Non traditional Family

As most of you know, or don't know, I guess it depends on how well you know me, know that my family does not celebrate a lot of holidays. In fact the only thing we do celebrate is our birthdays and I guess Thanksgiving. On holidays that everyone does celebrate we get together to spend time with family and enjoy company. I won't go into all the details of why we don't because it could take forever.


Today is valentines day. We don't celebrate it.. in fact we didn't celebrate it today, we did nothing out of the ordinary. I do not need for giant corporations to tell me that I need to spend money on my family/friends today for them to know I care. I show that I care in several different ways all through out the year!

Now onto another pet peeve of valentines day.... why does everyone dog on men for going out the night before and the day of Valentines to get flowers. If we did celebrate, that is what I would do. Why? Because I wouldn't want to give someone wilted flowers, I would want them to look fresh and pretty. Maybe those guys didn't forget it was valentines, maybe they are smarter than you realize and actually thought "hey if I get flowers tonight or tomorrow morning, they will look better than if I bought them a week in advance." whatever. end rant  there.

Onto another issue I have: If you guy does something special for you, don't complain. period end of story. I don't care if he didn't do it to your standards. be grateful he did anything at all. Tell him Thank you and you appreciate it!  Stop being a brat about it. Men's brains are not wired like women's. We are different.

I guess I will get off my soapbox now.

Now go out and celebrate, appreciate and love everyone ALL year long and show it ALL year long. Not just one day.