Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day was probably my favourite day as a kid. I don’t care what anybody says, nothing beats celebrating Valentine’s Day between the ages of 6 and 12 in the good ol’ grade school days.
You spend an entire weekend afternoon writing out valentines on those little perforated cardboard cards to everyone in your class and sealing them with kisses.
You make sure to scrutinize each pre-written message so that your friends get the “Best Friends” cards, your crushes get the “Be Mine” cards, and those kids that you don’t even talk to get something generic like “You’re A-okay valentine!”.
Or maybe just the girls do this. Yeah, it’s probably just a little girl thing.
This card would definitely have been reserved for the grade school ‘love of my life’
At school you make a little paper bag with a heart and your name on it and you go around spreading the Valentine’s day joy into each person’s bag. Everyone is excited and happy and running high on the sugar from candy hearts.
I’m not gonna lie, I still have most of my valentines cards from grade school. I don’t even keep cards from my family and yet those cards from kids I don’t even see anymore are still hiding in the nightstand at my dad’s house.
That atmosphere of excitement is entirely lost when you reach high school and you’re not friends with everyone anymore. People start dating and it feels like Valentine’s Day is just for couples and you feel left out of the fun. But it’s even more distant when you’re in a relationship and you feel pressured to go over the top for Valentine’s Day with flowers, and fancy dinners, and heart-shaped jewellery.
Luckily, Matt totally gets Valentine’s Day. It’s about small thoughtful gestures, random acts of kindness, and candy. Last night Matt made me coconut chocolate pudding, and we ate it together while watching our favourite show: Top Chef.
That’s my idea of a great Valentine’s Day.
P.S. I asked Matt for the chocolate pudding recipe, but he lost it 
Update: Here is the recipe he used, but he added shredded coconut and orange blossom water.
Matt also e-mailed this lovely collection of cards to me and I swooned.
If you’re a Game of Thrones fan, you’ll understand.
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Aw, so sweet that your man made chocolate pudding! On first glance, I thought it was chili with shredded cheese
Either way, yum!!
I’d be delighted with that pudding for V-Day! What a sweet boy.
I agree. It’s all about the simple, heart felt acts. And the chocolate pudding with coconut sounds fantastic!
A very Happy Valentines Day to you!
I totally love Valentines Day and agree with you – it’s just about doing small things to celebrate love! It’s one of those days when big plans are usually a flop anyway and the little things mean so much more
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Sounds like the perfect Valentine’s Day!!
Orange blossom water in coconut chocolate pudding? Oh my, that sounds out of this world! Lucky you, valentine! I got a 6-pack of beer, I was pretty stoked