Vintage linen Valentine's...and other fun idea's

 I love love ALL the Holidays!

'LOVE MONTH'

is no exception! Yes, Love month!

In Elementary school...it was sitting at your desk,

Opening each Valentine ... hoping

that 'one' would say that something special!

If you went to school in the Era I did...then you would know ...we always put something on the cards

when we liked someone... and I remember....just hoping

I would get that card that would say

"Your Cute"

or

"I Like you"

or 

"Your Pretty"

or..or..or....

Because when you did...you floated home on a cloud!!!

That was a good Valentine's day at Age 8,9,10!!!

Later in Jr High and High School, the pressure was even more!

in our school the Cooking class, made Giant cookies to sell.

you could Buy a giant cookie for someone,

and write anything you liked on it!

At the end of the day, these cookies were handed out!

The delivery 'Kids' would come into each class and walk around

to those 'Lucky' ones that had gotten a Giant Valentine cookie

from someone...it seems that some got more then one...

and then there was ummm me....for reasons

unknown...I never got one!

Or there was a stage in High School when those that had a Boyfriend,

received a promise ring on Valentine's day!

I had 2 Girlfriends one year, that received promise ring's

we oooh and awwwed over the ring and diamond...yes diamond!

OK, so maybe the diamond was small, like micro-diamond...

but still, it said something...

THEY were loved! 

Oh yes, I always received a Valentine from my Mom, or a girlfriend...but when your a

Teen...that just didn't seem the same! 

Some girls, received rose's and other's chocolate's

and the most popular girls got all of the above!!!

with a Big Giant cookie to boot!  

Then I got Married! and I thought YES, finally..I will get rings, and chocolates,

rose's and romance...

BUT... my husband is a 'man's man' and thus rose's and chocolate's, ring's and diamond's

were just not him...

however, I did receive always a beautiful card..with words that brought me to tears.

On our first Valentine's he made a wood heart and hung hooks on it...

for my necklace's.  May I add, we really didn't have money, for rose's and chocolate's

ring's and diamonds...back then...

Then came the year, my husband was working out of town, and so busy...no card came!

This was approx. 13  years ago. Our girls were in High School and I received a 

e-mail from 'someone'...she was newly married for the second time

and was sharing her 1st Valentine's with me...

As I started reading, my oldest daughter stands by me reading also...it went something like this..

"I woke up to rose petal's making a path to the bathroom, when I got there,

music was playing and there was a little box...

 ... In it was a diamond tennis bracelet,

later at work the florist came with 24 long stemmed rose's,

and when I got home that night...

There were chocolates and a card... he also brought in someone to give me a

personal massage...Then of course,  (OF COURSE)

we went out to dinner at one of my favorite restaurant...

It has truly been the best Valentine's day!"  

you could of heard a pin drop as my Daughter and I came to the end...

and then my daughter said, 

"MOM, your Valentine's SUCKED"

(May I add, this daughter has brought much laughter to our lives) 

A part of me wanted to hit the reply button and say, "In the future please

keep your wonderful days to yourself"!!!

10 years later..this marriage of this someone was over!

however, I am still here...with my Manly man husband!

I think of the Diamond ring he gave me, for my 30th birthday!

the one he wanted me to have from day one!

I think of the locket he gave me on a birthday, with pictures of our kids on one side

and a picture of him on the other side. Then there was the Black Golds ring,

 this past July as my Birthday fell on the day we had my mom's service.

It was a ring that had 2 hearts intertwined..for my Mom and I.

There are moments throughout the year,  that he tries romance, and he

makes me laugh often...but he is a man's man!

Yet I have come to realize..his gift's.

When it's freezing outside and the plumbing freezes, it's not me out

there, but him. And then he also helps all the neighbor's.

When we break down... I am in the car, when he is out fixing the car..in the heat, cold or dark.

There truly is nothing my husband can't fix! and he fixes it right...!

I don't have to worry about all that Yucky stuff...because he is out there Fixing it!

Anything heavy he lift's, he builds homes, roofs, gates, cement paths, porches..nothing is out of his reach...even when the plumbing backs up!!! (I so wouldn't want that job)

he is the man on the job!

and that I have come to realize is

LOVE!

Romance can go as quickly as it came, but LOVE..real love..well it stays!

So I call February "love month"

a reminder to let the people we love know..! Not just our Husbands,

but our parents, our children our friends...etc

a time to remember all those 'thing's' that show what love,

Truly is!

I hope your Month, your Valentine's..will be as GOOD as mine have

always been!

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