Valentine's Day #6

My husband makes my heart smile

Valentine’s Day is always a day full of pressure and stress. There are usually high expectations on Valentine’s Day. Having high hopes means that if things go wrong, that’s a long hard fall that your hopes take. In the 5 years that have passed, I have been the girl with high hopes for Valentine’s Day. My man is a romantic so he always was on point J but any little glitch in our plans would set me off into a “my whole days ruined” mood.

This year was different. We are different. We are trying to adopt this minimalist, non-attached, yogic lifestyle. I didn’t want to get my hopes high. I didn’t want to expect anything. And neither did Juan.

This is our 6^th valentines together. I am happy to say that Juan is my most favorite person in the world. I still like him and want to spend every waking minute with him. When he is gone at work or at school, I seriously can’t wait til he gets out so we can hang. I love him of course but I fell like it is just as important that I like him. Like-like him. I love kissing him. I love that we need to control our kissing or we’ll get carried away ;) He drives me insane and gets on my nerves. But I like him. So it’s okay.

Okay back to Valentine’s Day. Both of the kids are sick so we all woke up at 5 am to whines, cries, coughs… Noah was also upset that his blankey was in the dryer. And Elijah is on a nebulizer every 4 hours. Needless to say, having sick kids on Valentine’s Day is difficult. I went back to sleep with Elijah after he was settled and medicated. Juan stayed up with Noah watching Madagascar 3. We all love that movie!

Juan woke me up telling me that Noah had an accident in the bathroom and that I needed to some see. Gross, I know. I told him no. why in the world would I want to see? He did that on daddy’s watch so its daddy’s mess to clean up, right? So Juan wrestled me out of bed, literally. I walked into the bathroom and he had drawn hearts and wrote all over the mirrors and counter what he loved about me. It was cute and I was honestly surprised! Now 3 days later, I can still see it in the counter because it was all done in my red lipstick. Fyi: Don’t do that. Use post its or something elseJ

That night we put the kids to bed early. It was a battle. Noah skipped his nap but man oh man he still did not want to go to bed. And the end of it we were frustrated and tired. We still tried to enjoy Valentine’s Day together now that we were alone. We had seafood, chocolate covered strawberries and watched a movie and then fell asleep on the living room floor. That was it.

Maybe it would not have been so frustrating if we did have an expectation of trying to make it a special day. It truly is a day like any other. Society has made us believe it should be the one day we show our loved ones we care. Love should be shown every day.

That was our valentine’s day #6. It was special in a much more meaningful way. I had a great day with my boys.