Where Have All The Flowers Gone
What is it about a bouquet of flowers that makes women so giddy? If you ask most women what they want for Valentines Day, flowers are usually at the top of their list. Being a man, I don't get it. I mean, I'd be happy with one of those heart-shaped pepperoni pizzas from Papa Murphy's.
But that's okay. I don't have to get it. All I have to know is that you can't go wrong by celebrating special occasions with a vase full of neatly arranged roses, orchids, and carnations. Flowers are a fool-proof way to say "I love you."
ProFlowers knows this, of course, and wants to help you out. The online flower shop contacted me with a generous Valentines Day offer for my readers.
I have five, yes I said FIVE, ProFlowers gift certificates to give away!
Each one is worth $70, and is good for any item in their extensive online catalog. They not only have flowers, but also plants, candy, and romantic gifts for both men and women.
All you have to do to win one of these $70 gift certificates is to leave a comment here, telling me your favorite way to celebrate Valentine's Day (keep it family-friendly).
At the end of the week, I'll pick five lucky winners at random.
UPDATE: This contest is now over. Thanks!
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66 Comments:
A nice dinner out with just the two of us. Basic, but good.
I see we see Valentine's Day much in the same way.
The Mrs. and I usually hang out together, watch a movie, read books in bed...nothing we wouldn't do any other day of the year. We tend to mock the commercial, man-made nature of this "holiday". That being said, the Mrs. does enjoy a nice flower arrangement. I surprise her with such goodies on random days because I don't need a calendar to tell me when to show my wife a lot of love.
I love making Valentine cards with the kids and spending time on making a special card for my husband. If the two of us get to go out to eat, it's a bonus. :) I do love getting flowers, but the best thing is being so loved.
The three of us go to dessert at the restaurant where I proposed to my wife, Desirie, on Valentine's day 2001.
Three? Yes, my step-daughter accompanies us. It's kinda why we only do dessert. Ashley is a picky eater, but she loves cheese cake, and the Chef puts cream on the plate with cherry syrup hearts. Ashley was 11 when her mom and I got engaged. Now's she's 19 and this is the one time of year she looks forward to going out in public with her "parental units".
My favorite way to spend that day is with my kids and husband. We had a newborn one year and I'll be very very pregnant this year so the kids come with the day. It's all good though, there's lots of snuggling.
I have the best VDay celebrations every year, thanks to the wife working her way through college in a florists shop.
We DON'T!
The woman still has flashbacks to the craziness at the shop, so I have been threatened with bodily harm if I buy VDay flowers or presents.
Good with me, for sure!
Well seeing as Im on me own, then it will have to be eating heart shaped handmade chocolates from Thorntons the chocolate shop :)....
If I wasnt on me own it would be a nice meal in a country pub, not anything to posh, I dont do posh...... Im also a strong believer in sending blokes flowers to :).....
and just cos I live in Jolly England dont mean I cant be included in the draw lol....... I have tons of maties I would love to send flowers to that live in doodleland.....
PS...... its snowed here today, the worst in 18 years and more to come tonight :) - had a flock of mooses turn up in me back garden...
x
Dinner out -- for us, that itself is a one or twice a year special event. And I tend to get chocolates and flowers, because that is, after all, what she likes best.
Sadly, the place where I proposed is long gone. But we have red wine and gingerbread if we can find it, just like we did that fateful night.
We do something earlier or later than the actual date. Nothing about going out on one of the busiest nights of the year appeals to us.
Oh yeah, we also fill out dozens and dozens of preschool valentines cards. In return, we get the best candy from whatever comes home.
My favorite way to spend Valentine's Day is to make it a big deal with the children as our Valentines. It's important for me to show my children how you should take time every once and awhile to celebrate the ones you love. I get something small and fun for my son and daughter. We usually get the heart shaped pizzas you mentioned because in our house, it's not special until there's pizza. And usually there is a "craft" involved. I just pulled out all of the previous year's crafts and I got sooo nostalgic. For some reason, the Valentine crafts are a bigger deal to me than the Christmas crafts. Maybe because the only decorating for V Day is simply what the kids make or give. PapaJD and I have never been into the "romance" of Valentine's Day. But I can't help but feel blessed for the love we celebrate as a family on Valentine's. I think it's because of all the hearts hanging around.
Our favorite way to celebrate Valentine's Day is to entertain other couples. Our church has a Sweetheart Dinner, and we are the entertainment. We perform some sketches and songs, and help make it a special night for 20 or so couples. We always enjoy "spreading the love" that way.
I write my wife a handwritten letter and make her a mixtape, however now a days that would be a compact disc or playlist. It started off with mixtapes long ago in our courting years.
