressure is on him!  My gift is an impulsive one I bought at the Jockey outlet store yesterday--I could add a photo.  I doubt Jim will pose for it!

Jim is my most faithful blog reader--maybe because he is the only one whose email I added to the site.  So...Happy Valentine's Day, Jim.  I love you!

How do you celebrate Valentine's Day?  Or do you prefer ignoring it?  (My daughter often ends her blogs with a question.  Is that is how I will get some comments?)


2 comments:

  1. We have never gone out for Valentine's Day, but always stay home and make dinner together. We're still doing that this time around, but this year Eric surprised me with a sushi lunch date...babysitting included! It was so sweet and thoughtful of him. Three cheers for Eric!

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  2. Just catching up a little on your blogs...Cute post. :)
    We had the MOST relaxing Valentine's Day this year, as the girls were at Winter Blast with the youth group. Had dinner out at Bonefish. Tom gave me a home-made (off his computer) card with a nice hand-written note (a tradition for us), and a gift certifiate for a massage (nice!). I gave him three of our favorites: coffee, chocolates, and a bottle of red wine (called "Monogamy"...it was a very pretty label). The next morning...heart shaped pancakes and chocolate covered strawberries for breakfast, and later that day we rented a wonderful movie..."About Time." We always celebrate, and never ignore Valentine's day, anniversaries and birthdays.
    So the pressure was on Jim? What did he do for you?

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