When Valentine's Day meant...

When Valentine's Day meant giving your entire class a mini Valentine's card with Pooh and Piglet or Mickey and Minnie on the front and a piece of candy that most often was a heart shaped lollipop.

When Valentine's Day meant taking a regular piece of paper, folding it in half, and writing a roses are red poem followed by I love you written at the end with about a hundred exclamation points after it... because back then my mother told me that all the exclamation points meant that was the indicator of how much I loved her.

Before cable television became really big, and commercials and advertisements ruined this love filled day...
Before life became complicated and it became more than just giving a box of chocolates or sweethearts to someone who made you smile and giggle.

It's not about gifts and spending tons of money...
Although, the creativity does make the difference...
Like when someone gives you a box, and inside is the world.

Or when someone bakes your favorite cake and carves it into a heart...

And you know that those things that they do sprung from their love...their unconditional and positively never-changing, never-ending love.

We remind ourselves of what Valentine's Day meant before, and hope that it can still be about creativity and throughtfulness, unconditional love and sweetness.