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Happy Valentine's Day!!

After celebrating 37 Valentine's Day since I married my husband, Mike, I have to say I can't remember most of what we did or what gift I got from my him.  Twice I got roses.  That's all I remember.  So, the lesson here is, we make a big deal about this day that we're never going to remember down the road. 

I met Mike February 28, 1975, so I missed that Valentines with him, but by the next year we had already been married six months.  That year, 1975, was a busy one for me.  I had a new boyfriend, graduated from high school, got married and moved to Louisville.  The first Valentine's Day we shared was February 1976 and that year I got red roses.  After that it was over 20 years before I got roses again, they were white. I don't remember what year that was, but I must have been good.

Sometimes Mike has asked me what I want and I have always come up with something.  I go for the practical things that we really need.  One year for Christmas I asked for and got a kitchen sink.  Lately, if he asks me what I want I've been replying, "I would love it if you would quit smoking."  Then the next time he asks, I change it up a little and name another one of his bad habits that I wish he would give up.  His answer to this is, "I will quit when you quit eating or lose 50 pounds."  He's such a romantic. This year I got him something I had never gotten him before, 2 packs of cigarettes.  I always said I would not enable him to smoke, but I racked my brain thinking about what to get him that he would really like, so cigarettes it was.  Also, that's a really expensive gift.

I always expect something for Valentine's Day, but the last couple years, I've just gotten a card.  Cards are nice too.  At least he thought of me.  I was thinking about Valentine's Day and how my boys celebrate it.  Kyle is a romantic, he's always coming up with ideas to surprise his wife, Melanie. He takes her out every weekend.  But, Melanie is not that much of a romantic, from my point of view that is.  To her Valentine's Day is all about her children, which I appreciate so much.  She has spent a week getting Jack ready for his party at school.  Jack signed all his cards himself.  She made chocolate chip cookies and gift bags and cards for all his classmates and the teachers.  Neil, well he's a little bit romantic.  Not as much as Kyle, but more than Mike.  He's taking Ashley out for dinner this year and maybe a movie.  They live in Georgetown and don't have anyone close to watch the boys so they can go out every now and then.  I'm going to visit them Saturday and watch the boys so they can get away for awhile.  Ashley is a romantic.  She actually should have married Kyle.  She's also a lot like me.  We were both born on May 4, different years though.  Maybe it's our zodiac sign.  I never believed in those much, but I will agree that Ashley and myself think alike. 

I hope everyone gets something, a hug, a text, a kiss, a call, a ring, roses, candy, stuffed animals kitchen sink or whatever you ask for on this Valentine's Day.  If you don't have anyone to remember you on this day, I will.  I wish everyone, old and young, a Happy Valentine's Day and many more. All of us are loved.