Valentines Day?

I never understood Valentines Day... It is such a commercialized holiday I really don't care for it.. I try my best not to make a big deal of it. I buy a card for my husband and tell him not to get me anything. Not that I don't mind chocolates like any normal female out there.. but I would rather him think of buying me my favorite chocolates on his own without having a holiday reminding him I like them. It actually means more to me when he does. I like flowers but would rather have a new plant or rose to plant outside.. cut flowers just don't last and seems such a shame. I guess I'm really not romantic either because I don't care to be taken to a restaurant and treated to a candle lit dinner.. it just seems so cheesy. Take me to our favorite restaurant instead.. the one with my favorite dessert (Tiramisu)...  Because of all the hype and the pressure the kids put on their peers I feel obligated to buy my daughters Valentines presents and send it to school. Your apparently not cool if you don't have this done. I don't remember ever getting a gift sent to school except for one time I was dating one boy and he sent me 2 dozen roses to school. I was shocked and a tad embarrassed... even now thinking back I can't believe someone would waste that much money on some cut flowers. I know I am not the only person out there to feel this way about Valentines Day... and I know I'm not the only woman to say don't get me anything and actually mean it. But those poor men, they were trained from childhood to always get momma, sister, wife, and daughter a gift EVEN and ESPECIALLY if she says 'don't get me anything' because we supposedly don't mean it.. and their are those few women out there that DO say this and actually don't mean it and the guys get in trouble and make it harder on us who actually DO mean it. But when they do we accept it graciously (I hope) and with a loving smile because those sweet clueless men in our lives have tried to make us happy and make us smile. And in their way let us know they think about us and love us still after how ever long its been for you.. for me its been almost 16 years. But you have to admit its those little treats that mean the most. Like when they come home after they know you had a bad day with your favorite root beer float from your favorite place.. or your favorite coffee from Starbucks.. or even your favorite candy just because they were there and seen it and thought of you. THOSE are the times when it really means I love you.. when they didn't have a holiday to remind them to tell us. And now I sit here and wonder.. do I show him I love him in those same small ways... hmm will have to sit and think a while. Until next time.... Happy Valentines Day