A Valentine Tag Revisited

Welcome to the week of chocolate, hearts, flowers, chocolate and..well, more chocolate!  It seems like Valentine’s Day creates strong opinions….either you really enjoy it and embrace all the fun.  Or you totally don’t.  I have so many fun memories of celebrating Valentine’s Day with my kiddos when they were little.  We started the day with pink milk and something sweet for breakfast, always had huge fun with parties at school, and would end the day with a special meal that often included fondue (our Valentine treat!)  Even with the kids now grown, I still enjoy this day just to have some fun.  For a good excuse to gift a friend with something sweet.  To add some fun to an otherwise long and cold February.  And, of course, another fun way to show some love to my valentine!! This is last year’s post about him:)

This year, we are hoping to go for dinner with a few other couples.  Our weather has been, well, wintry and unpredictable but hopefully all roads will be clear later this week.  I have also not been feeling well but really hoping to be good to go by the week’s end.  I am also teaching little ones during Junior Church…so another chance to have some Valentine’s fun.  They will be singing during the morning (I Love You, Lord) and we will have some heart-themed fun afterward!

Just for fun…I thought I would “dig up” a post from about a decade ago.  See if anything has changed or not:)  Feel free to join in.  Answer one or two in the comments.  And have a “sweet” week!!

1. Describe your valentine?  dependable, faithful, steadfast, handsome and “old-school”:)  totally true to this day

2. Best Valentine’s present you ever received? I really have got nothin’ here (we don’t usually give gifts) but I’m going with the stuffed bumble bee?!??!  I have no idea what stuffed bumble bee I was referring to there!  None.  I also have no idea what a best gift (for Valentine’s Day) would be??

3. Worst Valentine’s present you ever received? a card  I guess so.  A card would be better than nothing, I suppose.

4. Your favorite Valentine candy? dark chocolate – hands down!!  Absolutely. For sure.  Still, the same!

5. Would you rather receive chocolate or flowers? Flowers  Funny, this answer has definitely changed.  I will certainly take dark chocolate over flowers. Hmmm.

6. A dress-up candlelight dinner out or a movie snuggling at home? Dinner out – especially the dress-up and candlelight kind!  Same again…although we don’t do many candlelight restaurants.  We can’t read the menus…lol!

7. Your favorite romantic movie? Shall We Dance (I think, maybe, in another life I was a ballroom dancer:) What in the world.  Definitely not a ballroom dancer – in this life or another one! 

8. Your favorite romantic song? I have no idea. Pathetic, I know. But my valentine, honestly, is not a music appreciator and romantic songs??? I don’t know.  Pretty much spot on how I would answer that question today!

Really, not much has changed.  Interesting.  But, still fun.  Whether you are a fan or not, hope your week includes a little chocolate (preferably dark) – just because.