Valentines Day....is it more of market? Can't any day truly be Valentines Day!?

Today is Valentines Day and I am excited for my kids....class parties, treats, cards, clothing....its a BIG market out there!! As a young kid, I can recall receiving Valentines and feeling special because THAT boy gave ME a Valentine...and he also gave the rest of the class a Valentine, but that doesn't matter, I still got ONE from him!! As we get older...and start to have relationships, we get bummed when we don't have a Valentine...and it seems that everyone else is celebrating that special day but me!

Now as I am older and wiser(lol) I realize that I can make any day Valentines Day....and my husband and I do...we pick a night and when the kids go down, we have a nice dinner, or cuddle and watch a movie together. He does bring me flowers occasionally,  and I do make him special desserts....Chocolate Triffle or something with Rhubarb. We don't need this exact day to show our love and respect to each other. When we first got together, this DAY was marred by various incidents...sickness, working and then five years ago today my Grandmother died...so Valentines Day for me isn't truly Valentines Day.....

Its more of the BIG companies making it important and making a FAST buck, think of it, it has become quite commercialized! (And sometimes I have fallen for those commercials, especially the jewellery store commercials...what girl wouldn't??)Strawberries...go up in price. Flowers go WAY up in price. Then there is CHOCOLATE...everywhere and some of it expensive. Pink and red teddy bears flow through the store shelves.....just this past weekend, I saw a HUGE RED HEART pillow for $40!! But I am sure that someone will buy it!  Restaurants make dinner deals...and then there is the Card companies....don't get me wrong, I do partake in the card business, however one year I made a HOMEMADE card and Matt still has it.

I've already told Matt..NO flowers...they're nice and all...but right now too expensive. I would rather curl up with him at home, and watch some TV and nibble at some of our favourite chocolate. Perhaps I'm simple?? Matt is not complaining...LOL!! And if he wants to clean the bathroom, do the laundry and take the kids off my hands for the night...that would be BEST PRESENT ever to show his LOVE for me!! For him, I will allow him to litter the bedroom floor with clothes, leave counters dirty, and allow him to stay out late one night...all without bitching at him...that is my gift to him!! Now isn't that a great Valentines??

It should be the little things that make a GREAT Valentines.....bringing home a Tim Hortons Coffee, a bottle of wine, doing a household chore, or buying me one of my favourite magazines(The English Home)...its the little things that add up to a great love.

Perhaps too, it shouldnt be just about couples and their undying love.....Valentines should be about the LOVE that YOU have for EVERYONE...family and friends...right!? So call up that old friend who might be down in the dumps today...wish them a HAPPY VALENTINES Day...cause afterall, you do love and care about them.