My husband and I have made it a tradition to go to a card store, pick out the card we like for the other, give the cards to each other, read them, say how sweet/funny/romantic they are, then put them back on the rack. Then if we go out for dinner any time around that day, we spend the $8-$10 we saved on appetizers. The actual day we usually spend with the kids watching movies or playing games.
My father passed away two days before valentines so my traditional valentine's day is spent with my Mom. I usually buy her something special to keep and we'll go out to lunch or she'll come over for dinner. Whenever my husband gets a day off after valentine's he'll usually take me out to eat. And I like to buy each kid a small candy filled heart because that's what my Dad did for me.
My favorite way to spend Valentine's day is to go out to eat -- a nice long lingering dinner with appetizers, cocktails, desert, coffee, the works. I don't think we've done that since waaay before kids. :)
I know it's usually crowded, but I love going out to eat, just the two of us, no kids. We try to go earlier in the evening to avoid the crowds.
shel704 at aol dot com
money is tight and really I get the after clearance candy but what do we do to celebrate- we save money- we eat in and watch a movie- kids and all or watch Valentines cartoons with the kids
What a nice offer from Proflower!!
May the best entry win. We .. we don't celebrate it, everyday for us should be a valentine's day! :-)
Does that count because I do like flowers too.
I love to take a drive in the mountains with a large diet soda and my sweet hubby of 34 years. He is my peace and I am never more at rest than when we are together.
We like to do something we've never done before. Go someplace new for dinner, or a town we've never been to, walk somewhere, it's nice to explore together. Thanks.
lkziegler[at]gmail[dot]com
My favorite thing to do is to make and decorate heart shaped cookies with the kids and have them make cards for their Dad.
Ok Ok, if I was truely honest...... I would be spending the day in bed with someone special :) lol
X
A nice (home cooked) dinner and a movie on the couch!
a trip to sun valley, with a one-night stay at the sun valley lodge, a sleigh ride, and dinner in the trail creek cabin. breakfasting the next morning at the kneadery! that would make this girl happy!!!
flora
I love to write lots of little notes and hide them in unexpected places.
Then, too, make the favorite sweet thing and have it ready at the end of the day. :)
alaskawildrose AT gmail DOT com
Of course I want to be included, as I usually try and buy my wife flowers every couple of weeks during the entire year, not just Valentine's day. We both love flowers and in the winter months they are especially welcome. I hope you have been well and maybe sometime this spring or summer you could visit with the kids. The Stickman
I love to have a fun night in with my sweetie.
Phil- We just spent a quiet evening at home cooking our favorite meal. Everyday for the past 40 years has been Valentine's Day for us. I feel I am blessed each day.
If I was lucky enough to get one of your flower gift certificates, I would share the flowers with as many residents at a Life Care Center in Coeur d' Alene. Sometimes these elderly people are forgotten and a flower can bring back a special memory or time for them. Plus, the true personal reward in giving them a flower and sitting down and talking to them is a true act of kindness.
I don't do flowers on V-Day. Instead I like to surprise my wife with spontaneous flower giving through out the year. Instead, she likes to go out to a romantical dinner.
I've been trying to come up with a really unique way to celebrate Valentine's Day this year, but so far nothing has struck me with the 'wow' factor. We just spent 5 days living in candlelight, but it was due to a freakish ice storm that robbed us of electricity and heat. So candles are definitely out this year...
Our church has a special service to renew wedding vows and then has a dinner and dance.
Some years, the money's just not there to do much for Valentine's Day. We've super-enjoyed an evening at home, having a homemade spaghetti dinner at the dining room table with candle light and soft music. It's the time together that matters the most!
I like going out for crab legs. It's fun to just pick at the crabs and laugh with the family.
My wife and I would normally make dinner together and stay in, to avoid all of the commercial-ness of the day, and the busy restaurants. We LOVE to cook together and enjoy making the food just as much as we enjoy eating it.
This year will be different, however. We've now got a 1 year old, so she'll be involved. We'll make a dinner that she can eat too and the 3 of us will sit down to dinner together and enjoy our new family's first Val Day together.
My favorite way to celebrate at home with a nice bottle of wine and a movie to curl up on the couch to cuddle!
hubby usually gives me flowers and takes me out to dinner!
I'll probably make a heart shaped batch of brownies and share them with whoever comes around.
Nobody will send me flowers boo hoo
I make dinner for my wife at home. And we make hand-made cards for one another. My wife saves the cards from past years, even from when we were dating and engaged and we look at them together, remembering how much we have changed and how much we haven't changed. It provides perspective, makes us feel good.
A nice dinner and a movie - but this year we have a newborn, so a nice dinner and a DVD at home.
thanks
bf2phoenix at gmail dot com
We go out for a fancy brunch with up to eleven other couples on the Sunday nearest Valentine's Day - all have been married 20 years plus. Our kids grew up together and we love to celebrate the whatevers of life!
