"Real Love"
Over the years I've written some rather cynical posts on Valentine's Day. I still find it kind of an odd "holiday" to celebrate. We should show our affection for those we love every day. Though there is a piece of me that is a hopeless romantic, I am not one who wants chocolate and roses on Valentine's Day. So what did we do?
After school we did the normal Friday evening shopping run to Sams for the girls' Saturday bread supplies. Not being ones who like big crowds of people, we had our Valentine's dinner at Wendy's figuring that would not be a popular destination for those in search of a romantic dinner; although, the red ketchup did add a nice festive touch. We also went to Target, more red. We were behind a cute girl in line who was buying gold sparkly shoes and panty hose to wear on her evening out as she and her sweetheart celebrated their first Valentine's Day together. The checker was trying to share in the girl's excitement. What did we buy? A doormat that says, "Woof" to go under the bowls of our sloppy canine diners. It doesn't get much more romantic than that:-) I have to admit that it was kind of funny watching the line of people trying to find an appropriate Valentine's Day card at 5:15 this afternoon. As any reasonable person would expect, the pickings were mighty slim. Target did, however, have bouquets of roses in the impulse buy racks at the checkouts for those who were too lazy to walk all the way to the back of the store to search through the picked over candy.
When we got home, we had an evening of chores to finish in preparation for a visit from an out of town guest tomorrow. The best Valentine's Day gift, in my opinion, is help with those mundane aspects of life that are no fun but have to be done. Weber did the vacuuming and I followed behind with the mop - and the camera. We got it all done relatively quickly, in time for Brooke and I to watch the men's figuring skating finals.
This is not a good photograph technically, but it does depict true love. I love this guy with every ounce of my being!
Happy Valentine's Day to each of you.
