Because I love him every day

I have a love/hate relationship with Valentine's Day. I'm one of those people who believe you should show your love for your significant other everyday, but I also think taking the day to go out of your way to do something special is sweet too. Nevertheless, I am just not a flower kind of girl. I think they are a waste of money because they die and eventually become another thing I have to clean up. Shelly will remember that I am not so good about throwing away my bouquet of flowers once they have passed their prime...the smell is terrible. However, Jordan knows the way to a girl's heart better than I even do. Yesterday morning, I woke up to him standing by my bed holding two roses, a bucket of my two favorite chocolate candies (Reese's and Milky Way) and a card.

Ok, so maybe I liked the roses....

The rest of the day was simple. I cleaned my bathroom and folded some laundry while he went home to nap and play his video games. I had planned to cook him a Stromboli for dinner, but we decided that we didn't want to spend the money for a meal when we already had all the ingredients to make spaghetti and meatballs. Jordan said it could be like Lady and the Tramp. I laughed. We enjoyed our cheap homemade dinner over a $15 bottle of Merlot (when you're in college, $15 wine is fancy) and watched the Aggies lose to Baylor while it rained and poured outside. After deciding our pallets were not refined enough for the expensive wine I had bought, we decided to cork the bottle and head to the movie theater. I never thought I would see the movie "He's just not that into you", but I did and, hold your breath...I liked it. It was cute.

My Valentine's day was not elaborate nor flashy or filled with fancy things. We didn't dine at an expensive restaurant, we had microwaved meatballs covered with Ragu sauce. We didn't exchange cologne or jewelry, we gave chocolate and kisses. We didn't have a candlelit lit dinner in the park, we watched it rain from the couch while watching basketball. We didn't do anything out of the ordinary, we did what we do on any given Saturday night and that's what I enjoyed the most, because I don't just care about him on Valentine's day, I love him every day.