Hearts and Flowers

Today is Valentine's Day.

I'm a little bit anti-Valentine's Day.

I am certainly not anti- love or anti-relationship or anything like that.  

I just think its a holiday created by Hallmark and a bunch of other retail establishments.  (I can safely say that, as I worked there for 2 fabulous years in college.)  The lines of men everywhere to buy their significant other a bunch of pink and red crap with hearts and glitter all over it always just cracked me up.  I never necessarily wanted to be on the receiving end of that stuff.  

I guess I just don't totally understand why ONE day needs to remind everyone to tell the people they love that they love them.  I am a firm believer in telling my husband and my family and friends ALL the time that I love them and that they are important to me.  I don't need one specific day.  

I've always told my darling dearest that I am not big on V-day.  Shockingly, he does not have a problem with that.  (Of course, after I convinced him that this wasn't some sort of test or trick!)  I would rather he just do something nice for me at another totally random time of the year, not because one specific day on the calendar says he should.    



So, we don't celebrate it. 

 No boxes of candy, no over-priced flowers (again, because its one specific day), no nothing. 

 It's just another day for us.  

And tomorrow I will wake up, and again tell my husband and my family and friends how much I love them.  Not because of a date on the calendar- but because it's just a nice thing to do.