Valentines Day

[kkgirl]

Just wondering as I having started planning anything yet what everyone is doing for Valentines Day

Must admit that apart from buying a card I hadn't really planned to do anything special (not very romantic am I?!!). I used to work in a restaurant we hated valentine's night as it was full of slushy couples (who never tipped well!).

DH is taking me to Rome for a long weekend, our first weekend away together without the boys !!!
My parents are having them to stay, I've no idea how he managed that, they are not usually very keen on babysitting for us.
I'm torn between wanting to see everything, or just stay in the room and sh*g !!!

Ds will go to parents for the weekend, dh is taking me out for a meal , then back home to bed , depending on how much alcohol has been consumed though. My dh has always been romantic i always get a fab card and a few little pressies, we started going out before valentines day, and that was our first night together, so for us it will always be special. Hope you haven't had to reach for the bucket.

DH and I are going to Melbourne for a weekend away. I am happy to say that ds is staying with my parents for a couple of nights while we go out wining and dining... really looking forward to it. It's been a stressful few months.

kkgirl

I'm planning a little visit to some 'Family' in Chicago.

Got to deliver some violin cases.

I'm on my own the V's day, as dh is snowboarding in Canada until the 16th! I have bought him a present and card, and will tuck it into his bag before he leaves. At the moment I am really p*ssed off with him about something else, so am not sure about packing his gift. We'll see. Anyway, I will probably order a large takeaway, and get a dvd of some sloppy film.

When is it?

OK OK I wish I hadn't asked now. Talk about rubbing it in, you're all going away without your children and I've got no chance, no-one will take our three of our hands, so it'll be me and him holding hands across the three kids sitting between us on the sofa!!!!!!!!

I'm not so bitter and twisted as I am making out, I will probably try and get a babysitter for the night before and take the old man out for a mexican.

Nothing, I'm afraid. Call me unromantic (or just plain jealous ) but I think the whole thing is a very lucrative rip-off.

We have a tradition that we make each other a valentines card - we don't buy them.
We are going away for a night the weekend afterwards, so not doing anything on the 14th.

I've given up! Valentines is about as significant to dh as my birthday, christmas, anniversary etc. Basically if I dont do it, no-one will. And I'm not buying my own card!!!

Batey are we married to the same guy..

I'm married to him too.....

I'm with oxocube - sorry I'm going to sound like a cynical old bag but I just don't understand the valentines thing - why do we need one day to be reminded to be romantic to each other. It's just another way of companies selling more stuff

I'm with oxocube and katierocket. I can't stand the way people( usually women) give their partners a hard time over not producing the goods on these occasions.
And as for all the pink and red tat that appears in the shops at this time of year.....yeuch.

It is nice though for the single people who fancy someone, it is a way of showing you fancy them, when you do not have the bottle to tell them, i personally love valentines day, my dha nd i are a romantic couple and usually get each other little gifts and cards etc etc, as my dh is a manager of a retail store which sells card, with all the promotional stuff he has no excuse to forget, not that he would.

I do think that each to there own, i know my in-laws never bother with cards and stuff and they are still loved up because they show each other every day how much they care, whereas my parents still do the card thing. bless

My dp always has a bouquet of flowers delivered to my work and I love it!!!! We're not a very romantic couple, but it's so nice to receive that.
And we give each other cards. My birthday is the day after Valentines so it's a double wammy for him!!!!!

Oxocube and Katierocket I totally agree, having worked in the merchandising end of retail you see how much of a consumer spin it all is and sales for these occasions are usually in the last few days, husbands etc running out at last minute to grab some overpriced unnesscary (sp?) pieceof tat where the money could easily have been better spent.
My dh rarely remembers these occasions but I'm usually glad he doesn't.
Sorry if that sounds like a rant...not in best mood today

I am being very thoughtful to my ex-husband this year. This is the first year we have been totally separated. He left me last New Years Eve, changed his mind in January and then told me Valentine's Eve that it was finally over between us. He moved out in September (yes, 7 months later) and is now living with a girl from work. Because he normally has the children overnight on a Friday night, I have told him that this particular weekend he can have them Saturday night instead as it is Valentines Day and he can then spend it with his new girlfriend doing something nice. Just wish it was me!

Actually, after writing that, I don't wish it was me. Makes me sound rather a sad person, which I am not!!!

I'm not a big fan of Valentine's Day. Discussed it with DH and we agreed that I would make a dessert - something chocolatey and other than the cards that will be it. We're away (at a party) on the Saturday night so can't really justify much on the Friday. Don't like the commercial aspect of it - would much rather DH and I had a special time on our own Wedding Anniversary which is personal to us.

Bumblelion, she really are the bigger person, i know a lot of women would be difficult and to be honest i probably would be one, who knows your Mr Right might be just round the corner .