Valentine's Day Approacheth!!

[NannyB.]

The "Day of Love" is upon us once again.  It's the big money maker for florists and other retailers that falls between Christmas and Easter.  It's also the day that many wives will feel hurt and left out and unloved by their very loving husbands because he either forgets it's "the" day that he is required to show love to his wife or he will have just taken her out to eat on Friday night and thinks he's done well.  The same thing happens to him on Mother's Day or her birthday, and he gets really confused as to what is really important to her.  I very well remember the first Mother's Day after our oldest child was born.  I was expecting gifts and all kinds of special treatment, but I got NOTHING.  I had an absolute fit because I knew I should have been honored on Mother's Day.  We always honored our mothers(I was the one who did that).  It later dawned on me that these were not special days in the home where my husband grew up.  He had not been taught to "honor" his mother on those "special" days and his dad never even bought her a Christmas present.  So I had work to do if my children were to grow up the way I had rather than the way he had.  My hubby(we just celebrated our 46th anniversary last month) is now pretty good about remembering the "special" days, but the best days are those when he spontaneously brings me a bouquet of flowers "just because."  He loves me, and knowing that is more than enough.  Part of that is probably due to nothing more than the age I've reached, but part of it is also knowing that he loved me enough to hang around for 46 years.  So, if you don't get candy or flowers on Monday, try not to be too upset.  It's just a day!