Monday's Memory-- Valentine's Day

I love Valentine's Day. I think that it is my favorite holiday, besides Christmas of course! I love decorating and cooking and writing love notes and planning little family parties and giving little gifts and giving Valentines to my friends, but this year I did none of it. Zilch, zero, nada. And my family noticed. "Mom, where are the heart-shaped pink pancakes?" "Mom, arent' we having heart-shaped pizza for dinner?" I'm not exactly sure why I didn't get into the spirit of the holiday this year. Could be because we just got back from Disneyland last week and my focus was on getting ready to go out of town. Could be that I'm just feeling stress from other areas in my life and this got bumped to the bottom of the list. Who knows. But my husband did thank me for setting the expectations a little lower this year. Took the pressure off of him. You're welcome, honey. And maybe next year my family will appreciate my Valentine efforts even more because this year was such a bust. So in the meantime, I was thinking about years past. Here's a couple of my better Valentine years.