Love and Be Loved

Well it's not really my normal day for posting, but I just had a thought and wanted to share anyway!  As you all know, tomorrow is Valentine's Day.  A day that's supposed to be all about love and showing your loved ones how much you care about them.  For the most part I've always liked Valentine's Day (perhaps just because it's 3 days away from my birthday), but mostly just because I think Valentine's stuff is so cute!  Flowers, chocolates, adorably useless fuzzy stuffed animals, yummy treats, and of course people everywhere going out of their comfort zone to try and tell someone they like them.  It's just cute!

So this year will be the first Valentine's that I'm actually with someone.  Sure I've gotten Valentines in the past from friends, but I've spent every other V-day of my life as a single lady.  There were definitely some years where I felt more like calling it Singles Awareness Day, but there have also been times when I've had tons of fun just being myself or hanging out with friends.

Our eyes look crazy...but we're still cute!

Valentine's Day my junior year of college consisted of my best friend and I dressing up in obnoxious amounts of pink and red, making ourselves a fancy dinner complete with candles on the table, and having a couple other friends over for chocolate lava cake.  We were both single at the time, but we didn't want to waste our whole day moping!  Why not make a day of it just because?  You can love yourself on Valentine's Day, too.

OR you can make someone else's day, even if it's a complete stranger.  By far I think my favorite V-day activity was one year when I was home from college and helped make deliveries for a local floral shop.  It's one of the busiest days of the year for them, of course.  So I got up early and spent the entire day driving around town and back and forth from the shop with a car full of flowers.  And it was actually really fun!  The best deliveries were going into businesses and hearing the teasing and heckling for the floral recipient as soon as I said their name.  It was so fun to see how surprised and happy people were that someone thought enough of them to spend way too much money to have flowers delivered.  So what did I do on my favorite Valentine's day?  I served!  It was so much fun, and it made me happy to see others happy.  I would highly recommend it to anyone, single or not.

Of course, what you decide to do is completely up to you.  Whether you're loving yourself or showing your love to someone else, also don't forget about how much you are loved by your friends, family, and your Heavenly Father.  So by all means, go spend the day with someone you love...I know I will be! :)