Hallmark Holiday
When my husband and I first meet I had learned through crappy relationships and my mom reminding me not to fight over petty things that we didn't and would not make a big deal over Valentine's Day. It's been ten plus years and he surprises me with flowers at times and we always make a nice dinner on this day which has transitioned nicely into a family tradition now that we have the girls. Love is about the family. Doing and being nice and not about romantic gestures, which I think and hope makes more of of an impression on the both of them. On that note our oldest did the sweetest thing for us. She made breakfast all by herself. I was beside myself. In my husband's word's, " It's a goofy holiday, but a nice reminder celebrate the one's you love."
“Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.'
'Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit.
'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.'
'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?'
'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”
― Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
When my husband and I first meet I had learned through crappy relationships and my mom reminding me not to fight over petty things that we didn't and would not make a big deal over Valentine's Day. It's been ten plus years and he surprises me with flowers at times and we always make a nice dinner on this day which has transitioned nicely into a family tradition now that we have the girls. Love is about the family. Doing and being nice and not about romantic gestures, which I think and hope makes more of of an impression on the both of them. On that note our oldest did the sweetest thing for us. She made breakfast all by herself. I was beside myself. In my husband's word's, " It's a goofy holiday, but a nice reminder celebrate the one's you love."
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| Valentine's Day breakfast 2014 |
'Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit.
'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.'
'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?'
'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”
― Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
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