A Loverly Valentines Day

Husband and I don't really observe Valentine's Day in the traditional sense. It is not a day of romance, of pink or red cards exchanged, or of love letters for us. I don't exactly know why, but since the very beginning of our relationship we have never really done anything special for V-Day.

I think one year JFF got me a massage and one year I think I painted him a picture, but otherwise there just hasn't been energy put towards it. I think we celebrate each other and a pretty fantastic relationship all year round, so to do it on one day in February seems just a bit contrived.

Regardless though, we did take time to really relax on Saturday after a couple of pretty busy weeks. In the morning we had separate things happening, I got some good time by myself at the mall and got two new pairs of shoes out of the deal.

For lunch we headed to the French Meadow Bakery in uptown and had a fantastic, slow lunch. Afterwards we headed over for our yearly visit to the Conservatory where it felt like Florida with lots of beautiful, lush plants and nice flowers. It was a perfect sunny day to be strolling through the glassed in green houses.

Afterwards we made a quick stop for some dinner supplies, I took a very long and leisurely nap, we and then made really good lasagne for dinner. Snuggling and watching a good movie- a quiet evening in by ourselves was the order of the evening.

Overall, it felt like such a wonderful, relaxing day.  So although there were no red roses, chocolates, or money dished out to the greeting card industry, it was a great day to be thankful for each other.