Valentine’s Day
12 February 2010
First of all, happy 1st birthday to my pal, Ellery. I cannot believe you’re a year old today. Which I will likely be saying to you every year for the rest of your life.
Secondly, this is the last post before Valentine’s Day, so it seemed an appropriate thing to talk about. Anybody game for sharing a worst/funniest/best Valentine’s Day story?
The most amusing one that comes to my mind is Ben’s and my first Valentine’s Day. We were 14 and not allowed to date by ourselves, so we went on a triple date with his parents and mine at Macaroni Grill. I think both of us were quiet all through dinner. We were still pretty uncomfortable around each other in general, and having two sets of parents at the table probably didn’t loosen us up.
I’ve always been a bit of a romantic, so Valentine’s Day has always been really fun for me. Except in middle school, when I always anticipated that this would be the year a secret admirer would reveal himself. Those years were disappointing.
From freshman year on, however, I’ve had Ben. Even the year we were broken up, he sent me flowers at school, and I have a vague memory of watching a movie at his house with him and his brother. Now, our Valentine’s Days have not always been super romantic. Like when we were doing the long distance thing. Or when McKenna was two months old and we took turns holding our fussy baby and eating our nice, cold dinner. But for 12 years now, we’ve celebrated together, and that’s pretty cool.
But I definitely remember the years of disappointing Valentine’s Days pre-Ben. This year, the big positive for anti-V-Day people is that it’s a Sunday, so you won’t have to be quite as immersed in it as you usually are on a school/work day.
Whatever your plans are this weekend, whether it’s of the ex-boyfriend bon fire variety or the more traditional candy/flowers/dinner out routine, hope you enjoy. See you back here on Monday.
Comments
Love Valentines day. Fourteen years ago on this Valentine’s day, my sweet hubby proposed to me. Six months later we were married. Woo-Hoo!
Posted by Lynn Rush on 12 February 2010
Lynn, that’s so sweet! Hard to top get proposed to :)
Roseanna, what a sweet guy! And visiting a jewelry store around Valentine’s Day is no picnic…
Posted by Stephanie on 12 February 2010
Steph, thanks for your birthday well-wishes to Ellery. It’s really hard to believe how fast this year has flown by…
Valentine’s Day happens to be my niece, Isabella’s, birthday! So Happy 14th Birthday to her!
My favorite Valentine’s story is from when Justin and I were engaged and we were dating long distance. He was in Indiana, and came all the way to Lawrence to surprise me for the weekend. My parents were in on it and picked him up at the airport and transported him to Lawrence…it was a wonderful surprise…except that my apartment was probably a mess and I was in pajamas with my hair in a ponytail…but he married me anyway! :-)
Posted by Kelli on 12 February 2010
I think one of my favorites is from our senior year of college, when I complained that I wanted a surprise for once. (NOT my hubby’s forte.) So he took one of our friends with him to help him shop and found me a ruby ring to match the necklace I’d picked out for Christmas. Now, had I been there, I would have nixed it as being too expensive, but since I WASN’T, he spent way too much (lol) and got me this gorgeous ring.
It’s one of my favorite memories, not because of the money, but because of the stories he later told of going to every single jewelry store in Annapolis in search of this ring. Awwwww.
Posted by Roseanna White on 12 February 2010