Happy Valentine’s Day
February 14th, 2007 by 
Alica
Today is Valentine’s Day. According to the History Channel’s Web site, www.history.com, this is the origin of the holiday:
“There are many opinons as to who was the original Valentine, with the most popular theory that it was a clergyman who was executed for secretly marrying couples in ancient Rome. In any event, in 496 A.D., Pope Gelasius set aside Feb. 14 to honor St. Valentine.”
In any case, the day is now set aside for us to show our sweethearts how much they mean to us.
What special way will your honor your sweetheart? Or, maybe you have a special Valentine’s memory. Maybe today will even be your most special Valentine’s Day.
My daughter and I recently recalled the year we made a Frankenstein Valentine’s box for her school contest. The most convenient box we had at home was a round oatmeal box, which we thought was shaped a lot like Frankenstein’s monster’s head. So we painted it and added lots of gory scars to it and hot glued some strands of black yarn to the top of the head. My daughter didn’t win any prizes for her Valentine’s Day box, but her classmates liked it, especially the boys.
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February 14th, 2007 at 11:00 am
You remember that more than I do. Really? The boys liked it more? Doesn’t surprise me.
February 14th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
As I recall, Mom used to lay cards on our pillows on Valentine’s Day morning so that we’d find them when we woke up. I was just thinking about that this morning.