I LOVE Valentine's Day!

I LOVE Valentine's Day! I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! It is my favorite holiday. I know that is weird, most people love Christmas the best, but I LOVE Valentine's Day.

Maybe I love it because it is two days before my birthday, oh and two days before my husbands birthday.
Or it may be because its the day you get to be sweet and sappy and expressive with how much you LOVE the people in your life. The day my husband proves his romantic side is still alive. Could be that he buckles under the pressure to buy a card but it's what the card says that will show he was thinking about me.
It might be because the Valentine's Day is filled with pink and red and frilly hearts. I LOVE pink and red and I LOVE hearts. Brighton Jewelry is my favorite because of all the various designs of hearts.
Maybe it's because my very first Valentine memory was a valentine card from a 2nd grade boy, when I was just a first grader. The folded little valentine read; "I Todd, Love You Deana". I saved that precious memory in a scrapbook; the old fashioned kind that you have to glue or tape everything onto the construction paper. The kind that gets really thick and full of little pieces of treasured mementos.
Certainly I love Valentine's Day because I have fond memories of the party's in the classrooms where we exchanged valentines and candy with all of our classmates, dropping a little card into each of the homemade mailboxes. I couldn't wait to get home and read all of my cards to see who gave me what kind of valentine. Was she really my friend? Did he secretly like me? The valentine could always solve the mystery. So I would read them and eat the candy as I walked home from school.
Mostly I think I LOVE Valentine's Day because my mom always made Valentine's Day very special. I would wake up to a pretty, girly card and a little candy treat either in my room or at the breakfast table. My favorite one was a little cardboard trinket box that had music when the lid was lifted. On Valentines Day I knew my mom loved me!
I have carried on the tradition with my own kids. Valentine's Day is about them too! I am not sure if my teenage son cares all that much for my sentiment, but i know he loves the candy and I know he is assured of my love for him.