Valentine's Day is just around the corner and love is in the air. I wanted to share two of my favorite Valentine's Day memories with you and then I have a little surprise for you too.....
#1. Making homemade Valentine's Day boxes to collect Valentine's cards from friends.
I can remember spending hours decorating shoe boxes with tissue paper and glue, construction paper, cut out heart shapes or stickers and of course glitter was a must! I remember wrapping the tops so that every square inch of my box was covered. Then I proudly took my box to school each year (along with a Valentine's card for each classmate) and came home that afternoon with a box full of cards from my friends and teacher. It was always so much fun to read those and see what kind of cards and sometimes even candy I got!
#2. A Valentine's Day card and a box of chocolates from my Dad.
Once a Daddy's girl, always a Daddy's girl....and I most certainly am a Daddy's girl...even at 35 years old! My Dad and I have a very special and very close relationship. My Mom and I are very close too but I am certainly a Daddy's girl. I will still sit in his lap and get hugs from him and I miss living so far away from my parents now. Each year growing up (and even now that I am grown) my Dad always picked out a Valentine's Day card for us and gave both me and my sister a card and a box of chocolates. The cards were never the same (he picked them out individually) but the chocolates always were so we would trade out what we liked and didn't like with each other. Years before I had a boyfriend (and now a husband) to make Valentine's Day special, I had a Dad that made Valentine's Day special for us and took that day to tell us how much he loved us and how much he loved being our Dad.
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19 comments:
Hmm I can't even think of one
My favorite valentines memory is probably my first valentine's date with my SO. It was my first valentines date ever and it was when I was 21, so it was long awaited! Ever since that first date he always tries to make Valentines day really special for us, and he even gives our daughter valentines day gifts too which I love <3 Its a special day in our house for sure :)
My favorite Valentines memory is probably my first valentines date with my fiance, which was my first valentines date period, so it was long awaited. Ever since then he always tries to make valentines day very special, and he even gives our daughter valentines gifts too! Which I just love, its a special day in our house for sure <3
my hubby and my first vday as a married couple we found out we were expecting,,, unforgetable!!
My favorite Valentines memory is similar to yours. My dad and grandad always gave me a card and some chocolates
I loved when I received flowers from my husband who was out of town.
My husband had sent flowers, candy, balloons and Teddy bear to my work when we first met.
I was in the hospital last Valentine's day and a friend I hadn't seen since church camp 20 years prior visited me!
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My favorite Valentine's Day memory is when my dad sent me flowers in school when I was a senior. I remember how special that made me feel that my dad was so thoughtful. :-)
Actually I think my favourite memories are also the decorated shoeboxes and those special valentine's from my friends! ♥
I think my favourite memories are also those decorated shoeboxes filled with special valentine's from all my friends! Happy Valentine's Day! ♥
Probably remembering my Dad taking such good care of me and my mom on V Day buying us chocolate. I miss him.
My hubby taking me to a cottage and having a special supper made over a hearth fire. Very surprised.
My favorite Valentine's Day memory would be when my Handsome and I were engaged and he was deployed to Iraq and he sent me beautiful roses to the school where I was working. It was very romantic and such a thoughtful gesture, given the difficulty that he faced trying to do all that from overseas.
Thanks for the chance to win! :)
My favorite valentine memory is all the cards I got in grade school from my classmates. I still get them out and look at them occasionally:)
My favorite memory is making Valentines cards and packaging them with goodies for my classmates. Now I do that with my kids.
My favorite V-day memory is from my first one with my hubby while we were still dating. He gave me a cross necklace and made a romantic picnic on his living room floor!
My favorite Valentine's Day memory would be waking up my 1st Valentine's morning as a Mommy and seeing my new born daughter lying on the bed with a card and big plush heart next to her. (melt!)
One of my favorites things was going to school and exchanging valentine cards. Patricia
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