Just Another Day
Another Valentine's Day has come and gone, and soon the store shelves will be stocked with Easter junk. Why is every holiday being saturated with giant inflatable yard decorations? Our neighbor replaced his blow-up Santa with a blow-up Valentine heart, soon to be replaced with a blow-up Easter Bunny. Ugh.
We made a big deal of the day with our kids, helping them to make cards for friends and family, reading and eating candy hearts, and watching the Charlie Brown Valentine's special. It's fun for us all.
But for the wife and I, this was just another day. No special trinkets or boxes of candy. No extraordinary words of affection or romantic gestures. We do so much of that during the other 364 days of the year that it seems unnecessary to make a special observation of our love on February 14th.
We also never fail to say "I love you" to our children, each and every day, in the morning and in the evening. Words are one thing, but actions speak louder. Kids have an uncanny way of knowing the difference between what you say and what you do, so we make sure that we prove our love to them through support, discipline, attention, education, and security. We don't need a special day to remind us of the importance of that.
Of course, my son would say, "Yeah yeah, okay daddy, just give up the candy!"
We made a big deal of the day with our kids, helping them to make cards for friends and family, reading and eating candy hearts, and watching the Charlie Brown Valentine's special. It's fun for us all.
But for the wife and I, this was just another day. No special trinkets or boxes of candy. No extraordinary words of affection or romantic gestures. We do so much of that during the other 364 days of the year that it seems unnecessary to make a special observation of our love on February 14th.
We also never fail to say "I love you" to our children, each and every day, in the morning and in the evening. Words are one thing, but actions speak louder. Kids have an uncanny way of knowing the difference between what you say and what you do, so we make sure that we prove our love to them through support, discipline, attention, education, and security. We don't need a special day to remind us of the importance of that.
Of course, my son would say, "Yeah yeah, okay daddy, just give up the candy!"
Permalink posted by Phil at 10:37 PM
2 Comments:
I agree with everything you say, Phil. When the kids were little they always gave valentines to all their classmates. For husband and I it is just another day...one filled with love and mutual respect. We don't need a "special day."
Lovely write-up.......thank you.
I also agree. It;s just another day, and if you need that ONE day to make up for the other 364 of them, well then you should take a better look at things.
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