My favorite holiday has always been Valentines Day (Heart Day). Growing up we celebrated all the traditional holidays that most Americans celebrate, the big ones anyway, but the best one was always Heart Day. In our family Heart Day was a big deal. We exchanged presents like it was Christmas. We would, for that day at least, let bygones be bygones and sometimes letting things go went beyond the holiday and lasted the rest of the year. I loved giving Valentines to all my friends. Each Heart Day we would shop and plan and write something from the heart to all the special people in our lives. Oh and the candy… just wow! Who doesn’t love hearts, flowers, and CHOCOLATE with caramel? We often handmade our Valentines, and we would pull out all the stops with ribbon, and lace, and hearts of course. Some cards were the size of notebook paper and even laminated. Below is one such card that I made.
It was a day we celebrated LOVE!
Over the years Heart Day has remained my hands down favorite holiday… but it has lost a little bit of it’s luster as I have aged and grown wiser. I have always secretly wished that every day was Heart Day. The feelings of gratefulness, forgiveness, just rolling with things for the sake of love-ness that I associated with that day… I wanted in my life every day. Could it be that simple? Of course it can! We cannot control what others think or do, but we can choose at anytime to improve our own perspective and actions. I am not sure when exactly that I began to put into practice what has always been in my heart regarding Heart Day. I just know that I now do, and have for sometime. Heart Day will always be my favorite holiday because it celebrates love, but I will choose to celebrate love EVERYDAY for the rest of my life… not just one day a year.
I’ve never been a fan of Valentine’s day, and now that my kids are older, I must admit, I completely ignore it. My husband sometimes gets me chocolates, but I always tell him not to worry about it, which I’m sure is a relief to him. But if it were called Heart Day and was more along the lines a celebration of what you propose rather than the commercialized holiday I see it as, I might be able to get more into it. 🙂 Love your pure heart!
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🙂 Thank you Carrie… you are so sweet. I think perhaps many holidays were ruined for my mom as a child and maybe that’s why she chose to make Heart Day special. Whatever the reason…it resonated with me. I do think that men can stress under the weight of expectations when it comes to the commercialization of Valentines Day. That’s sad.. we’ll just make it how we want it Carrie. 🙂
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Knowing you as well as I do, I am NOT surprised that you are a big Heart Day advocate. You are so loving and open, it’s something I really admire about you. Valentine’s Day isn’t that big of a deal to me because I think it has gotten over commercialized, but I do think there is something special about celebrating love.
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Jen it seems all of the holidays have gotten commercialized… it’s sad really. But yes…lets just celebrate love however each of us needs to do that. 🙂 Hugs
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Dani, you’re the kind of person who celebrates Valentines Day every day!
xoxo
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🙂 xo
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For me Valentine’s Day was always aimed at showing love to everyone I loved and not just towards a guy. I kinda like to celebrate my friends or loved ones whenever I can. You know, when they least expect it hehe 🙂 xoxoxo
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Me too sweet TJ, me too. 🙂
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Yaaaaaaaay!! *high fives* ❤
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Dancing and high fiving all around. giggles.
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Aww I love the giggles!! 🙂
Have a great weekend!
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Love is the answer, after all.
Thank you for this.
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You are so welcome. 🙂 Thank you for stopping by. I believe love is always the answer.
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