Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone!!  The blog photo shows a rainbow of colors and it should brighten your day.  We all need that now and again.

Remember when you were a kid and it was Valentine's Day?  Everyone was so excited to bring in their mailboxes made out of a shoebox.  At the appointed time, the class would set their "mailboxes" on the desk and then the distribution would begin.  Chaos actually most of the time.  Finally, when every single valentine card was delivered, it was time to enjoy whatever the room mothers had figured out for refreshments. 

One year I got some kind of kit to make Valentine's cards.  It had little paper doilies in it and hearts of different sizes.  The kit made it pretty easy to create  lovely little cards for all my classmates.  I think we had about 24 in our class.  That was one year when giving was really better than getting.  Do you remember the absolutely corny sayings on the cards?  There would be a cowgirl and she'd have her lasso all ready to go and it would say something like, "I'm roping you in, Valentine."  Or maybe not.

Wish I had some of those cards today.  Today's Valentine's are still corny, but a lot of them are themed, like princess valentines or Buzz Lightyear valentines. 

The best candy without a doubt came from Fanny Farmer.  What happened to the Fanny Farmer stores?  I haven't seen one in years.  They made something called a French mint.  It was like Andes mints but MUCH bigger and creamier.  Oh, they were so delicious.

If you don't have a special person in your life these days, don't despair.  Just go on out and get yourself something cheerful, like a few flowers or a French mint if you can find it, or maybe a purse.  Why is buying a purse so much fun?  Everything is just going to settle to its bottom like the rest of them?  Don't pay any attention to me.

Enjoy the day.  Some people say, "Love is in the air."  I say love is always.  Thanks to God.