It’s Valentine’s Day!!

So if you are like me you go back and forth on this “holiday”, I mean some years it feels like a Hallmark holiday and other years I just want some romantic gesture from my husband. This year happens to be a year of wanting some romance. My husband always says he doesn’t know how to be romantic. He used to be and think over the years of kids, playdates, homework, work, life in general, he may have forgotten a lot of what he used to do.

Every year I know that I am going to get one of those pillow and throw things from Walmart.

So this morning when he text me (he works midnights) to let me know he was at Walmart and asked if I wanted/needed anything I almost told him not to get the pillow/blanket thing. Not because I didn’t want it but because our kids have developed a habit of taking them almost as soon as I get them. 🙂 I didn’t say anything and let him buy it. When he gave it to me this morning I told him that I almost text him not to get it. He says,

“Well I have gotten you one every year since we’ve been together.” *Heart melt!! It turns out that I did get a little romance in my Valentine’s Day after all!

I tend to look at romance as something like the movies. The thing is, is that I can see romance in all of the little things he does. It doesn’t always have to be this huge gesture.

Today our kids don’t have school (Professional Development Day), so instead of us getting a nice relaxing day together we get 3 loud and crazy kids running around destroying our nice clean house. Not romantic! We were thinking of going out for dinner ALONE but not a babysitter to be found. Thank God my mom was available. My husband hasn’t had Valentine’s Day off from work since we’ve been together. We have just always celebrated it on another day. Today we looked at each other across our messy house and said

“I’m too tired to go out tonight.”

WHAT!!! That just won’t do so we are going out (thanks to my mom) and at least share a dinner without the usual reminders; stop tapping, eat your dinner, no you can’t get up until you eat your broccoli, ect. YAY Another point for romance 🙂

Getting to celebrate even the smallest holidays with my husband means a lot to me. We tend to focus so much on the kids that we neglect each other. Take some time today and focus on each other. Your kids will always be there, let them see you take some time for each other.

Happy Valentine’s Day!!

Crazy Mom, Signing Off

Do everything without complaining or arguing ~ Philippians 2:14