We usually trade off cooking the other's favorite meal. A nice bottle of red wine (good for the heart, you know), conversation, perhaps a movie. But just being with the one I love is gift enough.
Chatterbox
LOVE JETTY ISLAND!!!
My favorite way to celebrate Valentine's Day is to take a drive along the coast up to the place we had our first date over a decade ago.
kr@roadrunner(dot)com
I feel like my comment should state my best Valentine memory. A couple of years ago I was dating this wonderful girl. I was going to school full time and making minimum wage so I couldn't afford much but I was able to make her day. I invited this girl to my house. I went to Wal Mart and bought a bunch of red construction paper. I cut out little hearts from the paper with witty, sweet sayings including a bigger one saying "The Love Shack" and placed them around the front door. After entering there was a big heart saying "Welcome to Valentine's Treasure Hunt". It stated the first clue to the next cut out heart. I had her going back and forth all over the house till she reached the last clue. It was a box with a ring and a tiny heart inside asking her to marry me. She said yes. Then we followed up with a dinner I cooked for her with candlelights and a table covered with flowers, candy and a stuffed bear. We are still married and have two beautiful children. I want to be as creative and spontaneous every year to make her feel as special as I did that day.
My kids get me flowers (with help from Dad) AND they make me an awesome art project. (The kids and I make cards for Dad, too!) My parents go out for dinner, then come home and watch the kids and we go out for dinner. (Or sometimes we go out first.) We go to a wonderful Japanese restaurant.
We like to exchange cards and cuddles. It is too hard to go out with young kids at home but we don't mind, we are family and we are blessed.
We aren't big fans of dealing with the huge crowds at restaurants so I make a fancy 5 course meal at home and we exchange homemade cards.
thanks for the giveaway!
Fortunately, Valentine's Day falls on a Saturday this year. I go out with a regular Saturday-night group of (unattached) friends. It'll make Valentine's Day much more fun this year to spend the evening with old pals.
Love this giveaway. Thanks!
I'd have to say that Big Bear and I like to stay home and cuddle by the fireplace with the kids and watch a movie. That's my favorite thing to do on Valentines - is just spend it with my Valentine.
Susan
http://www.raisin-toast.com
My favorite way to celebrate valentines is, I would buy my girlfriend roses chocolate and a card. Then sneak up behind her and give them to her. Then we go hang out, maybe go to a restaurant and have a walk around the park. Then We go to the grass and Surprise her with a special gift i got her :] That's how we celebrate our valentines
Dinner at a nice restaurant.
A nice night out without the kids!!
We like to stay in and just spend time together. Our lives are pretty fast paced, so on V day we slow it down - no answering the phones, no fighting crowded restuarants, just a nice dinner at home together.
addeviant006[at]gmail[dot]com
I've loved reading all the responses on this post. Excellent!
Well, this in only my third Valentines with my husband. We were married on Feb 10th, so the first one was spent on out honeymoon...I had two massage therapists come to our hotel, it was fabulous! Last year we were home with our 15 day old son and this year I'm pregnant! So...I am thinking a nice dinner with no baby would be ideal! Thanks!
Dinner and a movie at home- nice and simple
pestkaj(att)yahooo(dot)com
I just would like to see my husband, he's deployed right now. If he was here, we'd spend a relaxing evening at home with a great meal and a good movie
My favorite way to celebrate Valentine's Day is dinner and a movie and of course flowers and chocolates!
Thank you!
janetfaye (at) gmail (dot) com
I don't have a significant other. But, I have something better. I have a wonderful son. We always celebrate by going to Hallmark together and taking turns going into the store and buying each other cards. (I give him a five and he goes in alone).
We always have a spaghetti dinner which we both prepare.
I know it doesn't sound like much but it shows my son you don't need a lot of money and that simple things can make a world of a difference.
We love to go out to dinner then go to the movies or just snuggle up on the couch with a good movie.
My favorite is just spending some time together...even if it is just sitting at home rough housing with the kids.
The past few years we have joined four other couples for a lobster dinner at home. We order the lobster tails, and crab legs, and have wine by candlelight. We enjoy sharing Valentines with our significant others and our best friends.
luckyme51 at sbcglobal dot net
We usually have a special dinner in. We spend time preparing it together. Then we will watch a movie. This is a great way to spend a special evening.
My favorite way to spend valentine's day is to let my husband know just how much he means to me. I usually give him a backrub and a pedicure. i fix him beakfast in bed and a nice massage. Those of course are the family friendly things I can mention. Trust me doing things for him are very rewarding for me too.
teechbiz at gmail.com
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