Why Valentine's Day Isn't Just For Lovers

I always get kind of miffed at Valentine's Day because of the detractors, the #FOREVERALONE people who can't seem to see that love isn't just romantic. Love is familial, and platonic and everything in degrees from that gentle feeling of caring for someone to full blown love romance. Valentine's Day can be what you make it.

Why would you ever choose to MAKE a day something negative?

At our house, it's a day to remember to celebrate how much we love each other. We give candy and small snuggly gifts (and sometimes Mommy gets a pretty piece of jewelry but sometimes not) and we take a day just to say, we are a family and we love each other.

It's a reminder to celebrate the fact that you do in fact have people in your life that you love.

After we open our presents, and maybe have a piece of chocolate or two or four or six, we always like to head out for a dinner to celebrate who we are as a family. There's really only ever one place that will do.

Where else can we play skeeball and eat pizza and shoot zombies and dance with Chucki E ? Really, this is the spot.

So next year, when it's Valentine's day, if you're lamenting that you don't have that perfect romantic evening, remember this. Love is what you make it. It might be an evening of video games at Chuck E Cheese. Or a night out with your other single friends. Or bowling. Or trying a new tapas restaurant. Valentine's Day can be anything you want it to be.

I wouldn't have mine any other way. Because, in the end...love the you take is equal to the love you make.

John and Paul were always right about that you know.
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