How do you celebrate Love?
Feb/102
I could leave this blog post at that one question – How do you celebrate Love?
But I’ll add to it just a little bit.
I (Kristi) have never been a huge fan of Valentine’s day; I never got into the celebration. The peak of my celebration happened in the 8th grade when a friend and I decided to anonymously give handmade Valentine’s cards to every student in our grade. We spent all night cutting, gluing, writing nice notes, and then arrived early to school to stuff one in everyone’s locker. It was fun, until you saw kids look at it with quizzical expressions and drop it on the floor to be torn up and stepped on in the hallway madness.
It was all downhill after that.
My most memorable Valentine’s day celebrations were the fun double-date (that is, one fella with two ladies!) to Joss Sushi with Anton and Lisa at St. John’s, and my post college “celebration” of watching a mafia movie, drinking beer, eating pizza, and reading raunchy French poetry with my (then) fellow single lady, Lauren.
When Trevor and I realized we could have our wedding on February 14th, we refused to consider it. There would not be pink and lace and doilies at our wedding! Waiting two more weeks was worth it to avoid all the stereotypes.
But I DO think about celebrating Love. God’s Love, Platonic Love, Romantic Love, Neighborly Love, Puppy Love…
I would love to hear how you enjoy celebrating Love. What is the most memorable celebration of Love, or most memorable date, you have ever had? I’m not talking about Valentine’s day specifically. What made this date or event memorable? Was it fun? Was it romantic? Was it unique? Was it personal and tailored for you? What creative things have you done for someone else?
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3:51 pm on February 11th, 2010
Our first Valentine’s Day together, we decided to skip all hype, spend no money and make each other our own Valentine’s.
Over my homemade lasagna dinner that night, Michael passed me a piece of orange construction paper folded in half.
“This card is orange.”
“No, it’s red.”
[laughing] “No, really. It’s orange.” And I held my red card next to his orange card.
“Oh. Well…. I made it in the dark.” As in he made it in our dark bedroom about 5 minutes before.
Next year, we decided it was ok to buy a Valentine.
8:28 pm on February 18th, 2010
M likes to give a rose for every year we’ve been together, which was ten this year. And yes, I’ll admit to loving roses, even cliche red ones. I don’t however, undertsand the bias towards long-stemmed roses. Shorter stemmed garden roses are the best, and even if they are the long-legged imports that came from the grocery store, the first thing I do with them is to chop off half the stem:)