Valentine’s Day is one of the most commercialized holidays today. Any other time of the year, you can find a dozen roses for under $25! Then this time of year and you can bet your bottom that your going to shell out 3 times that much! That is beyond ridiculous! Personally I am not into Valentine’s Day. My husband is sweet and does try. Last year he handed me the mail with a card stuck in the middle. It was such a surprise that it meant the world. Then the other day he went to the store and came home with a little plaque that says “My Loving Wife”. It was so cute and cheesy that I knew it was meant with a lot of love.

He knows that I don’t want flowers on Valentine’s day because I am a firm believer that it is one of those last minute gifts that have no thought put into it. Now if they were delivered in a thoughtful manner than that would possibly change my mind. But most flowers are delivered by some stranger with a card that was written by a stranger. See what I mean? No thought! Heck the person who bought them probably didn’t even know what the card said!

What about dinner? EEK! The restaurants are overcrowded and not romantic at all! Isn’t Valentine’s supposed to be romantic? How is a waiting room full of strangers waiting on that table to be cleared romantic? Personally my idea of a romantic dinner is not spent with strangers, but spent with my husband. A nice quiet candlelight dinner for 2 homecooked either at home or a picnic somewhere. As long as it’s just him and me. Where we can have an intimate moment without the ruckus of others. What would make it better? If this happened out of the blue! Not because they feel obligated but because they want to! I don’t need a holiday to tell me about love. I want to experience that intimacy throughout the year. We should also be celebrating marriage more than a few times a year!