No Valentine's

Valentine's day is one of those "holidays" that I never really thought too much about even when  I was in school and we used to pass out and get Valentines on Valentines day. We never had a party though when I was in school. We would make little mail boxes and attach them on the back of our chairs and sometime during the school day the teacher would pause and we would pass them out to each other putting them in our little home made mail boxes. So, that was probably that for the most part for my celebrations when I was younger. When I got a little older I would buy my mom some chocolate candy in a heart shaped box and she share it with me and my siblings and that would be that. I would get the candy and my sister would get the card. When I got to high school and got my first boyfriend he really didn't give me anything. We would talk about it but he never gave me a thing in the 3 years we were together. But, he did write me love letters throughout the year so I guess it sort of evened things out a bit. One year he asked if I wanted to wear his class ring for Valentines day. I declined because I was not going to be responsible if something happened to it and even though most of the other girls at school were wearing something of their boyfriends like a chain around their neck with the boy's class ring dangling on the end of it or their boyfriend's football jackets  I never did. I doubt that besides my best friend if anyone knew I had a boyfriend. I didn't advertise it and thank goodness social media was still in the distant future back then. 

I did meet one of my exes on Valentines day about 30 years ago. That disaster of a relationship didn't work out and it kind of put a damper on the day for me and since then I never really did much for that day whether I was dating someone or not. Funny my dates often felt the same way. 

Now, usually, I do get my mom a small box of candy and some kind of card and since my son has been born I get him a little something too but this year since my mom has had her health problems and I have not been getting out much except for my occasional store walks and such I didn't get the chance to go to the dollar store like I had planned to pick up a couple of small boxes of candy and maybe some other V-day trinkets for them so this year I literally had nothing on that day. We just had a regular  Sunday. We didn't even say too much about it and on Facebook I scrolled past a few post of what "my man got me for Valentines day" I was happy for them but really after 500 posts I was more then done with seeing any more posts of love for one day. 

So, today I needed some kind of sugar. I haven't had anything sweet for a while and so at the store they still had Valentine's day cupcakes and for half price. You couldn't beat that. So, although I didn't officially

 celebrate Valentine's day yesterday I am doing my own after the day celebration and eating cupcakes. Which is just as sweet.