Valentines day is lame--but anyone give/get cool stuff?

[girlyglam]

Oh my goodness, Lovedogs - those portraits are beautiful! It makes me want to get one of my own furbaby!

It was our first Valentine's day as husband and wife, and I got very standard Valentine's day gifts - chocolate and lingerie. But, my favorite part was the card...it had a picture of a bear on it (one of my favorite animals) and the sweetest hand-written message. DH does tell me he loves me and is affectionate, but he's not really a feelings guy or a note/letter writing guy. The fact that he took the time to write me a message and express how he feels was truly the best gift.

I, in turn, kind of failed this year. I am usually ALL about the hand-written messages in cards, but I didn't even have a card for him this year. Valentine's day really snuck up on me this year and I was scrambling to get his gift together. He's a caffeine fiend so I got him a Dunkin Donuts gift card (his favorite) and a bag of specialty coffee that is supposed to have twice the amount of caffeine as regular coffee.

 

[december-fire]

Love this thread; the portraits, the puppies and the stories.

I'm one of those silly people who saves cards from people I love. The wonderful man in my life, however, tends to 'declutter' by tossing out birthday and Christmas cards right after the occasion.

This year, he gave me a beautiful card, a dozen red roses, chocolates, etc.; things he's done before. But he shocked me, in a wonderful way, by giving me a box that contained some of the letters I mailed him years ago when we lived about 2,000 miles apart. Included in the letters was a Valentine's Day card I'd made for him in 2007. It meant a lot to see that he'd kept those things - for 10 years!

 

[lovedogs]

Love this thread; the portraits, the puppies and the stories.

I'm one of those silly people who saves cards from people I love. The wonderful man in my life, however, tends to 'declutter' by tossing out birthday and Christmas cards right after the occasion.

This year, he gave me a beautiful card, a dozen red roses, chocolates, etc.; things he's done before. But he shocked me, in a wonderful way, by giving me a box that contained some of the letters I mailed him years ago when we lived about 2,000 miles apart. Included in the letters was a Valentine's Day card I'd made for him in 2007. It meant a lot to see that he'd kept those things - for 10 years!

Thanks, everyone, for sharing your stories and your kind words about my fur babies! December-fire: that is ADORABLE! Wow, what a sweet guy.

 

[Calliecake]

Love this thread; the portraits, the puppies and the stories.

I'm one of those silly people who saves cards from people I love. The wonderful man in my life, however, tends to 'declutter' by tossing out birthday and Christmas cards right after the occasion.

This year, he gave me a beautiful card, a dozen red roses, chocolates, etc.; things he's done before. But he shocked me, in a wonderful way, by giving me a box that contained some of the letters I mailed him years ago when we lived about 2,000 miles apart. Included in the letters was a Valentine's Day card I'd made for him in 2007. It meant a lot to see that he'd kept those things - for 10 years!

Oh my gosh how sweet of your husband! After 25 years of being married I was surprised a few years ago when I found some of the cards my husband had saved. He does not like clutter and tends to throw stuff out too so I can imagine you were very surprised. What a wonderful gift he gave you.

 

[december-fire]

lovedogs,

Yes, he's a great guy.

Now I feel the need to 'fess up to how terrible I am. The weather forecast called for lots of snow, so Saturday he picked me up at my house instead of me driving to his house. That meant my car was at home in my garage instead of parked in his driveway (because the man has more than one vehicle and there's no room for my car in his garage). We had snow followed by more snow, interspersed with me feeling lazy and just wanting to lie around the house, so I didn't even get out to pick up a card for him. I thought about it a couple of times, usually when he was napping (he's an early riser and sometimes takes a nap, whereas I'm more inclined to sleep a bit later and not nap), but I didn't have my car and wasn't going to take his without asking. (I could tell you that I prefer driving my own car, but then you'd know I'm a really terrible person. )

So, Valentine's Day, I woke up to the smell of breakfast cooking (yup, he always cooks for me), and roses, card, chocolates, the box of letters, and I didn't even have a card for him. Yes, I could have taken a piece of paper and scribbled 'I love you' on it but, nope, didn't even do that.

So, yeah, guess he won't be posting anything here about what he got this year!

 

[december-fire]

Love this thread; the portraits, the puppies and the stories.

I'm one of those silly people who saves cards from people I love. The wonderful man in my life, however, tends to 'declutter' by tossing out birthday and Christmas cards right after the occasion.

This year, he gave me a beautiful card, a dozen red roses, chocolates, etc.; things he's done before. But he shocked me, in a wonderful way, by giving me a box that contained some of the letters I mailed him years ago when we lived about 2,000 miles apart. Included in the letters was a Valentine's Day card I'd made for him in 2007. It meant a lot to see that he'd kept those things - for 10 years!

Oh my gosh how sweet of your husband! After 25 years of being married I was surprised a few years ago when I found some of the cards my husband had saved. He does not like clutter and tends to throw stuff out too so I can imagine you were very surprised. What a wonderful gift he gave you.

Yes, he's wonderful.

He's 'the man in my life' (we're not teenagers so I don't like the word 'boyfriend'), but we're not married or living together.

When he moved here a few years ago, he bought his own home for him and his son. I already had my own home with my children. We didn't want to rush things with the kids or tell them 'Like each other! We're all forced to live under one roof!'

Its been a long-term, stable wonderful relationship (despite my terrible behaviour - see above and lack of even a card for him this year), and the kids consider each other to be 'step-siblings'. My daughter refers to him as her 'step-father' and my son feels the same way.

That's so great that your DH saved some of your letters. Even though there may be a 'tough guy' exterior, there can be a heart of gold within.

 

[Calliecake]

December Fire, Your post on what you did for him had me LOL. You aren't alone if that makes you feel any better. After all these years we usually buy cards and I could say we go out to dinner for Valentines Day on a night around Valentines Day. Which is kind of crazy to even say because we go out to dinner all the time. He bought me 2 cards from him and 3 cards from the furbaby. I felt so guilty because I had forgotten to buy cards for him. I had a hair appointment that evening and stopped at a drug story to buy him a card before I got home. He read the card and started laughing saying "So you bought the cards tonight, didn't you?" Don't ever try to buy cards on Valentines Day! He said an "I love you" on a post it would have been better, so I gave him that too!

You sound like a very lucky woman to have him and a blended group of wonderful kids in your life!

 

[Alybetter]

My husband does not care for holidays. He's gone about 1/2 the time anyhow for work, so we miss most of them as a complete family. I also don't personally care too much about them one way or the other; I do the fun ones like Easter, Christmas, and Halloween for my son. Otherwise meh. We're boring To me, family traditions are much more interesting.
But I always get myself something awesome from him on Valentines. And because he's so awesome, he always lets me. This year it was a project diamond, but that doesn't happen every year...