S/O Valentine's Day

[sassypantzz]

If you are celebrating Valentine's with your S/O, what are you doing this year.  Last year was rough for us, so I really want to make a show of it this year.  I want him to really feel special and like I didn't just buy a card on my way home. (I have a tendency to have the stereotypical "husband" complex and he is the opposite where he needs me to show him more..we are odd, but it works for us)  What are you doing?  Any grand ideas? Or what was the best VDay you have ever had?

[lucilleaustero]

Okay, we don't do Valentine's Day. But, we do these sporadic date celebration thingies that are awesome and romantic and personal.

Put the kids bed, cook a yunny dinner together, have some drinks. No phones, no tv, no tablets, fire in the fireplace is a bonus. We have "talking points". We talk about how journey together since our last check in and we talk about our hopes for the future, what we want to accomplish as a family, as a couple, and as individuals. We look through old photos to reconnect to who we were before kids and we each choose one activity that we want to do together, just the two of us, over the next month or so.

Corny? Yes. But, it helps us focus on the good and remember why we chose to do this together.

[lucilleaustero]

I do not know what a yunny dinner is, but it is definitely not as good as a yummy dinner.

[sassypantzz]

Jan 29, 2015 16:55:21 GMT -5 lucilleaustero said:

Okay, we don't do Valentine's Day. But, we do these sporadic date celebration thingies that are awesome and romantic and personal.

Put the kids bed, cook a yunny dinner together, have some drinks. No phones, no tv, no tablets, fire in the fireplace is a bonus. We have "talking points". We talk about how journey together since our last check in and we talk about our hopes for the future, what we want to accomplish as a family, as a couple, and as individuals. We look through old photos to reconnect to who we were before kids and we each choose one activity that we want to do together, just the two of us, over the next month or so.

Corny? Yes. But, it helps us focus on the good and remember why we chose to do this together.

I honestly think this is beautiful.  I would absolutely love to do something like this.  I especially like the looking through the old photos to see where we have been and why we are here.  THANKS!

[angelashly]

We never really go out. Last year he went to the local meat market got good steaks, wine, and baking potatoes. He made me fried shrimp too. The main thing was he did all the cooking and planning. He surprised me which I loved because he never does that. I also got flowers and we watched movie. Then just hung out and talked. It was one of my favorite valentines day in all 13 we have spent together. Can you do that?


I hope we do this again last year.

[kendraj426]

We usually just stay in on Valentine's day, but this year with our new LO, we are changing it up. On Valentine's day I plan to make him one of his favorite dinners - Meat Pies & Sausage Rolls, and his favorite treat - Scottish Tablet. Then the Saturday after, my sister is baby sitting and we are going to to a nice romantic dinner just the two of us. Around here unless you have a reservation at least a month in advance there is no way you are getting into a nice restaurant on V-Day especially with it being on a Saturday this year, so we decided to celebrate a week later. And of course I will get him a sappy card.

[bonzo2012]

Our dating anniversary is the week before, so while dating we always just did one nice date the weekend between.

Since being married, we have both been really busy in February, so we alternate years saying how we would like to celebrate and then the other person makes it happen sometime in the next year. In 2013 it was really fun to tell people in July that we were going out for Valentine's Day! I failed at making DH's Valentine's Day happen for 2014, but it's partly his fault for accepting this job in another state, since what he wanted was a weekend in San Luis Obispo, where we went to college

This year, we do have tickets to see Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella that weekend, so we'll probably do a nice dinner downtown before the show. Maybe it's Valentine's Day, maybe not. But it will be a fun date, and I think that's what matters way more than a specific day.

[kendraj426]

I'd have to say the best Valentine's Day I've ever had was the first one with DH (when we were first dating). I took him to the NYC Comic Con. It was a week before Valentine's Day. He was totally floored that I thought of doing that for him, and I was so excited that I was able to give him that experience. It's one day that neither of us will ever forget!

[nettje]

We normally don't do V-day either. But this year because my mom will be in town and able to watch our munchkin, I'm thinking of getting tickets to the Indiana Jones exhibition that our science centre is hosting. Maybe do dinner but I'm not sure yet. It'll be busy everywhere for dinner so we may just make it a night at the science centre.

[wesleycrusher]

Valentines day is my birthday. I told DH that the perfect day would be for me to not see him or DD all day and I could relax alone. It probably won't happen.

[things]

Having a sound board added to his light saber hilt. And dark chocolate covered strawberries for both of us.

[goldenbird]

I'll probably be at work until 10pm that day, so we won't be doing anything that day most likely.
We will exchange cards and he'll get me flowers and we will go out to dinner that week or the week after. Nothing special.

[goldenbird]

Though DH first told me he loved me on valentine's day 2010 so I always remember that and feel warm and fuzzy. We were just dating at the time and it was unexpected and sweet.

[theseaword]

We'll probably stay in this year. DH will probably grill steaks and I'll make a cheesecake. We've always celebrated Valentine's, but it's not one of our big days. Tends to just be dinner (in or out, depending on the year) and small gifts.

[inaya]

We don't usually do much, but I always make MH a card. We started dating in high school, and he first told me he liked me by giving me a card he'd made on Valentine's Day. It's just a little thing but it means something special to both of us.

[ShtsNGiggles]

I convinced dh to go paint pottery this year. I wanted to do something besides just go get dinner. We will be getting BW3s before,which was his choice.

DH and his brother have basketball tickets together. There is a game on Valentine's day and dh let his brother have his ticket so he could take his girlfriend. I'm sure me bitching about that game and the one on my birthday afew days later had nothing to do with his decision.

[daometjing]

We don't do Valentine's Day, but my husband's birthday is 4 days later. We have been talking about doing a staycation. Getting a hotel in town, going out for a nice dinner, and leaving the baby with his parents.