Our Valentine's Day

There were high hopes set for us newlyweds this year as everyone asked how we would spend our first Valentine's Day together. Sorry to disappoint, but we opted out of the typical day. We spent a few evenings throwing around different ideas, but everything fell short of what we thought the day should be about.

When Nathan arrived home (around 2:45pm) from work we immediately decided we absolutely had to tackle the pile of dishes that had formed. Our work schedules have been really crazy lately with him waking me up for five minutes after arriving home at 9:45pm to say "Hi" and me getting up and leaving for work at 7:45am. Needless to say, dishes had not been on our immediate agenda. He washed the dishes while I scrubbed the refrigerator. We joked about how entertaining this scenario looked and had a chance to discuss our day and just enjoyed being together.

After really reflecting on this, we realized that we don't need the commercial aspects of Valentine's Day. This day should merely reflect the love you have for one another all year long. The flowers, the dinners, and the chocolate (this one might be debatable) may be a wonderful gesture, but it's the memories that will last. How did we spend our first Valentine's Day?? We washed dishes and cleaned out the refrigerator and it couldn't have been more perfect!