WWTK

Valentine Edition!

I am linking up with Mamarazzi for today's We Want to Know!

{1} How was your Valentine's Day?

I honestly think it's one of the loveliest I've ever had! 

I always spend the month before Valentine's Day fighting it.  I say I don't buy into this holiday and I don't need anything from my husband to prove his love for me.  Then the 14th hits and I get all mushy and sappy.  On that day, I realize that I truly do need something!  Several years, Hubby has listened to my rants and has done literally nothing.  Sometimes he says that he'll take me out shopping.  He doesn't get that I don't need something expensive, just something to show that he tried. 

This year, he got me a Cadbury Egg, my most favorite thing in all the world.  Sure, it cost under a dollar, but it showed that he took my likes into consideration.  He also got me a hilarious card that said:

Honey, I hope you know that all of your hard work has not gone unnoticed.

I've been watching you from the couch during commercials.

I literally laughed out loud because that is so true!  See, he knows me after all!

I made him a steak dinner (yeah it was huge), un-iced sugar cookies (he's weird like that), chocolate covered strawberries, and pretzel chocolates.  I don't have a job, people!  I must create in order to give gifts!!!

{2} What is your favorite flower? Did your honey get them for you?

I just love flowers and don't have a specific favorite.  Gerbera daisies rank up there, along with hydrangeas, tulips, and gardenias.  As stated above, I strongly oppose paying over $50 for a dozen roses.  The $.70 Cadbury Egg was just fine with me.

{3} Was Valentine's Day a big deal when you were a kid?

When I was a kid, it was all about the Valentine box!  My mom and I spent the night before the school party hunting for a shoe box and red construction paper.  We cut out hearts, glued and glittered, and cut a slot in the top for my friends to drop my Valentines in.  Today, my kids simply color on a paper bag at school.  Nothing pretty, nothing fancy.  The slot in the top doesn't work any more because the kids get as many treats as they do cards.  I liked it our way better.

{4} Did you put up any Valentine's Day decorations? (bonus points for a picture)

Girl, no!  I barely put up Christmas decorations this year!  I am so not into decorating for holidays.  It's way too much work for this overstressed mama.  When I am wealthy and famous, I will pay someone to do this to my house:

{5} Do you have any Valentine's Day traditions?
No, unless you count not going out as a tradition.  We went out one time when V-Day was on a Saturday and I vowed never to do it again.  I really did not enjoy it.  Hubby actually offered to take me to Chipotle last night (which I would totally prefer over an expensive, ritzy restaurant where we would drop a couple Benjamins), but I said I would rather stay in and cook.  Waiting for him to get home, shower and shave, and drive to a restaurant, it would have been 8:00.  No thanks. 

That's why I said my V-Day was perfect.  I fed the kids early so that Hubby and I could enjoy steak, parmesan potatoes, and freshly baked bread alone.  Well, Baby Girl intermittently climbed over him and did a lot of talking.  But still, it was lovely.